Tag: Malda

Squalls, light rain bring brief relief to city dwellers

According to the Met office, the wind from the north-west direction swept over Alipore with a maximum speed of 78 km per hour.

May 24, 2023

Two killed in Malda firecracker shop fire

Police sources said an FIR is being lodged over the incident and some persons have been detained for questioning.

May 24, 2023

Govt to spend `50cr to check erosion

The departmental secretaries, principal secretaries and additional chief secretaries joined the meeting virtually. The state government had already spent Rs 1,000 crore in five years to prevent erosion.

May 5, 2023

West Bengal: 2 dead, several injured in bus accident in Malda

State Minister and Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim, after meeting the injured persons at the hospital, said the accident might have taken place due to the bus driver's negligence.

January 31, 2023

Centre team in Malda probes housing scheme status

The team visited houses of several people in Charianantapur and Kamarpur villages of Kaliachak-III block, who have said that they were deprived of the houses under the scheme, despite the fact that they had applied for the same.

January 7, 2023

TMC leader seeks cash; video ‘viral’

According to Mr Saha, he had made the video clip just for fun, but that the opposition made it a "conspiracy to defame" him.

December 8, 2022

Five houses, lakhs in cash gutted in Malda fire

Five houses were gutted in a sudden fire that broke out in Sonakal village in Malior-II gram panchayat under the Harishchandrapur police station in Malda district

August 19, 2022

Panic in Malda after erosion along Ganga

People living in the area have now started to leave their houses and take shelter in safer places, it is learned.

August 5, 2022

Malda bomb blast: Four arrested

“We produced the arrested in the Malda district court today. Besides, the district police have started an investigation into the whole incident,” a police officer said.

July 19, 2022

Civic volunteer found dead in Malda

Police at the Baishnabnagar police station said that the exact cause of the death would be known only after receiving the autopsy report.

June 14, 2022

Malda litchi finally finds its way abroad

The West Bengal Exporter Co-ordination Committee, a major exporter of the state, have expressed interest in exporting the Malda litchi, it is learnt.

May 24, 2022

Top Malda TMC leader ‘left out’ of party meeting

The matter triggered a political controversy and once again hinted at differences of opinion among factions of the TMC in Malda. In the last Assembly elections in 2019, the Trinamul Congress lost in 22 of the 29 wards of the EBM, as per the votes polled in the areas.

January 19, 2022

Malda women demand 100 days’ work

"Workers enrolled in the 100-day work in Gazole block are not being given work, whereas the state administration is repeatedly trying to generate more work under the 100 days' scheme. The Gazole block administration is showing an indifferent attitude,"

December 11, 2021

TMC factional feud rears ugly head in Malda

"The factionalism in the Trinamul Congress is increasing day by day. The party will end in this factional conflict," district BJP president Gobinda Chandra Mandal said, mockingly.

November 8, 2021

Crude bombs go off in abandoned Malda house

According to sources, the area was shaken by the explosion this morning, while police went to the spot and recovered several crude bombs later.

October 25, 2021

Malda tribals protest opium-related arrest

However, the district police started taking strict action against the opium growers later, while the chiefs and members of every gram panchayat were issued strict warnings and asked to see that the cultivation was not done.

October 18, 2021

Malda gears up for B’desh lotus export

"Initiatives have been taken to export them to Bangladesh as well as several other states, including Assam, Jharkhand, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh,"

October 5, 2021