A person died and eight others were injured in two road accidents under Gazole police station limits of Malda in past 24 hours.
Around 10.45pm on Monday, an SUV with five occupants on the Gazole-Bama...
Resumption of two train services between Calcutta and Bangladesh and introduction of a third from north Bengal to Dhaka has prompted stakeholders of the tourism industry of the neighbouring country to...
The Border Security Force (BSF) deployed on the India-Bangladesh border in Cooch Behar district apprehended seven Bangladeshi nationals from two different locations on Monday while they were illegally...
Hundreds of trucks laden with around four lakh tonnes of wheat meant for export to Bangladesh have been stuck at land ports in Bengal for at least three weeks as customs authorities are allegedly refu...
By Soumya De Sarkar, Main Uddin Chisti
in Malda/Cooch Behar
Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday visited Mancachar border outpost on the Indo-Bangladesh border in Assam and reviewed security arrangements and the comprehensive integrated border management sy...
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday reviewed the situation along the Assam-Bangladesh border from the Mankachar sector of the state.
Shah, who arrived at the Kamakhya Hilltop via a chopper earlie...
Some farmers said the BSF’s current jute ban now extended up to 150 yards inside the fences.
The BSF could not be reached for comment.
The controversy comes a week after BSF constables beat up...
There are rumblings in West Bengal and Punjab over the jurisdiction of the world’s largest border guarding force, the BSF, raised in 1965 to protect the Indo-Pakistan and Indo-Bangladesh frontie...
The BSF arrested three Bangladeshi nationals in north Bengal on Tuesday for allegedly illegally entering India and later handed them to respective local police stations.
According to BSF source...
The evocative idol of Durga as a refugee being transported in a truck together with her children and her belongings is a far cry from Goddess Durga, all-powerful, astride a lion. But this is precisely...