East India

A shocking video widely shared on social media show an 80-year-old woman from Bhojpur in Bihar who suspected to have suffered brain haemorrhage had to be carried around on a plastic sack in a government hospital as no stretcher was available on Friday.

BJP MLA Biswajit Das on Tuesday returned to TMC. He had left West Bengal’s ruling party to join BJP in 2019.

Two Muslim youth, residents of Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, accused police officials of brutally beating and sexually assaulting them in a station premises last week. The duo also alleged that policemen hurled anti-Muslim slurs.

Feb. 24, 1784, was the day the Christian community in India shed its innocence, discovering its vulnerability in a land where social, religious and other identity groups jostled for power, some with notional or virtual alliances, others with armed gangs patronized by the rulers, and still others at the head of real armies.

Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira Banerjee have been summoned for questioning by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering and coal scam case, news agency PTI reported on Saturday.

A Dalit youth was killed in Nalanda district, Bihar, allegedly for demanding the 10kg rice promised to him for a day’s labour, The Telegraph reported. Upendra Ravidas, 25, of...

around 10 am Sub-inspector Somnath Das and four others of the Sonarpur police station were at his door, looking for Hossain Ali. Suraf was surprised that his 85-year-old uncle, who spent his days, staring at nothing, would be wanted by the police. Moreover, Somnath Das, in civil dress and slippers, claiming to carry a warrant, did not present the image of a police officer on duty.

On the occasion of International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples on Monday, Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren announced that all farmers of Jharkhand would henceforth be recognised as Birsa Kisan.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday accused Union Home Minister Amit Shah of orchestrating the recent attack on Abhishek Banerjee, her nephew and the party national general secretary, and other TMC activists in Tripura.

Residents of Sishujhumra are fighting, despite the local administration’s apathy, for the factory to shut down, lock, stock and barrel.

A prominent transgender activist Sumana Dhar has been shot dead by bike-borne youths near her home in Sabitri Pally in Nimta, about 16km north from the heart of Calcutta on Sunday evening.

Millat Times journalist Shahnawaz Hussain was assaulted on Monday by a doctor and staffers in Madhupura, Bihar while reporting a protest staged by patients