Rabiul Islam

Trinamool Congress has introduced a significant number of new faces in North 24 Parganas and Hooghly districts for upcoming elections. This strategic reshuffle, particularly in border constituencies like Sandeshkhali, aims to counter recent electoral setbacks and address internal party issues, signaling a fresh approach to campaigning and candidate selection.

Dhanbad police arrested Rabiul Islam alias Mota, a shooter for gangster Prince Khan, who was allegedly plotting to kill a local businessman. Police recovered a pistol and cartridges from him. Rabiul confessed to working for Khan and his involvement in last year's Shahabuddin murder case, also being wanted in other murder cases before being sent to judicial custody.

The National Investigation Agency on Tuesday night arrested 50-year-old Abdul Mannan for his alleged links with the terror outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). Mannan, a resident of Atghara, Subhasgram, in Sonarpur was arrested in connection to an ongoing investigation of radicalisation of the youth by the JMB.

Rabiul Islam, 20, a native of Assam, died in a rope-making factory at Verna on Saturday afternoon after his head was crushed in a roller machine.

The number of illegal Bangladeshi migrants to Mumbai has nearly doubled between 2011 and 2012, from 880 to 1,600.

Police officials claimed that the violence was instigated after a rumour began doing the rounds in Pirganj that a Hindu man had posted religiously offensive content on Facebook, the report said. According to the police, around 70 Hindu homes were torched during the mayhem that ensued on October 17.

The Trinamool Congress announced candidates for November 13 by-elections in six West Bengal assembly constituencies due to MLAs resigning after winning Lok Sabha seats. TMC named candidates for Sitai, Madarihat, Naihati, Haroa, Taldangra, and Medinipur, aiming to reclaim five previously held seats and Madarihat from the BJP.

Four Bangladeshi nationals arrested under the Foreigners Act were sentenced to a year's imprisonment on Thursday by a city court.

The Congress on Monday announced their candidates to three assembly seats for the bypolls scheduled on February 23, making it a four-cornered contest with Trinamool Congress, Left Front and BJP having fielded their candidates earlier.

Locals heckled a team of policemen when they went to arrest Rabiul Islam, the Congress mayor-in-council of Asansol Municipal Corporation, on Masjid Bari Lane on Monday.

The questioning of Lalu Sen, the local linkman, who is suspected to have helped the arrested three JMB members in Kolkata, has revealed that the terror outfit was involved in human trafficking. It ensured JMB leaders, like Anwar Ali Hridoy, could fund the outfit.

A day before the crucial by election in three wards of the Asansol Muncipal Corporation (AMC), Congress has received a big jolt as deputy mayor Amarnath Chatterjee joined Trinamool Congress on Thursday.

The severing of ties between Congress and Trinamool Congress has put a question mark on the future of two corporations - Siliguri and Asansol - where neither of the former allies command a majority on its own.