Topic: West bengal
Anis Khan’s murder: Bengal student leader earlier told police his “life is in danger”
Anis Khan (28), a student leader who was an active of student protests in Aliah University, an autonomous state government university in New Town, West Bengal was thrown off the roof of his house and killed at 1am in Amta, on February 19, Saturday.
Civic bodies polls in West Bengal: 24% drop in BJP vote share
The results of four municipal corporations in West Bengal showed a decline of around 24 per cent BJP votes in comparison to what the saffron party had got in these uran areas in the Assembly polls barely eight months ago.
Mamata Banerjee blocks governor on Twitter after “gas chamber” remark
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee blocked the governor Jagdeep Dhankhar from her Twitter account on Monday, a day after he said the state...
Killings, molestations; Rights group reports wave of abuses by BSF in West Bengal
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.
Custodial death: 40 days on, WB Muslim man’s family awaits justice
“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.
Beaten and hunted by colleagues: Ordeal of a Muslim cop in West Bengal
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.
