Kolkata, April 5 (IANS) In an early morning operation on Sunday, the sleuths of Cooch Behar District Police in poll-bound West Bengal have successfully seized a consignment of arms and ammunition at Changrabandha Bypass under Mekliganj Police Station in that district.The arms and ammunition had taken place just 10 hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address a mega campaign rally in Cooch Behar town in the same district at around 2 p.m. on Sunday.Sources from the Cooch Behar…
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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…
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, Jan 12 (IANS) Police in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar district have arrested a man in connection with the murder of an unidentified person, with investigators claiming that during interrogation the accused confessed that he intended to consume the victim’s flesh.The incident took place in the Kurshahat area under Dinhata in Cooch Behar district and has triggered panic among locals.Police said on Monday that the identity of the deceased is yet to be ascertained. The victim, who reportedl…