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.
Burdwan known as Bengal's rice bowl is set to go for cultivation of Miyazaki variety of world's costliest mango and the zilla parishad already has allocated land and funds for the purpose. Miazaki was sold at Rs 3 lakh per kg in Birbhum
Truckloads carrying sand using fake consignment invoices bearing forged government seals were intercepted by the police yesterday in East Burdwan.
ATS of the Gujarat Police has sought information from the East Burdwan Police about a pair of youths booked on…
Candidates accommodated in the official list communicated by Trinamul Congress Bhawan have been denied symbols and the Independents offered the status as official candidates.
Instead of having a conventional black-top, that absorbs heat, a “blue road” like this, according to the infrastructure development engineers, will reflect heat to some extent.
