Tag: Birbhum
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Suspected Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (Bangladesh) terrorist arrested from Bengal’s Birbhum
Apart from capturing the JMB suspect, the security officials have also come in possession of a laptop, CPU and other electronic gadgets belonging to him.
December 11, 2020 -
Anubrata Mandal at it again, declares candidate without confirmation from TMC
Anubrata Mandal declared that current Sainthia MLA Nilabati Saha is likely to get the TMC ticket from there in the Assembly Elections next year.
October 15, 2020 -
World’s first helium gas exploration plant coming up at Bakreswar
In a major development Atomic Minerals Directorate (sole explorer of Uranium in India), under the Department of Atomic Energy is collaborating with National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur for world’s first commercial helium gas exploration plant from hot spring site using non-cryogenic PSA technique from Bakreswar in Birbhum, about 230 kilometres from Kolkata as part of Atmanirvar Bharat initiative and stop dependency on costly import from the USA
August 26, 2020 -
Man killed in clashes over setting up of quarantine centre at Bengal’s Birbhum district
Local sources claimed that the administration has decided to set up a quarantine centre for suspected COVID-19 cases at a school in the village and it was not liked by a section of villagers while others were in favour of it.
April 5, 2020 -
Onions looted from Sufol Bangla stall in Bolpur
Initially, the employees were selling packets of one kilograms to each person, but later due to long queue they started selling 500 grams of onions per customer.
December 11, 2019 -
College teacher kills herself after lover refuses to marry her
She had a long time affair with Suman Chatterjee, a resident of Karidhya in Suri town.
August 13, 2019 -
Can of Worms
The money that was withdrawn has allegedly been siphoned off to the almost incredible extent that no work relating to the digging of ponds was carried out under the Mahatma Gandhi NREGS.
June 26, 2019 -
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