With mammoth crowds thronging the puja pandals, the Sealdah division of the Eastern Railway carried more than one crore commuters in the suburban section during the peak festive days between 8 October and 12 October.
In a bizarre incident, a husband jumped from the rooftop into a high-tension electric wire and committed suicide after his wife accidentally fell from the rooftop of a house in Purulia while watching the display of fire crackers during the immersion of the Durga Puja idols last evening.
Three flats in a multistoried residential building were looted by a gang of three, close to Durgapur town after the midnight hours today.
Serampore MP Kalyan Banerjee on the occasion said, “Efforts were made to dampen the spirit of Durga Puja and carnival under the garb of protests and agitations but nothing worked. Even predictions of a heavy downpour proved wrong. There is no stopping the spontaneous flow of emotions and sentiments.”
A ruckus broke out after people from Droh Carnival at Dorina Crossing suddenly forced the state minister and senior Trinamul Congress leader Sujit Bose’s car to halt this evening.
In a dramatic incident today, a group of frustrated patients and their relatives stormed the office of the medical superintendent and vice principal (MSVP) at North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMC&H).
On 19 October 1987, following three days of decline in the New York stock market, the Hong Kong market dropped 10.5 per cent after a rise of 89 per cent in the previous 12 months.
The escalating conflict in West Asia, particularly the clashes involving Israel, Hezbollah, and Iran, signals the beginning of a potentially far-reaching regional crisis.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Mongolian Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Islamabad.
Psephology, the study of elections and voting, came into its own in India, after journalist and economist Prannoy Roy, writing for a weekly magazine, correctly predicted the outcome of the 1984 General Elections.
