Kolkata, April 28 (IANS) Another student allegedly died by suicide at the IIT Kharagpur campus in West Bengal’s West Midnapore district, the second such incident within a span of ten days.The body of the 22-year-old engineering student was recovered from the Madan Mohan Malviya Hall on Tuesday morning. Prima facie, it appeared to be a case of suicide, said officials.According to the police, the deceased student’s name is Soham Haldar, a resident of the Shalbagan area of Barasat in the Nort…
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Kolkata, April 21 (IANS) On the last day of campaigning for the first phase of the Assembly polls, a Bharatiya Janata Party procession was attacked in Dantan, West Midnapore district. It is alleged that a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate was attacked in the incident. There were multiple injuries. As the condition of one person is critical, he has been admitted to a hospital in Balasore, Odisha. A large police force arrived at the scene and dealt with the situation.It has been learnt…
Kolkata, March 18 (IANS) After a prolonged phase of internal party strife, senior BJP leader Dilip Ghosh has regained prominence with the party fielding him from his preferred Kharagpur Sadar constituency in West Midnapore district for the upcoming Assembly elections.Speaking to reporters during his morning walk on Wednesday, he issued a bold challenge, declaring a target of achieving 1,00,000 votes. In the same breath, he also took aim at the Trinamool Congress.After hitting the campaign trail,…
Kolkata, March 5 (IANS) A Booth Level Officer (BLO) and an elderly person died in West Bengal on Thursday. Family members of the deceased alleged that they died due to workload and panic arising out of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise and the voters’ list in the state.According to the police, the name of the BLO who died in West Midnapore district is Subimal Karak. He was 58-years-old and lived in Hatimari area of Shalboni police station.He was working as a teacher at Sa…
Kolkata, Feb 25 (IANS): Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Wednesday approached the Calcutta High Court raising serious concerns regarding his personal security and alleging lack of adequate vigilance and protection by the state police authorities.His counsel mentioned the matter before a division bench comprising Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen, drawing the court’s attention to the alleged failure of the state police to ensure pr…
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 4 (IANS) The BJP on Wednesday accused the Trinamool Congress of attacking its workers in the Keshpur block of West Bengal’s West Midnapore district.Eight BJP workers were injured in the alleged attack. They were brought to Midnapore Medical College and Hospital with injuries. However, the Trinamool Congress denied the allegations.According to reports, the BJP leadership organised an internal meeting in the Ramakata area of Keshpur block’s Ward No. 7 on Tuesday evening.After th…
Kolkata, Jan 11 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday called up the Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, and enquired about the attack on the latter’s convoy at Chandrakona in West Midnapore district.Adhikari’s office had also forwarded five videos on the attack on his convoy to the Union Home Ministry.Earlier in the day, the Union Home Ministry had sought reports from the office of the leader of the opposition regarding the attack, sources in the offi…
Kolkata, Jan 2 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has been compelled to engage Oriya interpreters-cum-translators for four gram panchayats — two each under the Dantan and Mohanpur community development blocks — in West Midnapore district of West Bengal, for hearings on claims and objections related to the draft voters’ list.This is because the majority of voters in these four gram panchayats located close to the West Bengal-Odisha border in the West Midnapore district are predomin…