Five workers electrocuted to death in Bengal’s Dinhata
Five factory workers were electrocuted to death after coming into contact with an 11,000-volt overhead electric line in Dinhata in Cooch Behar district of north Bengal on Sunday, officials said.
Five factory workers were electrocuted to death after coming into contact with an 11,000-volt overhead electric line in Dinhata in Cooch Behar district of north Bengal on Sunday, officials said.
The Trinamul Congress (TMC) leadership in Cooch Behar has begun early mobilisation ahead of the Assembly elections, focusing on women beneficiaries of the state government’s Lakshmir Bhandar scheme.
Tension gripped the Sahebganj police station area in Dinhata of Cooch Behar on Friday after police seized a large quantity of banned cough syrup and arrested a local BJP leader on charges of trafficking.
Before leaving Cooch Behar for Siliguri, state BJP president Samik Bhattacharya on Saturday visited Cooch Behar airport and held discussions with airport officials on the expansion of the runway and the resumption of aircraft services.
An inter-district kabaddi championship was organised at Serampore by Mahesh Colony Yuva Kishore Sangha and Sukanta Sob Peyechi Ashor.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, at an administrative review meeting in Cooch Behar on Monday, alleged that the central government had not provided adequate funds for Public Health Engineering (PHE) projects, particularly for drinking water supply.
The chief minister detailed that 21 deaths occurred in Darjeeling, nine in Jalpaiguri, and two in Mathabhanga, Cooch Behar.
Trinamul Congress activist Sanjay Barman was murdered in Mathabhanga, Cooch Behar, on Thursday night. Police have arrested two persons in connection with the case, identified as Ajay Barman and Mantu Barman.
Hundreds of Trinamul Congress supporters allegedly attacked the convoy of Leader of Opposition (LoP) Suvendu Adhikari at Khagrabari, the gateway to Cooch Behar town, on Tuesday, damaging his bulletproof car as he was en route to a political programme, permitted by the Jalpaiguri Circuit Bench of the Calcutta High Court.
A 75-year-old resident of Mathabhanga II block in Cooch Behar, Nishikanta Das, has sought the intervention of chief minister Mamata Banerjee after receiving a notice from the Foreigners Tribunal in Kamrup, Assam, in connection with the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
