Tag: Hooghly
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Clashes on over filing nomination papers
Clashes between ruling party activists and supporters of the Opposition parties continued to break out on Friday, the fifth day of the filing of the nomination papers in Hooghly and Murshidabad, with the feuding parties’ leaders continuing a war of words. A CPI-M party leader and two activists were beaten up at Arambag in Hooghly …
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April 7, 2018 -
‘Step up vigil in correctional homes’
Peeved over reports of anti-social activities inside the Chinsurah correctional home, chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday directed the police to immediately step up vigil. While addressing the administrative meeting at Gurap in Hooghly, Miss Banerjee questioned as to how mafias within the correctional home were using mobiles, laptops and other means of communication to …
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March 21, 2018 -
Bengal: Bus falls into canal in Murshidabad; at least 2 killed, several injured
At least two persons were killed, while seven others were injured when a bus, travelling from Shikarpur in Nadia district to Malda, plunged into a canal after breaking the railing of a bridge in Murshidabad district on Monday. The accident occurred at Balirghat under Daulatabad police station area at 6 am. As per reports, the bus …
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January 29, 2018 -
A Journey of surprises along the Hooghly
A group of contemporary artists, historians, writers and musicians from the UK and India would undertake a 11-day long journey down the river Hooghly from Murshidabad district to Kolkata from December 6, as part of the ambitious Silk River project which explores the unique relationship between London and Kolkata, according to the organisers. The journey …
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December 2, 2017 -
Death in the river
The inherent danger of the exceedingly popular riverine transport that serves as a link between the peripheral districts and Kolkata, was exposed yet again on Wednesday when a jetty collapsed into the Hooghly under the sheer weight of commuters, both incoming and outgoing and jostling to disembark from or board a launch. Till Friday morning, …
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April 28, 2017 -
Two more bodies found in Hooghly jetty collapse
The death toll in the collapse of the Hooghly's temporary jetty in West Bengal rose to five with the recovery of two more bodies on Thursday, officials said. As many as 18 people remain missing in the accident following the collapse of a temporary wooden jetty at Telinipara Ghat in Bhadreswar due to high tide …
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April 27, 2017 -
Experts track gangetic dolphins in highly polluted areas of Hooghly
Experts from Worldwide Fund for Nature-India, who mapped the abundance of and threats to Gangetic dolphins in the Hooghly, say one of the most "striking features" of the study was that the endangered mammals were sighted in highly polluted pockets of the river. The study was conducted by observing and counting dolphins from the riverbank …
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March 23, 2017 -
Fear of crop loss grips farmers
The sudden demonetisation of Rs.500 and Rs.1000 currency notes has put the farmers in a fix, with the reaping of paddy.
November 11, 2016