Once, when I thought of child sacrifice, I thought of ancient shibboleths. In Aeschylus, Agamemnon lures his daughter, Iphigenia, to a spot she thinks is for her wedding as the chorus urges, “Ho...

Bike-borne youths gunned down Sumana Dhar, a transgender person, when she was about to step into her house in Sabitri Pally in Nimta, about 16km north from the heart of Calcutta, on Sunday evening. S...

A group of armed burglars held three employees of a tea estate at gunpoint on the outskirts of Siliguri on Thursday afternoon and decamped with around Rs 26 lakh that was to be disbursed as wages amon...

Miscreants attacked two TMC activists and opened fire in the air outside one of the ruling party's offices in the northern outskirts of Calcutta, triggering panic in the area, a police officer sai...

The attackers sped away towards Sonari, triggering a ruckus in the posh locality. Pintu, a resident of Sonari Gwala Bustee, then went to Bistupur police station and reported the attack.  Pintu, ...

A truck driver was seriously injured on Wednesday night when three robbers shot at him near a forest stretch along NH-33 in Dhalbhumgarh in Ghatshila sub-division, as he refused to hand over his belon...

Jamshedpur Police arrested two persons on Tuesday involved in the gun attack  on the owner of Chandra Jewellers Ganesh Chandra, one of them being the victim’s son-in-law. Those arrested we...

A jewellery shop owner was grievously injured when two bike-riding persons shot at him at Uliyan in the Kadma Police Station area late on Saturday night when he was closing the store. Ganesh Chandra ...

A 42-year-old real estate agent was shot dead by two unidentified bike-borne criminals near Azadnagar thana in Mango on Tuesday afternoon. The murdered victim, identified as Mohammad Danish was retur...

A passerby was accidentally injured in a gun attack on Wednesday when a bullet missed its target, meant to be fired at the BJP mandal chief Pratappur in Chatra by a youth.The victim was immediately ru...