Two women entrepreneurs from Calcutta have put on hold the construction of an export-oriented food processing and preservation unit on a 49-bigha plot adjacent to NH12 in Nadia’s Chakdah over al...

Chatra Police on  Wednesday said they had arrested two accused, including one from Gaya, for trying to extort Rs 5 lakhs from a tea seller. The officer-in-charge of the Pratappur Police Station ...

An employee of a spa-cum-grooming centre has been arrested for allegedly blackmailing the owner and posting her objectionable photographs on social media when she refused to pay him. Bidhannagar poli...

Hasin Jahan, the estranged wife of cricketer Mohammad Shami, had been receiving calls threatening to post her photographs and mobile number on obscene websites if she did not pay up, she complained to...

A couple have been arrested for the murder of 20-year-old Sabah Khatun, whose body was found inside a plastic bag in Ekbalpore last Thursday. Sheikh Sajid, 30, and Anjum Begum, 26, residents of Ekbal...

Revealing details of their modus operandi, the Superintendent of Police Karthik S said the accused had registered themselves as sex service providers on sites such as Oklute and Skokka. Once somebody ...

The Jangipur police in Murshidabad district have arrested three members of a gang allegedly involved in a WhatsApp racket from Rajasthan’s Bharatpur late last week. A local businessman and a ba...

A man whose surname is “Biswas” tried to extort a woman on the phone by promising her a government job and introducing himself as minister Aroop Biswas’s relative sometime last week....

Filmmaker Raj Chakraborty has lodged a police complaint alleging that two men and a woman had tried to extort money from guardians of a few children posing as employees of his production house. The t...

Simaria police in Chatra arrested an opium smuggler on Monday. The police had launched a vehicle check drive after a tip-off on the Bagra-Jabra road. Three people on two bikes tried to evade the poli...