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Trinamool Congress on Friday evening issued an official statement distancing itself from controversial remarks made by MP Kalyan Banerjee and MLA Madan Mitra regarding the recent gangrape case at South Calcutta Law College

A cab driver identified as Mohammad Irfan threatened a passenger for watching an Instagram reel with Hanuman Chalisa.

Japanese national Nozomu Hagihara has arrived in Varanasi as part of his 2,000-kilometre journey dribbling a football across India.

During the anti-CAA protests, Mamata Banerjee played down the assault on Railways which started in West Bengal.

West Bengal party president and union minister Sukanta Majumdar stated, "Stones rained down on vehicles just for carrying saffron flags. Windshields shattered. Chaos unleashed. This wasn't random, it was targeted violence.

The boy named Pratip Dey reportedly told the West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR) Panel in his statement on Thursday that when his uncle Prasun Dey smothered him with a pillow following the direction of his father, he pretended to be dead by holding his breath for a long time which he was able to do because of practising Yoga.

BJP’s Amit Malviya called West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s “Islamic Caliphate” after KMC scrapped Vishwakarma Puja holiday to add a holiday for Eid.

A bus going from Agartala to Kolkata was attacked in the Brahmanbaria district of Bangladesh, after which the locals chanted anti-India slogans targeting the Indian passengers of the bus.

Kolkata police have arrested a Bangladeshi national on charges of illegal entry into India and possession of forged identification documents

Dr Tapabrata Roy was arrested by the police and brought to the Maidan police station for reportedly wearing a badge that read "Justice for Abhaya" and "Pratiki Anasan (Symbolic hunger strike)."