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Detained as Bangladeshis, Bengal workers now ‘scared’ to leave state
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Detained as Bangladeshis, Bengal workers now ‘scared’ to leave state

“We spent a night at a detention camp. Somehow, through the intervention of our state’s police, we were released. I will never go to work in Assam again. I have worked in different parts of India but never faced such a situation.”Sahbaz Hashmi (35), from Kuligram in Murshidabad, is among a large number of migrant workers from Bengal who have returned home after being detained by authorities in Gujarat and Assam, and allegedly harassed by local residents in Odisha, amid a crackdown on illegal Bangladeshis. So much so, that top officials in the West Bengal government and police have now reached out to their counterparts for help. “There have been many such cases where migrant workers of Bengal are being targeted in different states. Officers in the police and administrative levels of the sta...
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‘We were herded like cattle by BSF towards Bangladesh in the dark…won’t go to Mumbai’: Bengal residents labelled as ‘illegal immigrants’
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‘We were herded like cattle by BSF towards Bangladesh in the dark…won’t go to Mumbai’: Bengal residents labelled as ‘illegal immigrants’

“We were herded like cattle. Wielding batons, the BSF jawans drove us towards the border with Bangladesh and asked us not to return. We ran towards Bangladesh. It was completely dark,” said Nazimuddin Mondal, a resident of Hariharpara in Murshidabad district of West Bengal, who was picked up by Maharashtra Police on suspicion of being illegal immigrants and pushed into Bangladesh in the wee hours of June 14.Nazimuddin and six others — Mehbub Sheikh of Bhagabangola in Murshidabad, Minaraul Sheikh of Beldanga in Murshidabad, Shamim Khan of Hariharpara in Murshidabad, Mostafa Kamal Sheikh of Monteshwar in Purba Bardhaman and Fazer Sheikh and his wife Taslima of Bagda in North 24 Parganas – were brought back from Bangladesh after the TMC government in West Bengal intervened and asked the Centr...
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Held in Mumbai, deported by BSF, Bengal couple returns home from Bangladesh
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Held in Mumbai, deported by BSF, Bengal couple returns home from Bangladesh

Kolkata: The West Bengal police have helped a couple from the state to return home days after they were declared illegal Bangladeshi immigrants by Maharashtra police and deported to the neighbouring country by the Border Security Force (BSF), police officials said. The couple were released by the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Monday. (Representational image) “Fazal Mondal, a migrant worker, and his wife Taslima were released by the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Monday. We took them home safely,” Ganesh Bain, officer-in-charge of North 24 Parganas district’s Bagdah police station, told HT. Fazal Mondal, a resident of Hariharpur village in Bagdah, went to Karnataka in 2024 with his wife in search of livelihood and the couple moved to the Naya Nagar area in Mumbai five mont...
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‘Huge business… has come to a halt’: Traders hit by Delhi’s curbs on import of readymade garments from Bangladesh
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‘Huge business… has come to a halt’: Traders hit by Delhi’s curbs on import of readymade garments from Bangladesh

Bangladesh’s readymade garment industry, a major foreign exchange earner and employer, faces uncertainty after India imposed new restrictions, impacting consignments worth thousands of crores that previously passed through Petrapole, the country’s largest land port.This year on May 17 India imposed restrictions on the import of several items through landports: these include readymade garments, fruits and fruit-flavoured carbonated drinks, cotton and cotton yarn waste, plastic and PVC finished goods, and wooden furniture, through land ports. According to an official notification, readymade garments are now allowed only through sea ports in Kolkata and Mumbai. The other restricted items are no longer permitted through land customs stations or check posts in Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram...
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4 Bangladeshi nationals ‘staying illegally in India for 12 years’ caught in Delhi, sent to deportation centre
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4 Bangladeshi nationals ‘staying illegally in India for 12 years’ caught in Delhi, sent to deportation centre

In a crackdown on illegal immigration, the Delhi Police on Monday apprehended four Bangladeshi nationals who had allegedly been staying in India illegally for the past 12 years. The police identified the alleged illegal immigrants as Mohammad Asad Ali, 44, his wife Nasima Begum, 40, their son Mohammad Naim Khan, 18, and their 13-year-old daughter. They were residents of Farooq Bazar Ajwatari in Phulbari in Bangladesh’s Kurigram district, the police added. According to the Anti-Auto Theft Squad (AATS) of South West District, Delhi, acting on a tip-off about suspected illegal immigrants in the Delhi Cantt area, a team under the leadership of Police Inspector Ram Kumar, supervised by Assistant Commissioner of Police Ranvir Singh, approached the suspects. Story continues below this ad ...
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PM Modi to visit poll-bound West Bengal on May 29, Amit Shah to follow
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PM Modi to visit poll-bound West Bengal on May 29, Amit Shah to follow

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit poll-bound West Bengal on May 29 and address a public meeting at Alipurduar, sources said. This will be PM Modi’s first visit to the state, where Assembly elections are scheduled to be held next year, after Operation Sindoor. Union Home Minister Amit Shah will also visit West Bengal later this month and is likely to hold several meetings on June 1, sources added. PM Modi will reportedly arrive in West Bengal from Sikkim and hold a public and administrative meeting at Alipurduar. Sources said that the administrative meeting is over the 22 km strategic ‘Chicken’s Neck’ corridor that connects the northeastern states with the rest of India. Alipurduar is located near the corridor. Story continues below this ad After the meetings, PM Modi...
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Bengal: In case of ‘Pakistan national’ who ‘made fake Indian passports’, ED seeks 5 more days of custody
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Bengal: In case of ‘Pakistan national’ who ‘made fake Indian passports’, ED seeks 5 more days of custody

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday sought an additional five-day custody of Ahammed Hossain Azad (53), initially arrested in a fake passport case as an alleged Bangladeshi national, but later allegedly found to be a Pakistani national. Azad was arrested on April 15 from Birati, North 24 Parganas and produced before Chief Judge Sukumar Ray of the City Sessions Court. The ED’s counsel stated on Thursday, “We have enough evidence that shows that Azad has connections with Pakistan and the agency would like to interrogate the accused further in custody.” Azad’s counsel said, “The accused has been in custody for a month. The liberty of my client is being curtailed. Last time the ED sought custody, (they) questioned him for only one day. We pray for judicial custody.” Story continu...
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ICC Women’s ODI World Cup qualifiers: How Hayley Matthews-led West Indies missed out on WC berth by the barest of margins
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ICC Women’s ODI World Cup qualifiers: How Hayley Matthews-led West Indies missed out on WC berth by the barest of margins

How many times will you see a batter break down in tears after hitting a six to win a match, reaching 168 in 10.5 overs in a One Day International, no less? Stafanie Taylor, a former T20 World Cup-winning captain for West Indies, timed a lofted straight drive so well off Phannita Maya that it cleared the fielder at long-on and went for six. The match was over. West Indies had overhauled the target. But as Taylor turned toward the West Indies dugout, arms spread out, it began to sink in. Captain Hayley Matthews, among others, had her hands on her head. She slowly started walking out in tears. Taylor sank to her knees, sobbing. A win with 235 balls to spare, but it wasn’t enough, under the most bizarre of circumstances. Before the emotions came the math. Thailand had posted 166 after batting...
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‘Pattern of systemic persecution’: India slams Bangladesh’s interim govt over killing of Hindu minority leader
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‘Pattern of systemic persecution’: India slams Bangladesh’s interim govt over killing of Hindu minority leader

India Saturday condemned the abduction and killing of a Hindu leader in Bangladesh, urging the interim government – led by Muhammad Yunus – to “live up to its responsibility” of protecting all minorities in the country. The Ministry of External Affairs called the killing of Hindu minority leader Bhabesh Chandra Roy “a pattern of systematic persecution of Hindu minorities” under the interim government. In a statement on X, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said: “We have noted with distress the abduction and brutal killing of Shri Bhabesh Chandra Roy, a Hindu minority leader in Bangladesh. This killing follows a pattern of systematic persecution of Hindu minorities under the interim government even as the perpetrators of previous such events roam with impunity.” Story continues below th...
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Saif Ali Khan’s attacker used to illegally send money to family in Bangladesh: Mumbai police chargesheet
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Saif Ali Khan’s attacker used to illegally send money to family in Bangladesh: Mumbai police chargesheet

Mohammed Shariful Islam Fakir, the main accused in the Saif Ali Khan attack case, allegedly sent money to his family in Bangladesh illegally via a relative, the Mumbai police found during its investigation into the case. The Bandra police recently filed a chargesheet in the case and said that every month, Fakir would send some money to one Abdulla Alim via his manager or supervisor Amit Pandey. In his statement to the police, Pandey said Alim was Fakir’s sister’s husband, the chargesheet reveals. When the police obtained Alim’s account statement from a private bank’s branch in Bengaluru’s M G Road, they allegedly found that Indian currency was being illegally sent out of India via the said account. The police got the account placed under a ‘debit freeze’, the 1,612-page chargesheet recent...
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‘Didi is here, will protect you and your property’: Mamata Banerjee’s promise to minorities amid concerns over Waqf law
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‘Didi is here, will protect you and your property’: Mamata Banerjee’s promise to minorities amid concerns over Waqf law

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday promised to resolve the concerns of minorities and assured them of her support in the wake of the recently passed Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025.Declaring that it was her policy to allow everyone to live, Banerjee said, “If others don’t have the right to take my property, similarly I have no right to take others’ property… They say I don’t give protection for the Hindu dharma in Bengal. If I don’t, then who does? I must also give credit to minorities that they have nicely celebrated Hindus festivals also in Bengal and I am proud to say that.” She was addressing members of the Jain community during a programme organised to celebrate Navkar Mahamantra Day. Story continues below this ad “I will say one thing to minorities… ...
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