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The torched a toy train station (left); and troops patrol a street in Darjeeling on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

Darjeeling hills on fire: Mamata Banerjee ready for talks now

She alleged that the Central government is not cooperating at the behest of the BJP leaders in the state.

9 July 2017 3:00 AM IST

GJM supporters take out a mass rally to demand for separate state Gorkhaland during a protest in Mirik near Darjeeling. (Photo: AP)

Darjeeling violence: Army redeployed in hills after mob sets police...

Two columns of the Army comprising around 100 personnel were deployed in Sonada and Darjeeling in the wake of fresh...

8 July 2017 5:21 PM IST

Mamata Banerjee said that her party will ask for judicial inquiry into incidents at Baduria and Basirhat (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

Basirhat violence: Centre fuelled unrest to impose President's rule

WB CM said the Centre has a non-cooperative attitude; the border areas are being disturbed with foreign hands having...

8 July 2017 4:22 PM IST

BJP MPs stopped from entering at violence hit Bashirhat in West Bengal (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

WB: After state BJP, MPs stopped from entering violence hit Basirhat

The leaders were then carted away to the airport in a police van, flanked by cops and their supporters alike.

8 July 2017 3:07 PM IST

Tension deepens in the Darjeeling hills after a youth was killed in police firing

Gorkhaland stir: Tension mounts after GJM supporter 'dies in police...

Hundreds of Gorkhaland supporters came out on the streets and raised slogans against 'police atrocities'.

8 July 2017 12:35 PM IST

Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

Govt wants to revive small savings: Nirmala Sitharaman

Interest rate has come down to maximum 7.6 per cent in post office schemes, a major destination of small savings.

7 July 2017 7:24 PM IST

BJP leader Rahul Sinha. (Photo: Video grab/ Youtube)

Mamata backing only one community in Bengal: BJP National Secy

Adopting communal line as government policy, the chief minister is backing only one community and ignoring the other,...

7 July 2017 5:44 PM IST

Protestors took to the street of Darjeeling in demand of a separate Gorkhaland. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

GJM takes out rallies, calls for Centre's intervention in Darjeeling

As part of the protests, activists of political parties, dressed in traditional Nepali attire, took out various rallies.

7 July 2017 2:56 PM IST

Violence erupted in Basirhat following an objectionable post on Facebook (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

Bengal violence: Security forces march through Basirhat's riot-hit...

Locals chose to stay indoors with shops, markets, schools remaining closed and the transport system badly hit.

7 July 2017 1:53 PM IST

Police arrests BJP leader Roopa Ganguly 12 km ahead of violence hit Basirhat (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

Cops stop BJP's Roopa Ganguly, Oppn leaders from visiting clash-hit...

BJP leaders Roopa Ganguly, Locket Chatterjee were arrested on their way to Basirhat.

7 July 2017 12:47 PM IST

Vikram Chatterjee and Sonika Chauhan were reportedly in a relationship.

Bengal actor Vikram Chatterjee arrested in death of model Sonika...

Police arrested Chatterjee, who was carrying charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder on his head.

7 July 2017 8:53 AM IST

A burnt vehicle seen at a road after a communal riot at Baduria in North 24 Pargana district of West Bengal (Photo: PTI)

West Bengal situation tense, but Mamata doesn't think so

Man injured in Basirhat clashes dies in hospital. Mamata sends 400 Central troops back.

7 July 2017 7:58 AM IST