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In Gazole meet, Subhendu talks about development and unity
Trinamul Congress will take over Malda in the coming panchayat election if its leaders and activists keep in mind two things, one is development and the other is unity, says party observer and the state minister for transport, Subhendu Adhikary in his block level meeting for the rural polls in Gazole on Wednesday. The factional …
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March 22, 2018 -
Women seek toilets on Intl Women’s Day event
On International Women’s day the rural women of Murshidabad district made a decent appeal for construction of toilets at their homes. Rural women~all working as silk farmers at Mallikpur- Diara village in Murshidabad district~have to defecate in the open as they have no toilets at home. Yesterday, they attended a programme for celebrating International women’s …
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March 10, 2018 -
Adhir’s loyal aide Apurba Sarkar defects to Trinamul
Dealing a major blow to party organisation in Murshidabad, Congress MLA from Kandi, Apurba Sarkar, once one of the chief lieutenants of PCC chief Adhir Chowdhury joined Trinamul Congress at his constituency on Thursday. Congress Legislature Party (CLP) is reduced to 33 MLAs following his defection. Sarkar was seeking to defect from the party for …
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March 9, 2018 -
Murshidabad to Malda, CM to ‘soon’ embark on tour
The strides being made by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and elections, including the rural polls, in mind, Trinamul Congress supremo and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to begin a tour from Murshidabad to Siliguri soon. As she left Siliguri for Kolkata on 9 February, Miss Banerjee gave a hint to her close associates …
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February 13, 2018 -
Bengal bus accident: Death toll rises to 43, search operations still underway
The recent bus accident in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district has claimed two more lives taking the toll 43 after rescue workers recovered another body on Wednesday. The exact number of passengers is yet not known, therefore the search and rescue operations are still underway, said senior district official. Bodies of 42 passengers were fished out and eight …
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January 31, 2018 -
Bengal bus accident: Death toll rises to 41, search operation on
The toll in the bus accident in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district rose to 41, after five more bodies were fished out during a search operation on Tuesday. Some of these bodies were found stuck on the waterbed and the others were floating, a senior official of the state administration said. The search operation that was …
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January 30, 2018 -
Bengal bus accident: Mamata announces Rs.5 lakh for kin of dead
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday condoled the loss of lives in a bus accident in Murshidabad that left at least four people dead and sanctioned Rs.5 lakh each to the kin of the deceased. “Incident at Murshidabad is sad. I have asked my official to take a note of the situation. I …
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January 29, 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 -
The ‘poor man’s cigarette’
Umme Kusum, seven years old, stays with her mother, Aliara Bibi, in a small village in Murshidabad district of West Bengal. While other children are in school, however, Umme Kusum is learning the art of rolling beedis, hand-rolled cigarettes of tobacco flake wrapped in tendu leaves. Aliara has two other teenage daughters, Zainab and Beauti. …
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January 22, 2017 -
The ‘poor man’s cigarette’
Umme Kusum, seven years old, stays with her mother, Aliara Bibi, in a small village in Murshidabad district of West Bengal. While other children are in school, however, Umme Kusum is learning the art of rolling beedis, hand-rolled cigarettes of tobacco flake wrapped in tendu leaves. Aliara has two other teenage daughters, Zainab and Beauti. …
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January 22, 2017