NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Kolkata airport will suspend flight operations from midnight Sunday for 21 hours after a storm over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a severe cyclonic storm, airport authorities said. The cyclonic storm is expected to cross Bangladesh and India’s West Bengal coasts around midnight Sunday, the India Meteorological Department said […]
Suffice it to say it’s not easy to kill a crocodile. Ninety-five million years of evolution haven’t done it, and most animals can’t do it either. But a few jungle predators can, and tourists caught one riveting encounter on video in an Indian national park. T-124, aka Riddhi, is a six-year-old Bengal tigress living in […]
Ahead of India’s general elections that begin April 19, critics of West Bengal state leader Mamata Banerjee shared a photo collage they falsely claimed depicted her faking an injury. But the pictures — one showing her with a bloodied forehead while the other showing a different part of her face bandaged — were from two […]
An old video of a man beating up a police officer has resurfaced in posts that falsely claimed the attacker was a politician from India’s West Bengal state. It was shared after protests erupted in February 2024 against sexual harassment and land grabs in West Bengal, which is controlled by the opposition Trinamool Congress party. […]