One person was killed and 19 others were injured during a clash in Burdwan district between followers of the ruling Trinamool Congress and the Opposition CPI(M), police said on Saturday.

The incident

The son of a former Mayor in Burdwan district, who worked as a school contractor, was on Thursday shot dead by unidentified assailants this morning, police said.

Arpan Mukherjee, 50, was shot at poi

Building the pitch for next year's panchayat elections in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced several pro-farmer measures including expansion of Kisan Credit Card cover an

Two persons were arrested in connection with the rape of a woman and looting of passengers of a local train at Katwa on February 25, police said.

Nayan Seikh and Farid Seikh, accused of raping the wo

A woman was allegedly gangraped when she resisted dacoits looting passengers of a local train in West Bengal's Burdwan district.

The dacoits, who were posing as passengers, held the guard of the Ahme

Hundreds of commuters had a close shave on Thursday when an alert contract labourer found around 150 pandrol clips missing from railway tracks and alerted motorman of a Katwa-bound local near Balgona

Three journalists were today beaten up allegedly by CPI(M) supporters after blocking their car at Dayalpur under Galsi assembly constituency in Burdwan district.

According to the FIR lodged by the