Ghosh reiterated the allegations outside the Alipore court where he was brought for hearing on Thursday morning. “I am being pressurised to name Abhishek Banerjee. I have informed the court about this in writing,” he claimed.

TMC state general secretary Kunal Ghosh, on the other hand, said: “During Ram Navami, the BJP, VHP and their affiliates created problems by defying police directives.

The TMC, on the other hand, accused the BJP of fomenting trouble during the Ram Navami celebrations and said that their leaders and workers were behaving like "good boys" on Hanuman Jayanti.

West Bengal Governor spoke with police officers and central paramilitary force personnel and enquired about the security arrangements. He also interacted with common people.

The High Court also issued guidelines to West Bengal Police on security arrangements for Thursday's festival.

Jha's aide Brathin Mukherjee, who sustained injuries in the firing, is still critical. Locals claimed that four-five rounds were fired in the shootout. Raju was sitting on the seat next to the driver's.

Violence erupted in Shibpur in Howrah district on Thursday evening during Ram Navami processions. Since then, clashes have taken place in several parts of the state, including Uttar Dinajpur, and now in Hooghly.

The Congress on Tuesday staged a demonstration at Raj Bhavan in Kolkata and burned an effigy of Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim against the recent hike in parking fees by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC). Party workers raised slogans and held placards, criticising Hakim for the hike and took out a rally from Paradise Cinema to […]

Residents on both sides of the railway gate said they were shaken by Monday night's clash.

The state CID is probing the violence involving incidents of clashes, arson and ransacking during the Ram Navami festivities.

Talking to The Indian Express over phone, Budu, a native of Tingupakhan, a hillside village, said they walked most of the time while they also hitchhiked in between. Moved by their plight, some good Samaritans also offered them food on the way.

This year, the number of female candidates has seen a nearly 50 per cent increase while the number of male candidates has gone up by 34 per cent.

Speaking to mediapersons in Kolkata, Adhikari claimed that Bose was yet to play an active role in the state's affairs like his predecessors. “

Clashes between two groups were reported during two Ram Navami processions in Hooghly district’s Rishra on Sunday. The clashes came two days after similar violence was reported in Shibpur and Kazipara areas of Howrah on Thursday and Friday.

The BJP, on the other hand, accused the chief minister of “engineering” the recent violence in the state and demanded an NIA probe in the incidents.

Repeated calls and messages to Amit P Javalgi, Commissioner, Chandannagar police commissionerate, went unanswered.

West Bengal administration under scrutiny for not being adequately prepared given that the state had also seen violence on Ram Navami last year

In a statement, Governor C V Ananda Bose said the state is determined to put an end to the violence and added “mobocracy cannot derail democracy”.

WB Commission for Protection of Child Rights chairperson Sudeshna Roy said, “We are here to help NCPCR, but they do not want our cooperation. They felt that we were trying to hide something which is not true.”

“We will observe a pen-down strike on April 6. And a two-day protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi on April 10-11,” said Joint Forum of State Government Employees member Bhaskar Ghosh

Addressing a press conference at the state secretariat, Dwivedi said, "On the first day of the camp, total 5 lakh 53 thousand and 185 people turned up to avail our services.

Violent scenes of ransacking and arson were witnessed during a Ram Navami procession in some area of Howrah on Thursday. Similar incidents of violence were also reported from the district on Friday.

The first video purportedly shows a youth sporting a saffron head band atop a DJ vehicle dancing while holding a handgun during what appears to be a Ram Navami procession. The second video shows a youth in a yellow kurta dancing near a DJ vehicle while brandishing a handgun.

On Saturday morning, normalcy slowly returned to the area as some local shopkeepers opened their shops. People also left their homes for work.