Bengal

KOLKATA: Bengal is taking a legal "diversion" to allow juvenile offenders charged with non-heinous offences be with parents while serving out their rehabilitation programme, instead of the typical practice of keeping young delinquents at a detention centre.The state started on Sunday "a multi-stakeholder consultation" with Unicef and West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR) to...

One person died from an alleged bullet wound during clashes on Thursday in Maharashtra's Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar on Ram Navami and scores of others were injured in skirmishes in Bengal's Howrah and Gujarat's Vadodara.In Sambhajinagar, 14 cops were wounded and 13 vehicles torched as two groups indulged in stonepelting and arson. In Bengal, the trouble erupted in Howrah's Shibpur during a Ram Navami...

KOLKATA: Officers of the customs (preventive) in Kolkata on Wednesday seized the skin of a Royal Bengal tiger and a pair of black buck antlers when a smuggler was trying to cross the India-Bangladesh border near Bhatgachi village in Krishnanagar division of West Bengal. The smuggler fled leaving the articles as the officials chased him. Customs officers laid a discreet naka near Bhatgachhi village and...

KOLKATA: On Tuesday, the Calcutta high court declined to intervene in the panchayat election process in West Bengal. However, the court recognized the argument put forth by petitioner Suvendu Adhikari that there appeared to be discrepancies in the criteria being used to determine seat reservation for the 2023 local body polls.A division bench comprising Chief Justice Prakash Shrivastava and Justice R...