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However, the preparation on Wednesday for conducting the raid and search operations were much more elaborate than what it was on January 5 when the attack took place.

Train services were affected in parts of north Bengal on Friday after protesters demanding for a separate Kamtapur state blocked rail tracks.

The West Bengal Police nabbed two men in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, the first arrests made after a week when an ED team was attacked in Sandeshkhali, said officials on Friday.

In a significant achievement, the West Bengal Police have arrested the most-wanted CPI(Maoist) central committee member Sabyasachi Goswami a.k.a. Kishore Da, thus foiling fresh attempts to resurrect Left wing extremism in certain pockets of the state.

According to informed sources, the crucial evidence was discovered for the first while ED officials had raided the residence of arrested middleman Ayan Sil last year in connection with the multi-crore cash-for-school-job case.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday was conducting marathon and simultaneous raid and search operations at three places in West Bengal, including the residences of a heavyweight minister and a ruling Trinamool MLA.

She told media persons that the attacks on the Central agency sleuths are actually "harming" the image of Trinamool Congress and also giving an opportunity to the opposition parties and the media to raise questions about the integrity of the party leaders.

The Enforcement Directorate has requested the Border Security Force (BSF) to heighten its surveillance as the probe agency believes that heavyweight Trinamool Congress leader Sajahan Sheikh,

In a surprising development, a counter FIR has been filed on Saturday against the Enforcement Director (ED) officials who were attacked by the locals while they attempted a raid and search operations at the residence of Trinamool Congress leader Sheikh Sajahan at Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district.

Investigation so far by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the cash-for-municipalities’ job case in West Bengal has revealed that there had been a total of 1,829 illegal recruitments against payment of money in 17 urban civic bodies in the state, sources said on Wednesday.

Two women operators from a notorious narcotics smuggling racket based out of northeastern India have been nabbed by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) at Malda Station in the northern sector of West Bengal on Friday.

After a marathon raid and search operations, the Income Tax sleuths have recovered huge unaccounted cash, gold and some crucial asset-related documents from the Trinamool Congress legislator Bayron Biswas, sources said on Thursday.

Turncoat Trinamool Congress legislator Bayron Biswas fell sick late on Wednesday during the marathon raids at his residence and offices by the Income Tax Department, which started in the morning. Biswas had to be shifted to a local hospital.

The Trinamool Congress alleged that some local goons, reportedly receiving the "backing" of both BJP and CPI(M), clubbed and killed Sheikh, as the latter was very vocal against the "anti-social activities" in the area.

After a giant overhead water tank collapsed at Burdwan railway station in West Bengal this week leaving three dead and over 30 injured, the Eastern Railways has decided to conduct health audits of all water tanks which have crossed certain years since installation in the state.

The Calcutta High Court has ruled that even married women, being a member of her paternal family, are entitled to get a state government job on compassionate grounds.

BJP legislator Shankar Ghosh said that the walkout was in protest against the suspension of the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in state Assembly Suvendu Adhikari for the entire winter session.

A 75-year-old man jumped to death from the roof of his apartment complex here on Tuesday after killing his paralysed wife. The victims were identified as Amulya Samaddar and Geeta Samaddar (60).

As the Enforcement Directorate (ED) continues their probe into the multi-crore ration distribution case in West Bengal, officials of the central agency are baffled as to how a businessman arrested in connection to the scam had access to state government log-in IDs and passwords.

According to police, the now-deceased were loading sacks full of flowers into a pick-up van on the main road at Buromala area under Kharagpur Police Station, when suddenly a cement-laden truck ran over them.

At a time when her party Trinamool Congress has stated to distance itself from her over the 'cash-for-query' controversy, Lok Sabha MP Mahua Maitra has received unexpected support from the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist).

The CBI conducted searches at the residence of West Bengal minister and Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim on Sunday in connection with the agency’s ongoing probe in the multi-crore cash-for-municipalities’ recruitment case.

The recent initiative by the West Bengal women and child development and social welfare department in association with UNICEF to roll out religious texts from different religions to spread childcare messages has received major accolades from different sections of the society.

The Calcutta High Court’ on Thursday observed that Enforcement Directorate (ED) will have the right to summon Trinamool Congress national General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee in case the investigating officials are not satisfied with the documents related to his assets and property submitted to the agency.

A child was killed and 11 people were missing in floods in the hills of Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Kurseong in north Bengal that come under the jurisdiction of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA), according to the GTA chief executive Anit Thapa.