Sweety Kumari

At the Girajpur sand ghat, a staggering 15.85 lakh cft of illegally stored sand was found, besides another 14.89 lakh cft sand at the Mollaighat sand ghat. (Image generated using AI) Birbhum district administration and police have launched a massive crackdown against illegal sand mining and stockpiling, making 32 arrests in a major multi-agency operation within the last two weeks.

The massive blockade and unrest were resolved only after the police announced the government had taken note of the incident. (File Photo) Violent protests erupted at Baruipur in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district on Sunday morning after a 12-year-old girl missing since the previous afternoon was found dead in a pond. An angry mob lynched a local man suspected of being involved in the crime. The girl’s family alleged that she was raped and murdered before being dumped in the pond.

A bust of Jana Sangh leader Syama Prasad Mookerjee was vandalised in Kolkata in 2018 as well (File photo), The pedestal of a newly installed statue of Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee was desecrated on Sukiya Street in North Kolkata early Sunday morning. The incident occurred just hours before Union Home Minister Amit Shah was scheduled to arrive in the city to lead grand, historic celebrations marking Mookerjee’s 125th birth anniversary.