Kolkata, May 4 (UNI) West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose in a special report to the Union Home Ministry has recommended the deployment of Central Armed Forces in the border district of Murshidabad based on his visit there in the aftermath of the anti-Waqf bill violence that left three people dead, with scores of shops…
Kolkata, Apr 30 (UNI) 14 people lost their lives in a devastating fire that broke out in a hotel near Falpatti Machhua in central Kolkata’s Burrabazar, police said on Wednesday. “The fire broke out at Rituraj Hotel on Tuesday night. Fourteen bodies have been recovered so far, and several individuals have been rescued by emergency…
Kolkata, Apr 12 (UNI) Calcutta High Court on Saturday directed deployment of the Central Armed Forces in West Bengal’s trouble-torn Murshidabad district to assist the state administration to restore peace and normalcy, court sources said. A special division bench, headed by Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Raja Basu Chowdhury, after hearing both counsels ordered deployment…
Kolkata, Apr 12 (UNI) Police fired four rounds after tear gas shells and baton charge failed to disperse groups of violent protesters, who resorted to rioting and arson at Samserganj and Suti in Murshidabad district as part of protests against the Waqf (Amendment) Act, senior police officials said on Saturday. The protestors burnt vehicles, looted…
Kolkata, Apr 6 (UNI) A massive fire destroyed an entire lubricant oil factory at Domjur in Howrah, in which some 18 firefighting vehicles were deployed to combat the blaze, official sources said on Sunday. There were no reports of any human casualties in the blaze, which was first noticed around 2300 hours on Saturday. All…
Kolkata, Apr 6 (UNI) Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday greeted the people to mark Ram Navami, as the people of West Bengal are celebrating the birth of Lord Ram amid tight security across the state with special vigilance in all the determined sensitive areas, official sources said. “Greetings to all on the auspicious occasion…
Kolkata, Mar 5 (UNI) The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed the West Bengal government to file a comprehensive report by March 12 in relation to a violence in the premier institution in Jadavpur University campus during Education Minister Bratya Basu’s visit on Saturday last (March 1), official sources said. The court also directed the…
Kolkata, Feb 28 (UNI) Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Friday dashed off a letter to Election Commission of India (ECI) Gyanesh Kumar complaining against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accusing her of tarnishing the image of the national poll body. Adhikari said Banerjee, while addressing the Trinamool Congress workers at Netaji Indoor Stadium…
Bhubaneswar, Feb 25 (UNI) An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 on the Richter scale struck the Bay of Bengal near Odisha’s Puri early on Tuesday morning, with tremors being felt in Kolkata and several regions of West Bengal, said the National Center for Seismology (NCS). According to the NCS, the earthquake occurred at 6.10 a.m. on…
Kolkata, (UNI) Two policemen, including an ASI, were injured in a shootout at Goalpokhar in West Bengal’s North Dinajpur district, as miscreants opened fire and snatched an undertrial on Wednesday. The attack took place when the policemen were returning in a prison van from a court of law under Islampur sub-division, official sources said. The…
