Tag: Birbhum

Twin brothers secure first, second positions in V-B’s exam

Mr Ahmed said along with their studies the two brothers are culturally very active.

May 17, 2023

Fresh spell of thunderstorm, rain brings relief to city areas

Lightning claimed five lives in three separate incidents in Murshidabad and East Burdwan districts on Thursday afternoon, according to the Met department.

April 28, 2023

Weekend respite from heat wave, but no rain yet: Met

According to the RMC, after the extreme heat, there is a slight probability of the city getting drizzles during the period.

April 20, 2023

Mamata to visit Birbhum on 31 Jan

Eight people, including two children were charred to death after a mob set houses on fire in the village, following the killing of a Trinamul Congress leader.

January 12, 2023

Birbhum killing case: CBI arrests another accused

It has been alleged that the arrested accused had bought petrol on March 21, 2022, which was used for the burning of houses in village Bogtui

October 13, 2022

Asked by ruling party MLA to send doctor to Mondal’s house: Bolpur hospital superintendent

I received a call on my mobile from Roy Chowdhury on Wednesday when he told me that since Mondal is sick I should send a doctor to his residence.

August 13, 2022

Anubrata Mondal arrested by CBI

At around 5 p.m. he was brought to Asansol Special CBI Court amidst protests and slogan-shouting by CPIM and BJP supporters in a convoy heavily guarded by the CRPF.

August 12, 2022

CBI probing  ‘political’ links’ in Birbhum violence

As the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team probing the Birbhum violence case made further progress on Sunday by arresting another accused, the officials are trying to trace the "higher-level political and administrative links" of the accused as well as the victims. This is the fifth arrest by the CBI in this case.

April 10, 2022

Birbhum case: Sleuths cuff two more, CBI grills Nalhati IC

The CBI team also went to the house of Bhadu’s sister at Margram and questioned her about the details of the two absconding brothers. The person of Kogram in Nalhati, Alauddin Sheikh, who has identified all the eight dead bodies the next day at the Rampurhat hospital has also been grilled and statements recorded.

April 1, 2022

BJP fact-finding committee for Birbhum violence submits report to Nadda

The five-member fact-finding committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has submitted its report to JP Nadda on Wednesday.

March 30, 2022

After CBI summons, Anubrata in hospital

On 2 May last year, Gourav Sarkar was killed. Though in the initial FIR, Anubrata Mondal has not been named, the CBI has called him at the Illambazar camp office on Friday afternoon. Anubrata Mondal did not appear before CBI twice and has already moved to Calcutta High Court fearing arrest by the central agency.

February 3, 2022

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