Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) A Trinamool Congress block president has been arrested in north Bengal’s Cooch Behar district for allegedly indulging in violence and molestation, said the police on Tuesday.The police have arrested Abdul Kader, the Trinamool Congress president of Cooch Behar I-B block. The police arrested him from Guriahati II gram panchayat areas on Monday.He was produced in court on Monday afternoon. According to police sources, there are allegations of vandalism, looting and molestatio…
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Kolkata, April 18 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress on Saturday approached the Election Commission of India (ECI), accusing the Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma of making “divisive, inciteful statements along with defamatory and unverified allegations” targeting the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. In the letter, Trinamool Congress had referred to a public statement made by Assam Chief Minister Sarma at a campaign rally in Cooch Behar district, where the latter allegedly said that…
Kolkata, March 23 (IANS) Cash worth lakhs of rupees were recovered once again in West Bengal ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections, the police said on Monday. Police and officials from the Static Surveillance Team (SST) recovered more than Rs 3.7 lakh in cash from three vehicles during searches conducted at two separate checkpoints within the Bakshirhat police station area near West Bengal-Assam border in Cooch Behar district.In connection with this incident, the police have detained three in…
Kolkata, March 22 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has stepped up action against unauthorised political advertisements across West Bengal ahead of the two-phase Assembly elections scheduled next month.In a statement issued on Sunday night, the ECI said a total of 3,58,986 such advertisements had been removed across the state so far.Of these, 3,11,829 cases were related to defacement of public property, while 19,901 involved defacement of private property.According to the ECI, Cooch …
Kolkata, March 9 (IANS) Following the lead of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, North Bengal Development Minister Udayan Guha on Monday began a hunger strike in Dinhata to protest what he described as the arbitrary deletion of names from the electoral rolls of West Bengal following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.Guha alleged that the Election Commission of India (ECI) had removed the names of ordinary voters at the behest of the Bharatiya Janata Party. In protest, leaders and worker…
Kolkata, March 2 (IANS) The West Bengal government on Monday announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh each and a job for one of the family members of five workers who were electrocuted in Cooch Behar district’s Dinhata area.North Bengal Development Minister Udayan Guha, Cooch Behar District Magistrate Raju Mishra, and Superintendent of Police Sandeep Karra met the family members of the workers and made the announcement. The state government has conveyed its support to the bereaved family members.”T…
Kolkata, March 1 (IANS) Five factory workers were electrocuted to death after coming into contact with an 11,000-volt overhead electric line in Dinhata in Cooch Behar district of north Bengal on Sunday, officials said.The incident occurred in the Dinhata Village-II Gram Panchayat area under Dinhata police station limits. According to initial reports, an 11,000-volt electric wire snapped and fell on the iron portion of a mixer machine during work at a stone-cutting factory located near the head o…
New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) The Versova police in Mumbai, Maharashtra, have carried out a major operation against Bangladeshi nationals residing illegally in India, arresting 25 individuals from the Andheri West Yari Road area. Among those detained, 21 were transgender persons, two were women, and two were men. The authorities have initiated the process to deport all arrested individuals back to Bangladesh.According to police officials, these Bangladeshi nationals had entered India illegally severa…
Kolkata, Feb 18 (IANS) Police have arrested a man suspected to be a Bangladeshi national for allegedly residing in India for several years using forged identity documents, officials said on Wednesday. The arrest was made from the Dinhata area in Cooch Behar district of north Bengal.The arrested individual has been identified as Omar Farooq Byapari, who had reportedly been living in the Chowdhuryhat Gram Panchayat area under Dinhata-II block for several years. He is accused of fraudulently obtain…
Kolkata, Feb 9 (IANS) A civic volunteer died while attending a training programme in Fulbari of Jalpaiguri district in north Bengal, the police said on Monday. The deceased civic volunteer has been identified as Pankaj Barman. He was stationed at Mathabhanga Police Station in Cooch Behar district. He had gone to the 12th Battalion to participate in the six-day training camp in Fulbari. He died there.According to police sources, Pankaj suffered a heart attack on Sunday night. When the sentry on d…