A man has been arrested from Nadia district for allegedly using chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s speeches to create memes that police said could cause communal tension and disturb peace in socie...

“He is seen in a video footage holding a bamboo stick and running with the crowd that was attacking the assistant commissioner,” said the officer. Till now, six men have been arrested for...

A woman has complained against the officers of an all-women police station in Barasat that they did not take any action on her complaint of gang-rape for close to a fortnight. Action was finally take...

CPM state secretary Mohammad Salim has alleged that family members of murdered student Atanu Dey had visited chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s residence five times seeking help to locate their mi...

In three years from 2019, 22,928 people were ‘kidnapped’ from West Bengal. Of them, 4,740 were still missing at the end of 2021. According to numbers available with the National Crim...

When The Telegraph asked the deputy commissioner (detective department) of the Bidhannagar commissionerate, Biswajit Ghosh, on Wednesday why the police were not probing allegations that a section of B...

Chowdhury ran a tyre repairing shop in the area and worked as a broker for used motorcycles, several residents told this newspaper. Samir Mondal, a resident of the area, said they still could no...

“After we narrated the entire incident to the cops, they told us that Atanu had possibly fallen short of cash (needed to buy the bike) and was doing this to pressure us to give him more money. T...

West Bengal environment minister Manas Bhuiya on Tuesday asked the West Bengal State Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) to be stringent with noise violators, especially those who play high-pitched music ...

She alleged that the police did not take their complaint seriously and did nothing to save the children. The police said they treated complaint “sensitively”, suspecting it to be a kidnap...