The police arrested two persons in connection with the rape of a woman after dragging her out of a train near Katwa in Burdwan district, puncturing holes in chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s claim that the entire incident was “fabricated” to defame her government.

The West Bengal government has started the process to take back the excess land from the industrialists.

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday assured the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) leadership that the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) would come into force in 10 to 12 days.

Akash Banerjee, nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, and three of his associates who spent a day in judicial custody for assaulting a traffic sergeant were on Friday given bail by a c

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Akash Banerjee, 21, was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly assaulting an on-duty traffic police officer in the Kidderpore area of Kolkata. Special police commissioner Sivaji Ghosh claimed the arrest was made on the “instructions of the chief minister”.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Akash Banerjee, 21, was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly assaulting an on-duty traffic police officer in the Kidderpore area of Kolkata. Special police commissioner Sivaji Ghosh claimed the arrest was made on the “instructions of the chief minister”.

In what can be said as a scene straight from a Bollywood pot-boiler, a special task force (STF) team of the Kolkata police, posing as “kidnappers”, bundled a Maoist suspect into a car and whisked him away from the crowded College Street area as part of their anti-naxal operation across the city on Wednesday.

A Kolkata court rejected the bail pleas of Akash Banerjee, nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and his three associates and sent all the four to judicial custody till March 2.

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West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s cracking of whip paid off: the attendance of government employees at the Writers’ Buildings was around 84 per cent. On normal days, the attendance does not go beyond 70 per cent.

The 24-hour nationwide strike on Tuesday forced another holiday on West Bengal. Except some stray incidents, the day went off largely peacefully. The Left Front which extended its support to the strike called by the Central trade unions, claimed that the shutdown was total in the state.