Birbhum

West Bengal: Violent protests in Shantiniketan after child's decapitated body found on roof

The family members of the child have alleged that he was killed by the people from whose roof the body was recovered. According to local media, the dead body was recovered from that roof at noon on Tuesday

West Bengal Panchayat Polls: TMC may not give tickets to 'tainted' leaders in a bid to clean up image

The TMC has started a major rectification drive after two senior leaders former minister Partha Chatterjee and party's Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal were arrested in connection with schools jobs scam and a cattle smuggling case respectively

Cattle smuggling scam: CBI likely to question TMC leader Anubrata Mondal at Asansol jail

The CBI has arrested the TMC Birbhum district president for not cooperating with the central agency in its probe into the alleged cattle smuggling scam

West Bengal: Nine dead as autorickshaw rams into bus in Birbum district

Among the nine dead in the three-wheeler, eight were women and the ninth victim was its driver. The women were returning home from a paddy field

Birbhum massacre: Woman succumbs to burn injuries; toll rises to 10

Miscreants had thrown petrol bombs and set ablaze some 10 houses on fire in Bogtui village in the early hours of 20 March

Fact finding team from Trinamool Congress to visit Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh

The decision to send the fact-finding team to Jahangirpuri and Prayagraj comes days after BJP sent similar teams to Bogtui in Birbhum where nine people were burnt alive, and to Hanshkhali in Nadia where a minor girl died after she was allegedly gang-raped

Deucha Panchami Coal Mine: Mamata Banerjee on wrong side of anti-land acquisition agitation as BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari corners her

Farmers of Deucha-Panchami coal mine region in West Bengal’s Birbhum –- a lot of them tribal families -– have alleged they are being forced by administration to part with their land as BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari supports demand to scrap the project

Birbhum killings: Four arrested from Mumbai brought to Kolkata by CBI

These were the first arrests made by the central agency after taking over the probe

Birbhum killings: CBI makes first arrests in case, nabs four suspects from Mumbai

Bappa SK, Sabu SK, Taj Mohammad and Serajul SK who had escaped to Mumbai from Bogtui after the violence were sheltered by people close to them, the agency said

Mamata Banerjee forgets West Bengal leads in political murders, ahead of UP, Gujarat, MP, Bihar

As per crime statistics maintained by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), West Bengal accounts for the maximum number of people killed under political murders