East India

The West Bengal government has decided to appoint CM Banerjee as the Chancellor of all state-run universities, replacing the Governor.

“I think this is because of our Muslim identity,” laments Allahrakha Ismail Thimar, a 45-year-old local fisherman. For more than a hundred years, a 600-member Muslim community in Gujarat...

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday announced that an all-party meet on the caste census could be held as early as this week.

As many as 33 have people died in separate incidents in 16 districts of Bihar after thunderstorm accompanied with heavy rains and lightning disrupted normal life.

Aminal Rescuers in Gujarat are picking up dozens of exhausted and dehydrated birds dropping every day as a scorching heatwave dries out water sources in Ahmedabad, reports Reuters. Doctors in...

Muslims should be set ablaze just as Hindus burn Ravana effigies during the festival of Dussehra, said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Bihar MLA Haribhushan Thakur Bachaul in a latest episode of hate speech.

The Jharkhand High Court on Friday granted bail to Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav in the Rs 139.35-crore Doranda treasury case related to the fodder scam.

The Calcutta High Court Friday handed over the investigation into the murder of the deputy gram pradhan and Trinamool Congress politician Bhadu Sheikh, which allegedly sparked retaliatory violence and eight other killings in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Educator and poet Saira Shah Halim is the CPM candidate from the Ballygunge Assembly constituency in West Bengal.

The Chhattisgarh government on Wednesday postponed a block-level Ramayana recitation competition in Sukma district after tribal outfit, Sarva Adivasi Samaj wrote to the Governor protesting against it. According to...

Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari and the BJP’s Chief Whip Manoj Tigga and three legislators of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal were suspended by the Speaker Monday until the next session of the Assembly after members of the ruling Trinamool Congress and BJP scuffled inside the House over the violence in Birbhum’s Bogtui village.

The Calcutta High Court on Friday ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the killings in Birbhum’s Bogtui village, where eight people were burnt alive earlier this week.