The secretary of a private missionary residential school in Purulia and local TMC leader Jagannath Mahata has been arrested by Kenda police in connection with the suicide of a Class IX student, Shambhu Kumbhakar, in the hostel room.
Forty-eight hours after his abduction, the Special Task Force (STF) of Purulia Police successfully rescued coal trader Lokesh Gorai of Brajapur village, Jhalda, from the notorious Wasseypur area in Dhanbad, Jharkhand.
As feared by the nephew that his aunty has been poisoned to death, the post-mortem report of Deben Mahato Medical College Hospital in Purulia has confirmed that Congress councillor of Jhalda Municipality Purnima Kandu has died due to poisoning.
On the directives of the West Bengal government, two teams from Purulia have rushed to Chakradharpur in neighbouring Jharkhand to look after the passengers of the state at wee hours today.
The Election Commission of India has directed the state Chief Secretary, B.P.Gopalika to remove the present Police superintendent of Purulia, Abhijit Banerjee by 10 AM tomorrow and submit names of three IPS officers to the ECI.
Abhijit Banerjee, during an address at the Kolkata Literary Meet, also said the priority of the government should be on refinancing the banking sector, which is in 'doldrums'.
“Let us all be in congratulatory and celebratory mode on the momentous occasion of honoring distinguished son of the soil Dr Abhijit Banerjee. Thinking beyond history, culture and time is the forte of Bengal’s mindscape. Bengalis time and again have led the way for countrymen. Dr Abhijit Banerjee accomplishments are the latest noteworthy in this regard,” stated a release issued by the Raj Bhavan.
Banerjee also pitched strongly for leaving syllabus setting to the individual institutions, rather than making it centralised where boards set the syllabi.
Incidentally, three ‘Randomistas’ – Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer – won the Nobel prize in Economics for their study on poverty, by incorporating a century- old purely statistical concept called ‘randomized controlled trials’ (RCT).
Miss Banerjee said: The entire economic situation in the country is gloomy but Bengal presents an exceptional case.
