Dhulagarh

Mamata Banerjee's ruling Trinamool Congress made short work of bye-elections in West Bengal today, snatching the Noapara Assembly seat from the Congress and retaining the Uluberia parliamentary constituency. The BJP has kept up its recent good run in the state and is second in both. The Congress, celebrating a comeback in Rajasthan, is in the deepe...

Schools across Bengal celebrated the traditional festival of Saraswati Puja this year. But the recent communal tensions in Dhulagarh cast its shadow on Tehatta high school, where the puja became a matter of contention between students of two communities. After the school refused to allow a function on the Prophet's birthday, known as Nabi Diwas, a ...

The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a petition seeking CBI probe into the alleged two-day communal riots in West Bengal's Dhulagarh last month.A bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and P C Pant said the matter could be raised before the Calcutta High Court.

After Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee dismissed reports about communal trouble at Dhulagarh, the West Bengal police has said there was a problem between two groups, 58 people have been arrested and forces have been deployed to control the situation. One of those arrested by the police is a man called Saddam, who locals say is a crude bomb-maker who...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today denied any incident of rioting at Dhulagarh in Howrah district and alleged that "wrong information" was being given on social media.

Asked about the violence in Dhulagarh, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had one reply: "Nothing has happened there".

Two full weeks after a communal flare up at Dhulagarh, 35 km from Kolkata, a huge police contingent on the main road is restricting entry into the area. Section 144 or prohibitory orders are in place, disallowing the entry of political parties. On Tuesday, a contingent from the Left parties was stopped from entering the area.

A team of BJP leaders will visit Dhulagarh in West Bengal's Howrah district today after communal tension flared in the area last week. Members of the team will visit the area, meet affected people and prepare a report and send it to the centre.

A three-MP delegation of BJP will visit Dhulagarh in West Bengal tomorrow to look into incidents of violence, the party said today claiming that its supporters and members of a particular community have been targeted.

Just an hour before Mamata Banerjee drove past Dhulagarh on Wednesday evening, she broke her silence on the communal tensions in the area and the largescale looting and arson that took place there last week. And it was a scathing, no holds barred attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

In West Bengal, Dhulagarh, about 35 kilometres from Kolkata, is tense for over a week after clashes erupted over a procession to mark the birth anniversary of the Holy Prophet.

Mamata Banerjee's ruling Trinamool Congress made short work of bye-elections in West Bengal today, snatching the Noapara Assembly seat from the Congress and retaining the Uluberia parliamentary constituency. The BJP has kept up its recent good run in the state and is second in both. The Congress, celebrating a comeback in Rajasthan, is in the deepe...

Schools across Bengal celebrated the traditional festival of Saraswati Puja this year. But the recent communal tensions in Dhulagarh cast its shadow on Tehatta high school, where the puja became a matter of contention between students of two communities. After the school refused to allow a function on the Prophet's birthday, known as Nabi Diwas, a ...

The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a petition seeking CBI probe into the alleged two-day communal riots in West Bengal's Dhulagarh last month.A bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and P C Pant said the matter could be raised before the Calcutta High Court.

After Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee dismissed reports about communal trouble at Dhulagarh, the West Bengal police has said there was a problem between two groups, 58 people have been arrested and forces have been deployed to control the situation. One of those arrested by the police is a man called Saddam, who locals say is a crude bomb-maker who...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today denied any incident of rioting at Dhulagarh in Howrah district and alleged that "wrong information" was being given on social media.

Asked about the violence in Dhulagarh, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had one reply: "Nothing has happened there".

Two full weeks after a communal flare up at Dhulagarh, 35 km from Kolkata, a huge police contingent on the main road is restricting entry into the area. Section 144 or prohibitory orders are in place, disallowing the entry of political parties. On Tuesday, a contingent from the Left parties was stopped from entering the area.

A team of BJP leaders will visit Dhulagarh in West Bengal's Howrah district today after communal tension flared in the area last week. Members of the team will visit the area, meet affected people and prepare a report and send it to the centre.

A three-MP delegation of BJP will visit Dhulagarh in West Bengal tomorrow to look into incidents of violence, the party said today claiming that its supporters and members of a particular community have been targeted.

Just an hour before Mamata Banerjee drove past Dhulagarh on Wednesday evening, she broke her silence on the communal tensions in the area and the largescale looting and arson that took place there last week. And it was a scathing, no holds barred attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

In West Bengal, Dhulagarh, about 35 kilometres from Kolkata, is tense for over a week after clashes erupted over a procession to mark the birth anniversary of the Holy Prophet.