During her official programme at Suri in Birbhum district chief minister Mamata Banerjee has announced setting up of three new medical colleges in the state yesterday, which has brought joy amongst the MBBS aspirants in West Bengal.
Amongst this landscape, the couple set up Punascha Krishikaaj, a farm of 17 bigha (roughly a little over 10 acres) that also includes a four-bigha pond area. With an investment of Rs 25 lakhs, they have initiated this farmland that provides livelihood not only from scratch but in different ways.
The core committee of Trinamul Congress in Birbhum district held an important meeting today.
The district magistrate of Birbhum, Bidhan Roy and other members of the district civil administration received the prestigious Skoch award for successful implementation of the social and educational programmes, yesterday.
Panic gripped the Mohammad Bazar area after the second murder of its kind in less than a fortnight. The victim appears to be a 40-year-old man whose face and head was brutally smashed. The body was recovered near a Toll Plaza.
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.
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.
The five-member fact-finding committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has submitted its report to JP Nadda on Wednesday.
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.
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.
