West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is in the middle of a controversy yet again. She lost her cool yet again and went to the extent of saying that the Barasat gangrape and murder accused are CPM workers and those protesting are CPM cadre. ...
11:58 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Kolkata: A 17-year-old girl was on Tuesday allegedly molested by her coaching center teacher in Ashok Nagar area of north 24 Parganas district in West Bengal. According to the reports, the teacher asked the girl to stay back as she needed special attention and allegedly molested her. After the incident, aggravated locals ransacked the coaching centre. The accused has been arrested. ...
11:30 PM, Jun 18, 2013
On June 13, thirteen women activists were arrested in Kolkata for protesting against violence against women near the residence of the West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee. This is a first-person account of the day's events by one of them. "Women and girls in our state are facing terrible violence and many have been killed but that does not galvanise the police and administration of West Bengal into action. Activists...
12:06 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Mamata Banerjee met the Barasat victim's family only for 5 minutes after protesters shouted slogans against her. ...
11:39 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Barasat: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is in the middle of a controversy yet again. She lost her cool yet again and went to the extent of saying that the Barasat gangrape and murder accused are CPM workers and those protesting are CPM cadre. "Why should I be sorry? They are CPI(M) workers. The people who have been apprehended are from CPI(M)," Mamata said. Shouting at a protester in...
03:45 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Kolkata: Days after the brutal gangrape and murder of a 20-year-old girl in West Bengal's Barasat district, a group of women protestors on Monday shouted anti-government slogans and forced Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to leave the grieving family's house within five minutes of her arrival there. Sources say, she felt it was a deliberate ploy to insult her. The deceased girl's family had earlier refused any kind of help from...
03:08 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Kolkata: Kolkata's Park Street rape survivor is not just picking up the pieces of her own life, but she is also giving a new meaning to the lives of many women suffering from injustice. She has now found her new calling at a women's support helpline. The 38-year-old is helping other victims of violence survive pain that she knows only too well. Struggling to make ends meet, this single mother...
12:26 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Malda: Local Bharatiya Janata Party leader Nripen Mondal was shot dead by unknown assailants in Malda district in West Bengal late Sunday night. The assailants opened fire on Mondal's car in the Habibpur police station area of the district. The BJP leader's driver was critically injured in the attack. Mondal was the Leader of the Opposition in the Habibpur Panchayat Committee and a Zila Parishad candidate for the upcoming panchayat...
12:15 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Kolkata: The West Bengal government was compensating crime against women with money and there seemed to be no rule of law in the state, former Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee alleged on Saturday. "The government wants to compensate any type of crime -- whether against women or youth -- with money. If there is a crime, the government proclaims we will give them money. This policy is actually encouraging the criminals...
01:02 AM, Jun 16, 2013
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress leader Shibu Yadav, the key accused in the attack on TV journalists in Barrackpore in West Bengal, and eight others were produced in a Kolkata court on Saturday. They were arrested from Bihar for the brutal attack on two journalists in Barrackpore last week. Yadav and two of his companions have been remanded in police custody for 12 days while the others will be in judicial custody...
09:09 PM, Jun 15, 2013
Murshidabad: The decomposed body of a 16-year-old girl was recovered from a paddy field in Murshidabad in West Bengal on Saturday morning. The Class 9 student had gone missing from her home on June 11. The family members of the girl have alleged that she was raped and murdered by a local resident, who they claim is absconding along with his family members since the Class 9 student went missing....
03:36 PM, Jun 15, 2013
Malda: Three bodies have been recovered and around 12 people were missing when a boat capsized in the river Ganga in Malda district of West Bengal on Friday. Five more bodies have reportedly been spotted by the villagers on Friday. The victims were going to an island in the Ganges for agricultural purposes. The boat carrying around 50-55 people mostly daily labourers and farmers capsized in midstream in inclement weather...
03:08 PM, Jun 15, 2013
Malda: An overcrowded boat capsized in the Ganga river in Manikchak area of Malda district in West Bengal. Around 40 people are reportedly missing and three bodies have been recovered so far. The victims were going to an island in the Ganges for agricultural purposes. Rescue operations are on with local divers and teams from the civil defence deparment. Officials said a country boat carrying around 60 passengers, mostly daily...
01:26 PM, Jun 14, 2013
Kolkata: The prime suspect in the recent attacks on two journalists from Bengali news channels in North 24 Parganas district was arrested from Bihar on Thursday, police said. Shibu Yadav was nabbed from East Champaran district, state police sources said. A state police team has reached Bihar and would move an East Champaran district court to get him on transit remand. The two journalists are still hospitalised with multiple injuries...
06:02 AM, Jun 14, 2013
New Delhi: Congress on Friday made a strong pitch for deployment of central security forces during the panchayat elections in West Bengal expressing apprehension of "huge amount of violence". Party spokesman Shakeel Ahmed said the State Election Commission, West Bengal government and the Centre should explore and ensure a free and fair and non-violent panchayat elections. Senior Congress leader and Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare AH...
02:57 AM, Jun 14, 2013
Kolkata is ashamed again after the police cracked down brutally on peaceful activists, who were detained for seeking justice for sexual assault victims in the state. ...
11:54 PM, Jun 13, 2013
Kolkata: The crime against women continues unabated in the country. In Bidhannagar, the IT hub of Kolkata, a 24-year-old differently-abled girl was raped allegedly by her neighbour on Thursday. The girl's mother has filed an FIR at the New Town Police Station. However, no arrests have been made yet. The suspect is absconding, the police say. The incident comes just hours after hundreds of women protesters were detained outside Chief...
08:58 PM, Jun 13, 2013
Hundreds of women protested outside West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's residence against the recent rape and murder of a girl in Barasat. ...
07:59 PM, Jun 13, 2013
Kolkata: Women protesters, who had gathered outside Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's residence in Kalighat to demand better security for women, were detained in Kolkata on Thursday. The protesters were a part of a woman's group called Maitrayee. They wanted to submit a memorandum to the Chief Minister with demands for better security for women. The protest was reportedly peaceful and the demonstrators were only singing and chanting slogans. Kalighat is...
11:58 AM, Jun 13, 2013
Kolkata: Observing that there is a need to "think of new measures to ensure the protection of women in rural areas", Trinamool Congress MP Saugata Roy on Wednesday said there is a marked difference in the extent of protests against crimes targeting women in rural and urban areas. Roy was comparing the country-wide protests following the brutal Delhi gangrape incident December 16, 2012 to the relatively low scale protest against...
01:45 AM, Jun 13, 2013
