Noor Hossain

The owner of a firework unit in West Bengal, where an explosion killed four persons, has been arrested, police said on Saturday.

At least two of the eight persons arrested on Saturday for involvement in extortion and loot at the city’s biggest ongoing infrastructure project have turned out to be from Bangladesh. The police have not ruled out the possibility of some of the other six, too, turning out to be Bangladeshi nationals staying here on forged documents.

A runaway couple, with just a few thousand rupees in hand, who had rented a house in Behala, apparently killed themselves two days after moving into the Becharam Chatterjee Road address. Though no suicide note was found, cops suspect that it was a suicide pact.

After Digha it's Barrackpore.aAfter Digha it's Barrackpore. A day after an undertrial was snatched away from police lock up, another undertrial escaped from the Barrackpore special narcotic court premises on Thursday while he was taken to the Barrackpore sub-jail from the court lock up.

Bangladesh's interim government, led by Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus, has prohibited the Awami League from holding a planned rally, denouncing the party as "fascist." The government alleges the Awami League's involvement in violence and disruption, particularly citing the student wing's role in the recent unrest.

NIT Silchar has suspended five Bangladeshi students following a violent clash and drug possession allegations. Director Dilipkumar Baidya confirmed the students were found with cannabis and involved in a hostel altercation where sharp weapons were used, injuring two. The suspended students face repatriation, expulsion from hostels, and a one-year ban from classes.

Sudarshan Raghavan, chief editor-Africa, Washington Post, reports from some of the world's most dreaded conflict zones.

Three Myanmar nationals have been arrested here in connection with the Burdwan blast, as India and Bangladesh stepped up the hunt for the conspirators along their borders to nab over 100 militants of the outlawed JMB.