13 rank holders from Burdwan, Bankura, 1 commits suicide
A fifth boy, two 8th and seven 10th boys & girls shared the state merit list of Madhyamik from East Burdwan and Bankura this year.
A fifth boy, two 8th and seven 10th boys & girls shared the state merit list of Madhyamik from East Burdwan and Bankura this year.
A shepherd and two farmers were killed by lightning while roofs of houses were sent flying, a running car was flung from a bridge, electric poles and trees were uprooted by strong winds in a storm that struck two blocks in East Burdwan and one in adjacent Hooghly district on Sunday morning.
A mother jumped into the Bhagirathi river to rescue her drowning son and had to be rescued by some local fish vendors in Katwa in East Burdwan. The son is still missing and presumed dead.
Disguised as customers, the forest officials recovered hefty deer antlers and arrested five traffickers from a village in East Burdwan today.
A British firm, celebrating International Women's Day, in collaboration with the state, has extended cooperation to set up a spice processing unit to help sustenance of around 750 women in Ausgram-II of East Burdwan.
Two companies of central paramilitary forces, which arrived at East Burdwan last night, began route march in different 'troubled' areas of Burdwan and Katwa towns today.
The DM of East Burdwan landed into a controversy after she compared the chief minister Mamata Banerjee with Devi Durga during the inauguration of the state government's Srishtishree Fair, this afternoon.
In 2003, the BJP's mentor organization, RSS incidentally had hailed Mamata Banerjee as Bengal's Durga, after she'd visited the Nagpur headquarters of the organization seeking the Sangh Parivar's support in her struggle against the then ruling Communist brigade in Bengal.
A student appeared at the Madhyamik examination despite being beaten by a snake in Bhatar in East Burdwan.
The medical superintendent of the hospital, Dr Debashis Bala, said, “After our respective physician suggested for an X-ray, the minister expressed his desire to get the imaging done at our hospital itself, but this wasn't possible as we don't have adequate strength of technicians to run the department after 2pm everyday.”