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West Bengal

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West Bengal: 1.6 kg jewellery, 90 coins and a wrist watch removed from one Runi Khatun’s stomach

OpIndia Staff - 25 July, 2019

Runi Khatun, said to be mentally unstable by her family, has been swallowing coins, metals and jewellery for weeks.

Crime

West Bengal: Bombs hurled, bullets fired at the residence of Barrackpore BJP MP Arjun Singh

OpIndia Staff - 25 July, 2019

The miscreants hurled two country-made bombs and fired bullets outside Arjun Singh's residence in North 24 Parganas.

Politics

Mamata Banerjee Zindabad: TMC workers attack professor and students for not chanting pro-Mamata slogans

OpIndia Staff - 25 July, 2019

The shocking incident took place on a day the Trinamul rallied support behind a section of activists for writing an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleging intolerance across the country.

Crime

Kolkata: 37-year-old Asgar Ali arrested for rape and murder of a five-year-old girl

OpIndia Staff - 22 July, 2019

The villagers suspected Ali's involvement in the child's disappearance since she was last seen with him.

News Reports

Irony: Mamata Banerjee observes Shahid Dibas for 1993 police firing, while the then Home Secretary is now a TMC MP

OpIndia Staff - 21 July, 2019

Under Mamata Banerjee, Manish Gupta continues to be an MP of the Rajya Sabha under the TMC, who was the home secretary when the incident happened

News Reports

Class nine student beaten by senior students for protesting ‘Allah Hu Akbar’ during National Anthem singing in school

OpIndia Staff - 21 July, 2019

When a Hindu student protested allah hu akbar chants during national anthem in school, he was badly thrashed by Muslim students

News Reports

BJP’s answer to Trinamool’s glamour quotient: Parno Mittra along with 11 other celebrities join the party

OpIndia Staff - 20 July, 2019

The list of celebrities to join the BJP includes Parno Mittra, Rishi Kaushik, Kanchana Moitra, Rupanjana Mitra and Biswajit Ganguly.

News Reports

West Bengal: ABVP student severely injured in bomb blast done allegedly by TMC goons, hospitalised in critical condition

OpIndia Staff - 20 July, 2019

An ABVP activist was gravely injured after a bomb blast at Kalyani University allegedly perpetrated by goons associated with the Trinamool Congress (TMC)

News Reports

“Do a bigger agitation where at least 20 people are killed in police firing”, TMC leader Subrata Mukherjee mocks BJP’s protests

OpIndia Staff - 18 July, 2019

Subrata Mukherjee trivialises deaths of political protestors in West Bengal saying BJP workers should mount bigger agitations where 20 people are killed

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