A year on, the sleepy hamlet of Bahalnagar off NH12 in Sagardighi wears a forlorn look. The place, where mainly Muslim families live, was home to five migrant labourers who were gunned down by militan...

A deputy superintendent of Jammu and Kashmir Police and two militants, who were detained from a car in south Kashmir, have been arrested, officials said on Sunday.Davinder Singh, who is presently post...

Ali Asgar Sheikh returned home from Kashmir on Tuesday but isn’t sure what is more at threat: his life or that of his son’s.The mason is restless thinking how he will treat four-year-old son Rejau...

The Mamata Banerjee government has decided to bring the 133 labourers who returned from Kashmir on Monday under a scheme meant to help those who had lost jobs in the wake of demonetisation.The Samarth...

Hundreds of workers from Bengal are now in a mad rush to return from Jammu and Kashmir out of panic triggered by Tuesday’s Kulgam carnage. Labour-contractors and sources in several south Bengal dist...

Babu Sarkar, nephew of Najem Sarkar, another of the labourers, said: “We have heard that the militants don’t spare those who shield their targets. It took a lot for the people of Katarsu to help o...

Roshanara Biwi, 29, sat on the floor of her hut on Wednesday morning clutching her children. “I am a widow now. What will happen to my children,” she cried, distraught.Her husband Kamruddin Sheikh...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has held the Narendra Modi government responsible for the killings of five Murshidabad labourers, pointing out that “there are no political activities in Kashmir and t...

Four villages in Murshidabad’s Sagardighi have started a trial run of an ambitious agricultural project that, if successful, will ensure employment for thousands of skilled youths. Local body functi...

A young deputy superintendent of police who had given up two comfortable desk jobs and focused on counter-insurgency operations was killed on Sunday in a gunfight with a Jaish-e-Mohammad squad in sout...