Bengals

Basalt mining work resumes at West Bengal’s Deocha Pachami coal block, activists allege crackdown by administration

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Basalt mining work resumes at West Bengal’s Deocha Pachami coal block, activists allege crackdown by administration

The gathering of protestors on March 6, 2025, at Sagarbandi under Mohammed Bazar block in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, close to where basalt mining work has started since February this year. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Basalt mining work at the Deocha-Pachami-Dewanganj-Harisingha (DPDH) coal project resumed on Thursday (March 6, 2025) evening, March 6, 2025, … Read more

Jailed Maoist leader brought to Bengal’s Burdwan University, enrolled for PhD

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Jailed Maoist leader brought to Bengal’s Burdwan University, enrolled for PhD

Jailed Maoist leader Arnab Dam, who stood first in the PhD admission test at West Bengal’s Burdwan University, was brought to the campus on Monday and enrolled in history. The process of counselling began on Monday. Dam is serving a life sentence for his role in the 2010 attack on an Eastern Frontier Rifles camp … Read more

Kanchanjungha Express collides with goods train near Bengal’s New Jalpaiguri

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Kanchanjungha Express collides with goods train near Bengal’s New Jalpaiguri

The Agartala-Sealdah Kanchanjunga Express collided with a goods train near New Jalpaiguri in West Bengal on June 17, 2024. Photo:  Special arrangement The Sealdah-bound Kanchanjungha Express collided with a goods train on June 17 morning near New Jalpaiguri, a senior North Frontier Railway (NFR) official said. There are unconfirmed reports of injury to a few persons … Read more

11 killed in lightning strikes in Bengal’s Malda

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11 killed in lightning strikes in Bengal’s Malda

Relatives of a lightning strike victim mourn, in West Bengal’s Malda on May 16, 2024. | Photo Credit: ANI Eleven people were killed on Thursday afternoon after being struck by lightning in various places across Malda district in West Bengal, a government official said. Several persons were injured in the lightning strikes. Chief Minister Mamata … Read more

Goods train collides with stationary Maintenance train at West Bengal’s Ondagram station, services restored

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Goods train collides with stationary Maintenance train at West Bengal’s Ondagram station, services restored

Several boggies derailed after two goods trains collided with each other near West Bengal’s Bankura, in the wee hours of June 25, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Around eight wagons overturned after a goods train derailed and collided with a maintenance train at the Ondagram railway station in the Bankura district of West Bengal on … Read more

Police say prime accused arrested in alleged rape of teenage girl as violent protests rock Bengal’s Kaliaganj

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Police say prime accused arrested in alleged rape of teenage girl as violent protests rock Bengal’s Kaliaganj

Security personnel try to control the situation after violent protests by locals over the death of a minor girl, in North Dinajpur district of West Bengal. | Photo Credit: PTI A 20-year-old man was arrested on April 22 in connection with the alleged rape and murder of a teenage girl in West Bengal’s North Dinajpur … Read more

Man barks at govt. official in West Bengal’s Bankura, gets name corrected on ration card

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Man barks at govt. official in West Bengal’s Bankura, gets name corrected on ration card

Man barks at govt. official in West Bengal to get his name corrected on his ration card. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement A man in West Bengal’s Bankura district barked like a dog before a government official to get his name corrected on his ration card. Srikanti Kumar Dutta has been running around government offices for a correction in … Read more

‘Co-WIN glitches’ drag down Bengal’s vaccine turnout by 17% – ET HealthWorld

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‘Co-WIN glitches’ drag down Bengal’s vaccine turnout by 17% – ET HealthWorld

KOLKATA: There was a 17% drop in attendance among health workers in Bengal on Monday — the second day of vaccination in the state — compared with Saturday, the inaugural day of the countrywide launch of the Covid-19 inoculation drive, primarily because of a malfunctioning Co-WIN app. Though Bengal had targeted to administer the vaccine … Read more