Two persons were injured during a shootout at Bankra gram panchayat office, hardly eight to 10km away from the state secretariat Nabanna, on Thursday afternoon, just 17 days ahead of the Lok Sabha election in Howrah constituency.
Superstitions claimed the life of a 12-year-old adolescent boy in Udaynarayanpur in Howrah, hardly 45km from the state secretariat, Nabanna.
Delay in a train’s departure allegedly led to vandalism of the enquiry counter of the South Eastern Railway at Howrah station today.
A 95-year-old widow from Bihar’s Banka district, who was found lying unconscious on a pavement in Howrah is being reunited with her family and is set to exercise her franchise in the Lok Sabha elections next week.
The incident took place at Fakirpara along the national highway-16 in the Uluberia station area early this morning.
Four industrial parks are coming up in Howrah and they are likely to fetch Rs 4,450 crore in the next 2/3 years.
The cancellations come as a result of the mega block to be taken on 9 February for the dismantling of road overbridge No. 213 at Burdwan station
A month has passed since repair work by the Public Works Department (PWD) engineers began on the Santragachi bridge for the replacement of damaged expansion joints in mid-November. This had led to extreme ordeals for thousands of commuters and chaos had become the order of the day. The resumption of normal traffic comes a little ahead of schedule and brings a sense of relief to many.
Violence broke out in different parts of Kolkata adjacent Howrah district, especially at the Santragachi area, following clashes between police and BJP supporters, over the latter's march to the West Bengal secretariat.
The four persons killed were Debraj's mother Minati Ghosh (55), his elder brother Debasish Ghosh (36), latter's wife and daughter, Rekha Ghosh (30) and Tiyasha Ghosh (13), respectively.
