A forest department team reached the spot and used crackers to make the elephant come out of the pond. Acting out of fear, it ran through Barhmoriya, reaching Patel’s house in Banaso, eventually...

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An elderly man and his family, including two Covid patients, were beaten up for allegedly refusing to pay goons at Panihati in North 24-Parganas on Monday night. The elderly man’s wife and youn...

A lone assailant is on the run in Birmingham after stabbing eight people, one of them fatally, at four separate locations over a two-hour period early on Sunday in what police described as “a ma...

A fisherman who was part of a team that had ventured inside the Sunderbans forests to catch crabs died after being attacked by a tiger while he was cooking on the bank of a creek on Sunday morning, a ...

Several fishermen from North and South 24-Parganas, who lived off the fish netted from rivers and creeks adjacent to the Sunderbans, are migrating to Kerala and Tamil Nadu, driven by tiger attacks and...

A team of researchers from Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, in collaboration with scientists from University of Pardubice, Czech Republic, is working towards developing indigenous algorithms ...

A former ration dealer walked into the office of the Cooch Behar district food controller and splashed acid on him on Thursday afternoon to avenge an old legal setback. Food controller Dawa Wangel La...

A man has been arrested for allegedly trying to kill his wife’s colleague who works as a Group D employee at a private cancer hospital in Nayabad, off EM Bypass, on Saturday evening. Police sai...

A middle-aged man from Ludhiana in Punjab was injured after a gun an associate was holding allegedly went off inside a guest house in Salt Lake’s BJ Block late on Sunday, police said. Manpreet ...