Agartala:Tripura chief minister Manik Saha on Thursday said BJP would take appropriate action over offensive remarks by party MLA Tafajjal Hossain against Tipra Motha Party and the tribal community, despite his subsequent apology.Saha said he was closely monitoring the situation and had discussed the matter with BJP’s party president. “Any decisions made by the party…

Kalimpong/Siliguri: Tremors from an earthquake of 4.9-magnitude on the Richter scale shook Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Siliguri, adjoining areas of north Bengal and parts of West and East Sikkim, including Gangtok, early on Thursday, around 4.30 am. No casualty or damage to properties was reported.According to National Centre for Seismology (NCS), the epicentre lay in Nepal, around…

Kolkata: Kolkata Police on Thursday filed a 350-page charge sheet in the Aug 19 Free School Street hotel fire case, in which nine people were killed. The charge sheet names property owner Bireshwar Mitra Ray, hotel operator Abu Zafar and Zafar’s wife, Saba Zafar, in whose name the lease was registered, and lists causing death…

Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday refused bail to an ISIS sympathiser from Howrah citing security concerns and holding that he did not merely “possess” such literature but was also found to be instigating youth to join “suicide squad”.Saddam Mallick alias Abdul Mallick (28) allegedly had videos “planning to kill Prime Minister Narendra Modi and…