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Kolkata, April 13 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday, during an election rally, said that those who have looted the people of West Bengal in the last 15 years would be punished once the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) comes to power after the Assembly polls in the state.“Those who have looted people through their ‘cut-money syndicates’ during the last 15 years will be spotted one by one and hanged upside down after the elections. Those who have murdered the BJP supporters or tortu…

Kolkata, April 13 (IANS) Amid the crucial two-phase West Bengal Assembly elections, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be holding five back-to-back campaign programmes in the state on Monday.First, he will address two public meetings in Birbhum district, the first at Sainthia at noon and the second at Khayrasole at 1.15 p.m.Thereafter, at 2.35 p.m., he will address another public meeting in Raniganj, West Burdwan district. Again at 4 p.m., he will be participating in a roadshow at the steel city…

Asansol, March 20 (IANS) In West Bengal’s Paschim Bardhaman district, extraction of coal from Raniganj since centuries anchored the region’s growth and later made Asansol–Durgapur a hub of heavy industry and rail‑linked manufacturing. Today, the area hosts a number of closed gates of industries having shut down.Steel, engineering, and allied industries grew around coal and rail links; large plants and ancillary factories created dense industrial townships and skilled labour markets.However, …