Tag: West Midnapore
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Shoddy works blamed for bridge collapse
As soon as the bridge started swinging and some cracking sounds were heard, we immediately ran to one end of the bridge. By then another end of the bridge had collapsed. When it fell, a roof and front wall of a house which is situated beside the bridge, also collapsed. Though no one was injured, but there was every possibility of casualties A villager
November 13, 2019 -
Madhyamik top score of 694 is record in WBBSE Class 10 history
Sougata Das from East Midnapur scored 694 to secure the first position in this year’s Madhyamik examinations
May 22, 2019 -
Cash seized from car of BJP candidate Bharati Ghosh in West Midnapore: Police
Ghosh said the amount was for her personal expenses.
May 10, 2019 -
Death of Sabars
The coincidence is cruelly ironic. While rumbustious scenes prevailed in the West Bengal Assembly over the reported starvation deaths of seven members of the Sabar community in West Midnapore, a food festival was inaugurated with matching fanfare in upmarket New Town, on the periphery of Kolkata. ‘Ahare Bengla’ was organised by the state government. From …
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November 28, 2018 -
Police arrest four suspected Maoists in West Midnapore
The police seized some Maoists documents and literatures from them and they are being interrogated, said Alok Rajoria, Superintendent of Police of West Midnapore.
November 15, 2018 -
Doctor, nursing home to pay Rs 20 lakh for patient’s death
The West Bengal State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (WBSCDRC) has directed a general surgeon and a West Midnapore-based nursing home with which he is associated to pay Rs 20 lakh compensation to the family of a deceased patient whose death is blamed on negligence in treatment. WBSCDRC has issued a directive on 30 August asking …
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September 2, 2018 -
A painful signal
Social sector benefits, notably rice at Rs 2 a kg and 100 days of work under the Mahatma Gandhi NREGS, have scarcely been able to address the grinding privation in the Junglemahal belt that straddles West Bengal’s Purulia, Bankura, West Midnapore and the newly-created Jhargram districts. Whether or not this failure on the food front …
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August 18, 2018 -
Bengal CM Banerjee asks district administration to take action against hospitals flouting rules
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday chaired an administrative review meeting of West Midnapore district here. The meeting was attended by ministers and top government officials and police officers. The chief minister directed the West Midnapore district administration to take strict action against those private hospitals and nursing homes which are not following government rules …
March 23, 2018 -
Mamata remembers Netai victims
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday paid homage to those gunned down in Netai village in West Midnapore district on this day (January 7th) in 2011. “On this day in 2011, innocent villagers in Netai were killed by indiscriminate firing,” Banerjee wrote on her Twitter handle this morning. The firing allegedly carried out …
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January 7, 2018 -
A decade after Singur~II
The third line of argument maybe termed as the historical necessity of industrialisation. This argument was advanced by Amartya Sen. The proponents of this line of thought claim, by citing examples from the history of Western Europe, that as industrialisation is an inevitable stage after agriculture, the farmers of Bengal are expected to part with …
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September 19, 2017