East India

Several students and youth organisations have called for ‘Bihar Bandh’ on Friday to protest the irregularities in Railway Recruitment Board's (RRB’s) NTPC stage 1 exam results.

2021 witnessed 10 extrajudicial killings and 19 incidents of torture and molestation by Border Security Force and Central Industrial Security Force personnel in West Bengal's Cooch Behar, Murshidabad, Nadia, and North 24 Parganas districts. The victims were Muslims, Dalits, OBCs including women and minors.

A drawing board, a few brushes, a bottle of black ink, that was all Narayan Debnath needed to ignite the imaginations of generations of young Bengali readers with comic...

“When we raised objections to the high-handed manner in which the police handled the matter, they threatened us. We retreated out of fear of being arrested," Shahanara Bibi, sister-in-law of Goni told Maktoob.

On a very ordinary morning of 6 August last year, a police constable in West Bengal, Suraf Hussain and his family were attacked by his colleagues. Their lives have taken unexpected and unpleasant turns since then.

At least 100 doctors in Patna — 96 of them from Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH) — have tested positive for coronavirus in the last two days. Only five of them are hospitalised.

In Jharkhand's Bokaro, a Muslim couple have been physically tortured the whole night in police custody.

Four days after sweeping the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) polls, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee today declared Firhad Hakim as the next Kolkata Mayor.

The Jharkhand Assembly on Tuesday passed the Prevention of Mob Violence and Mob Lynching Bill, 2021 amid opposition by the BJP legislators.

As West Bengal's Mamata Banerjee government moves on a mega coal block, tribals in a Deucha village trying to get the best deal possible.

A tribal man was beaten to death and a Muslim youth was seriously injured in two separate incidents of mobs attacks surfaced at two different locations in Jharkhand.

Eighteen people were killed on Sunday when a vehicle in a funeral procession rammed into a truck in West Bengal’s Nadia district.