Kolkata, Jan 10 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) is unhappy over the low number of private housing complexes with 300 or more residents identified so far in Bengal for setting up polling booths for the crucial Assembly elections scheduled later this year.Sources in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, said that so far, only 69 such private housing complexes with 300 or more residents have been identified in West Bengal, far less than the estimated requiremen…
Latest North 24 Parganas district News & Updates
Kolkata, Jan 7 (IANS) A 63-year-old woman died while attending a hearing, held under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, at Naihati in North 24 Parganas district, the police said on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Ratna Chakraborty.According to her family, the woman had gone to the Barrackpore No. 1 BDO office on Tuesday for the hearing, where she suffered a heart attack.Upon experiencing chest pain, she was immediately rushed to Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Nadia district’s …
Kolkata, Jan 4 (IANS) A middle-aged man has been arrested on the charges of sexually assaulting a three-year-old girl in Beliaghata of North 24 Parganas district, the police said on Sunday. The incident occurred in a settlement near the Beleghata Chaul Patti railway bridge.The victim is currently receiving treatment in the hospital.Sealdah Government Railway Police (GRP) has started an investigation into the incident.According to residents and police sources, the child, who lives in a settlement…
Kolkata, Jan 3 (IANS) The West Bengal Police were attacked in North 24 Parganas district’s Nazat Police Station area while trying to stop illegal construction on a plot of land, the police said on Saturday. Several police officers were injured after locals hurled bricks and stones at them and a police vehicle was also vandalised.As of now, eight people have been arrested in connection with the incident.Additionally, police have detained and are questioning the head of the Boyarmari II Gram Panch…
Kolkata, Jan 1 (IANS) In the mysterious death of a woman Home Guard in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, the accused police officer has finally been arrested, the police said on Thursday. Sub-Inspector Sayan Bhattacharya of the Canning Police Station was arrested from the Swarupnagar police station area in Basirhat of North 24 Parganas district earlier in the day.Following the arrest, the accused was the produced before the Alipore court. According to sources, the police sought his custo…
Kolkata, Dec 30 (IANS) Around 200 shops in Birati’s Jadu Babu’s market in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district were gutted in a fire that broke out in the early hours of Tuesday. The shops were reduced to ashes, and the goods and assets inside perished, leaving the owners and workers in shock. Preliminary reports said there were no reports of casualties.The famous market is located adjacent to Birati railway station and frequented by locals and passengers.Sources said the devastating fire br…
Kolkata, Dec 27 (IANS) Folk singer-turned-politician and the BJP legislator from the Haringhata Assembly constituency in Nadia district of West Bengal, Ashim Kumar Sarkar, on Saturday, registered a police complaint claiming a threat to his life.In the complaint, Sarkar claimed that he had been receiving consecutive death threats for the last few days.In his complaint filed at Chakdaha Police Station in Nadia district, Sarkar has also provided the investigating officials with two mobile numbers f…