A nine year-old girl named Tamanna Khatun was killed in her own verandah by a crude bomb hurled at her house in the Molandi area of Kaliganj’s Barachandgarh village in West Bengal by participants of TMC’s victory procession celebrating the bypoll results on Monday.
Around 40 people have been arrested after communal clashes broke out between members of the Hindu and Muslim communities in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district on Wednesday, following a dispute over a temporary shop in the Rabindranagar area of Maheshtala, on the outskirts of Kolkata.
At least 14 people were killed in a fire at a hotel in central Kolkata on Tuesday night, including one person who died after jumping off the terrace in an attempt to escape the blaze.
The screening of Ritwik Ghatak’s Amar Lenin and Komal Gandhar at a Kolkata government school on February 10 was allegedly canceled due to objections from local Trinamool Congress supporters over the films’ political themes.
More than five months after the heinous rape and murder of a 31-year-old female postgraduate trainee doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata—a crime that sparked relentless protests and global outrage—a Sealdah sessions court on January 20 sentenced Kolkata Police civic volunteer Sanjay Roy, the sole convict, to rigorous life imprisonment until death.