Tag: Naxalbari

Two Bihar men killed, five hurt in Naxalbari car collision

According to the Police, an Alto car was coming from Kishanganj in Bihar, while a Mahindra Scorpio rammed into it on the road.

January 30, 2023

Dudhia dengue: Naxalbari on alert

Twenty-nine cases of dengue have been found at Dudhia near Siliguri this month, something that health officials said was unprecedented

July 31, 2021

65 fresh Covid-19 cases in Darjeeling district

Twenty-four of the new cases were from the Siliguri Municipal Corporation, one from Kharibari, three from Sukna, four from Kurseong Municipality, 23 from Matigara, one from Mirik, eight from Naxalbari, and one from Takdah.

December 5, 2020

Thirty Bagdogra houses built on govt land razed

"We were not given any prior notice for the evection, and they came all of a sudden today and started demolishing the houses, despite the fact that we produced land ownership documents," said the locals.

June 28, 2019

Kanu Sanyal Trust plans library in Naxal leader’s village

"Kanu Sanyal was very fond of children and sports. The Trust realised it would be a proper way to pay him respect through a library built here by keeping the children in mind," said a member of his Trust.

May 8, 2019

Naxalbari: The Bengali play unfolding saga of three generations

The play centred on an urban middle-class Bengali family of elderly Somnath and Jaya, who are outspoken Naxal supporters and were once firebrand Naxalites of the early 70s of the last century.

March 27, 2019

Story of a passionate chronicler

Revolutionary and iconoclast Saroj Dutta’s only weapon was his razor-sharp, fearless pen that never stopped him from putting down on paper what he felt was wrong with the party he once proudly belonged to.

July 29, 2018

Darj Left takes out rally to observe Karl Marx’s 200th b’day, protests against TMC

To mark the 200 years birth day celebration of Karl Marx ~ who developed the theory of communism ~ the Darjeeling district CPI-M on Saturday adopted a resolution to take out a rally at Naxalbari, famous for Naxalite-Maoist insurgency, on 8 May protesting against the present political state of affairs led by the Trinamul Congress...

May 6, 2018

Siliguri sub-div to get two more colleges, ITIs

The state’s higher education department has sanctioned two more degree colleges for the Siliguri sub-division–one at Ghoshpukur in the Phansidewa block and another at Hatighisha in Naxalbari. Apart from these two colleges, two more Industrial Training Institutes (ITI), one at Phasidewa and another at Batasi under the Siliguri Mahukuma Parishad (SMP) will also start functioning...

March 20, 2018

Maoism in Bengal

On 25 May 1967, nine women farmers and two kids were killed in police firing in Naxalbari. The previous day, 24 May, is however remembered as Naxalbari Day and the 25th as Shaheed Divas or Martyrs’ Day. The police had fired on the poor peasantry and bargadars. It was with the blood of these peasants,...

July 2, 2017

Brutality and dreams

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. ~Andrea Dworkin The fiftieth anniversary of the Naxalbari movement has predictably generated mixed emotions, ranging from romantic reminiscing of left-leaning ideologues to virulent bashing from right-wing followers, who have debunked it as...

June 3, 2017

Maoists on the make

On the 50th anniversary of the Naxalbari uprising, a direly distressing trend is evident in Jharkhand ~ a hotbed of Naxalite activity. Indeed, the neighbouring states of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand exemplify cases of role-reversal, indeed two sides of the extremist coin half a century after the spark was lit by the peasantry in Naxalbari… a...

May 25, 2017

Crimson anniversary

Today, 24 May, marks the 50th anniversary of the Naxalbari uprising. On that day in 1967, a police inspector was killed by an arrow that came from a crowd of farmers. The police retaliated the next day, firing on another crowd, killing eleven people, including eight women and two infants. At a recent meeting with...

May 23, 2017

Bengal couple with whom Shah ate food, forced to join TMC: BJP

The BJP on Wednesday claimed that a couple who had a lunch with party President Amit Shah during his visit to Naxalbari in April, were abducted and forcibly made to join the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal. Raju Mahali and his wife Geeta had hogged media limelight when Shah ate food at the tribal...

May 3, 2017

Amit Shah launches BJP’s ‘Vistar Yatra’ from Naxalbari

BJP chief Amit Shah on Tuesday lunched at a tribal's house, and knocked on the doors of the locals here as part of an intensive booth-level mass contact programme in Naxalabari block — the cradle of the 50-year-old Maoist movement in India — in northern West Bengal's Darjeeling district. Shah held a meeting of Bharatiya...

April 25, 2017

Amit Shah has lunch at tribal’s house in Bengal

BJP president Amit Shah on Monday had lunch at the house of a tribal in Darjeeling district. Shah sat on the floor of Raju Mahali's house at Dakkhin Katiajote village in Naxalbari area and had rice, moong dal, 'potol' fry, squash curry, salad and 'papad', served on a banana leaf. BJP West Bengal unit president...

April 25, 2017