Kolkata, March 26 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party workers were allegedly attacked by Trinamool Congress activists in Basanti of South 24 Parganas district on Thursday during an Assembly election campaign. Several police personnel were injured while attempting to bring the situation under control. The Bharatiya Janata Party has accused the ruling Trinamool Congress of orchestrating the attack. So far, the police have detained eight individuals on suspicion of involvement in the incident.On Th…
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Kolkata, March 24 (IANS) The recovery of the body of a local BJP worker, found in Raidighi of South 24 Parganas district, sparked widespread tension in the area on Tuesday. Though the BJP is claiming that it was a political murder, the cops have arrested the deceased man’s wife and her alleged lover for the killing, on the family’s complaint.The 39-year-old BJP worker identified as Kishor Majhi served as the vice-president of the BJP unit for Booth No. 216. The incident took place in the Mena ar…
Kolkata, March 10 (IANS) A Booth Level Officer (BLO) in West Bengal’s Kakdwip, on Tuesday, approached the state administration after he received threats from a voter of his area after his name was deleted following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. BLO Manindranath Das has been allegedly receiving threatening calls ever since the publication of the final voter list during the first phase of SIR on February 28. A similar threat call was received by the BLO on Monday night. Later, the…
Kolkata, March 5 (IANS) Around 15 children fell sick at an Anganwadi centre in West Bengal on Thursday after a dead lizard was allegedly found in the cooked food served there.The incident took place at the Nagendrapur Uttarpara ICDS centre in Raidighi in South 24 Parganas district. All the 15 children who reportedly fell sick after consuming the contaminated food were admitted to Raidighi Rural Hospital.According to local sources, lunch was being served to the children at the ICDS centre when th…
Kolkata, Feb 26 (IANS) The decomposed body of a medical student was recovered from a hostel room at Kalyani Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Hospital and Medical College in West Bengal’s Nadia district on Thursday.According to police, the deceased student has been identified as Pulak Haldar, a final-year student of Kalyani Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Hospital and Medical College. He was a resident of Mograhat in South 24 Parganas district.Sources said that Pulak was last seen on February 20 when he went …
Kolkata, Feb 25 (IANS) One of the three children, critically injured in an explosion in a drum filled with chemicals in the Bhangar area of West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday morning. According to the police, the child, identified as nine-year-old Sadiqul Ahmed from Kharagachi in the Bhangar area, had suffered 95 per cent injuries in the explosion on February 17. He was undergoing treatment at MR Bangur Hospital in Kolkata. At around 6 a.m., he died …
Kolkata, Feb 22 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress has alleged that its party workers were attacked by Indian Secular Front (ISF) activists in Polerhat area in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, police said on Sunday.The Trinamool Congress claimed that the incident occurred when they were holding the meeting in the area on Friday night.Two Trinamool Congress leaders were reportedly injured in the attack and were rushed to Jirengacha Rural Hospital.Doctors said that the condition of the injured…
Kolkata, Feb 21 (IANS) The bodies of 18 victims of the Anandapur warehouse fire on the southern outskirts of Kolkata have been identified through DNA mapping and handed over to their families on Saturday. With this, the official death toll in the tragedy has risen to 45, while nine persons are still reported missing.Police sources said the identification was confirmed after matching DNA samples of the remains with those provided by the victims’ family members. Among the 18 deceased, 16 were fr…
Kolkata, Feb 16 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday directly suspended seven Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs) engaged in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal on charges of dereliction of duty, without waiting for the state government to comply with the Commission’s directive.The direction to suspend these seven AEROs had been issued by the Commission to the West Bengal Chief Secretary, Nandini Chakraborty, late on Sunday evening. Howe…
Kolkata, Feb 16 (IANS) The Indian Coast Guard seized a Bangladeshi fishing trawler and detained 28 Bangladeshi fishermen for entering Indian waters in violation of maritime boundaries. The Indian Coast Guard transported the trawler and the fishermen to Fraserganj Fisheries Port in South 24 Parganas district on Monday afternoon.During a Coast Guard patrol on Monday morning, a suspicious trawler was observed within Indian waters in the Bay of Bengal. Coast Guard personnel ordered the vessel to sto…