Tag: Birbhum
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Constituency watch: A BJP-Trinamool contest in Somnath Chatterjee’s Bolpur
The BJP candidate has hijacked the much hyped TMC slogan "chup chap fule chap", only it's lotus instead of the twin flower
April 27, 2019 -
West Bengal: Locals lock OC post robbery at temple
The local people narrated the incidents leading to the row on Thursday. They said that in Chinpai Siddheswari temple, a cultural function was going on after the Kali Puja.
November 9, 2018 -
BJP seeks CBI investigation into party workers death
The district BJP led by president Ramkrishna Roy started a sit-in dharna in front of the office of the Suri sub-divisional magistrate, demanding a CBI probe into the death of Bagdi.
October 31, 2018 -
TMC leaders murder: Khairasole OC removed
The motive behind the murder is not clear, but police have started investigations and all angles will be probed, police superintendent Kunal Agarwal said.
October 24, 2018 -
School for Scandal
The silence of the Birbhum district administration is intriguing when we reflect on the enormity of the outrage in a part of the state that is given to trumpeting the legacy of Tagore. The core issue goes beyond child labour in the backwaters of West Bengal, a disgrace in itself. Those supposedly engaged in rural …
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August 23, 2018 -
Birbhum | Dhatridebata, the ancestral home of writer Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, to be renovated
The state government has provided a fund of Rs 32 lakh
July 28, 2018 -
Dynamite blast in illegal stone quarry leaves 16 dead in Jharkhand
Sixteen people were killed in a dynamite blast on Thursday at an illegal stone quarry in Lipipara area within Shikaripara police station limits of Jharkhand, near the Birbhum border. Three bodies could be retrieved from the debris by the police with the help of local villagers, out of which one person is a resident of …
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May 11, 2018 -
Inter-party clashes continue in Birbhum
Inter-party clashes continued to singe Birbhum with BJP activist suffering splinter injury and another person struck by an arrow after miscreants and BJP supporters clashed at Mohammad Bazar area on Saturday. Earlier, Kalo Sona Mondal and former CPI-M MP, Dr Ram Chandra Dome were injured in clashes with Trinamul activists. Trouble broke out during the …
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April 8, 2018 -
Thousands participate in ‘Harmony Mega Rally’
A war of words broke out between Left Front chairman Biman Bose and Trinamul Congress’s Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal, after the former had taken out a “harmony rally,” a day before Ram Navami at Rampurhat on Saturday. Instead of criticising each other’s political ideology, both the leaders trained their guns on the reported physical …
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March 25, 2018 -
Three-tier panchayat polls in Birbhum may be held in August
In the last administrative meeting before the upcoming three-tier gram panchayat polls of Birbhum district in Bolpur, chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday hinted that the polls will be held in August. In 2013, the gram panchayat polls were held in April -May but it seems that the election will be delayed by around three …
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March 22, 2018 -
New auction process: Sand of high quality from Birbhum transported in bulk to BJP-ruled states
Sand of high quality from the river beds of Birbhum are being transported to the BJPruled states of Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh loaded in bulk these days following the new auction procedure taken up by the district administration. Around 2300 tonnes of sand loaded in 63 wagons left from Suri railway Station to …
March 3, 2018 -
Theatre of the soil
Theatre in Bengal — or anywhere else for that matter — has seldom seen such commitment. There are no high stakes, no big advertisements, not even a regular stage for the kind of theatre that Partha Gupta has converted into a mission. The graduate from the drama department of Visva Bharati University had a brief …
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February 3, 2017 -
Mob clashes with police in Birbhum
A mob in West Bengal’s Birbhum on Sunday attacked a police team which went to investigate a bike theft, police said. The incident happened in the Rampurhat area, where the group of local residents, alleging that police were hand-in-glove with the burglars in the area and allowed them to roam freely, pelted stones at the …
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September 25, 2016 -
Mumbai gears up to bid adieu to Lord Ganesha
The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) and city police have made elaborate arrangements for the immersion of Lord Ganesha idols on Thursday, which will culminate the 11-day long festival. "A total of 31 artificial ponds have been created for immersion while people can also immerse the idols of the elephant-headed deity in 68 natural …
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September 14, 2016