The incident took place near the Kakmarichar border post of the BSF in Murshidabad district, where Head Constable Vijay Bhan Singh succumbed to bullet injuries on his head as BGB opened fire at boat carrying BSF Jawans.
West Bengal Cheif Minister Mamata Banerjee congratulated former Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly on being named president-elect of BCCI
As part of the nationwide Gandhi Sankalp Yatra on the sesquicentennial of Mahatma Gandhi, the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members would traverse 6,500 km between October 15 and October 26, a senior leader said here on Sunday.
The saffron party claimed eight of its party workers were killed in Bengal in the last one week excluding the triple murder in Murshidabad district.
The labourers were digging at Dhubi Karigar village in the district on Thursday when they found the skeletal remains and skulls, the official said.
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The incident took place at about 6 am in Malbazar subdivision when the people were going to a weekly market at Mangalbari in Chalsa.
The children were going to a neighbouring village from Chakbahadur to watch idol immersion when the accident took place on Tuesday evening, Additional District Magistrate of Malda, Arnab Chatterjee, said.
Acting on a tip-off, officers raided Sahabajpur village under Kaliachak police station limits on Sunday night and nabbed 36-year-old Rafiqul Momin, district Superintendent of Police Alok Rajoria said.
The boat capsized while it was coming to Jagannathpur Ghat of Mahanandapur gram panchayat of Chanchal, at nearly 6:30 pm on Thursday.
WB Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday cautioned the people of West Bengal against divisive politics and said it will not work in the state. Bengal is known for its hospitality and people of different faiths in the state practice their respective religions.
Zilla Parishad president Gour Chandra Mandal said that the low-lying areas in all the blocks of the district have been inundated and a large number of mud houses have collapsed due to heavy rainfall over the past two days.
The blaze was reported from North Bengal Medical College and Hospital in West Bengal.
Security has been tightened at the Calcutta High Court, after a letter threatened of multiple bomb blasts inside its buildings on September 30, Registrar General Rabindranath Samanta said on Thursday. The letter claimed to have been written by one Hardarshan Singh Nagpal, said that he and his son will trigger several bomb blasts inside the court complex, Samanta said.
In yet another setback to top West Bengal police officer Rajeev Kumar, the Alipore District and Sessions Court on Saturday rejected his anticipatory bail plea after the CBI said he was breaking the law by evading its summons in the Saradha chit fund case.
Dhankar arrived at the hospital in the southern part of the city's Dhakuria area around 10 am to meet Das and pro- VC PK Ghosh, who were admitted on Thursday, following the incident of heckling of Union minister Babul Supriyo by a section of students at the varsity.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Friday (September 20) that National Register of Citizens exercise will not take place in West Bengal.
Family members of the 13-year-old boy were watching the news bulletin on 'Doordarshan Kolkata', when they spotted their ward among the inmates of a home for mentally ill persons, in Nadia district of West Bengal, a state government release said.
Talking to reporters at city airport before leaving for the national capital, Banerjee said she would also raise issues like name change of the state as well matters like merger of public sector banks during the meeting.
Officials of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) reached West Bengal State Secretariat on Sunday evening. The officials were seen carrying documents in their hands. It is not yet known what are those documents about.
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