Jhargram: Class XI students of a school in West Midnapore district who had failed in the annual examination, on Thursday locked up the all the 50-odd staff and secretary after their meeting failed to yield any result. The students of the Nayabasan Janakalyan Vidyapeeth at Gopiballabhpur said they would not open the gate till they all were promoted to class XII, said Ashok Pattanaik, secretary of the school's managing committee....
01:51 PM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: Fresh clashes were reported between jawans of the Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) and Counter Insurgency Force (CIF) at Salua in West Midnapore district of West Bengal after an EFR jawan's daughter was allegedly molested by a CIF personnel. The victim has filed a complaint at Kharagpur police station on Thursday. According to reports, EFR jawans and CIF personnel clashed over the issue. The police resorted to lathi-charge and...
05:12 PM, Mar 01, 2012
Kolkata: The long-pending drainage basin project involving the Kaliaghai, Kapaleswari and Baghai rivers in the flood-prone East and West Midnapore districts has got the green signal. The Rs 650.38-crore project for the two districts, which are struck by calamity almost every monsoon, was recently inaugurated by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who had taken a keen interest in its implementation. Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee was also present on the occasion....
12:52 PM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: Twenty-three people including 20 jawans were injured after villagers clashed with the security forces at Salua near Kharagpur in West Midnapore district of West Bengal. Sources said that the clashes took place following allegations that the jawans were trying to molest some local women at a rural fair on Friday evening. The injured were admitted to Kharagpur hospital. ...
12:34 PM, Feb 25, 2012
New Delhi: Jailed CPI(M) leader, Sushanto Ghosh, was released from the Alipore Central Jail, Kolkata, on Tuesday. He was jailed in August last year after 7 skeletons were recovered from near his ancestral house in West Midnapore. CPI(M) party cadres gathered in large numbers to welcome Ghosh and garlanded him with flowers and chanted slogans once he was out. The Supreme Court granted Ghosh interim bail last week. He has...
03:25 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: CPI(M) leader Sushanto Ghosh is set to walk free from Alipore Central jail in Kolkata on Tuesday. He was jailed in August last year after 7 skeletons were recovered from near his ancestral house in West Midnapore. The Supreme Court granted him interim bail last week. Ghosh has been in custody since August 11 last year after his arrest by the state CID for his alleged complicity in...
02:18 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Kolkata: The Rs 1.5 crore-prize money Premier League Soccer (PLS), that has already grossed over Rs 100 crore, is tentatively slated to begin March 24, with the final scheduled for May 6, the organisers said on Monday, while announcing Argentine 2006 World Cup skipper-Juan Pablo Sorin as the icon player of the Haldia franchisee. The franchisee, bought by the Grey Mind Communications, will be coached by former England star John...
11:58 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Kolkata: The much-anticipated Premier League Soccer (PLS) will kick off in West Bengal on March 24, with the final scheduled to be held on May 6, paving the way for a collision with the Indian Premier League. The likes of Fabio Cannavaro and Hernan Crespo, along with some of the world's renowned coaches, will arrive in the city early next month as the pre-season training will begin on March 3....
10:51 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Midnapore: A Maoist squad leader was killed on Sunday in an exchange of fire with joint security forces in Jamtal jungle in West Midnapore district, police said. Yudhistir Mahato alias Aryun was killed when security forces purportedly opened retaliatory fire after Maoists attacked them during a combing operation in the area. Police said the joint forces had raided the area on a tip-off that Mahato was holding a meeting in...
08:11 PM, Feb 05, 2012
Mamata Banerjee said the forces had to fire back at Kishenji, else 500 villagers would have lost their lives. ...
09:49 PM, Nov 27, 2011
Midnapore: Slain top Maoist leader Kishenji was shot six times and had received two splinter wounds during the the fatal encounter with security forces in West Midnapore district, according to autopsy reports. The bullets hit him in the chin, head, chest and other parts of the body, doctors, who conducted the autopsy, said. One of the shots appeared to have been fired from long-range of around 500 m, they added....
02:40 PM, Nov 27, 2011
West Midnapore: After the death of Kishenji, another major success by security forces was the surrender of key Maoist leaders Jagori Baskey and Rajaram Soren. CNN-IBN travelled to Jagori's home to find out how her parents felt about the surrender. Far from media glare in a remote village called Bagdoba at the Purulia-West Midnapore border, an old couple works on a small patch of land. They would have gone unnoticed...
08:29 AM, Nov 27, 2011
New Delhi: The mother of Kishenji, the Maoist Who was killed on Thursday by joint forces in the outskirts of Jhargram, will file a petition in Calcutta High Court, demanding a judicial inquiry into the killing. The Magisterial inquest of the body has been conducted. Sources said that Kishenji's mother will file a plea demanding a judicial inquiry into the killing. Kishenji's body will be sent to Jhargram for a...
12:36 PM, Nov 25, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addressed a press conference with Maoist cadres Jagori Soren and her husband Rajaram, the two Maoists who surrendered on Thursday. This was for the first time in the country's history that a sitting Chief Minister addressed a joint Press Conference with two Maoists. The two are believed to be the masterminds of the February 2010 massacre of 24 jawans of the Eastern Frontier...
04:13 PM, Nov 17, 2011
New Delhi: Huge cache of arms has been recovered in West Midnapore district of West Bengal during the 72 hours combing operation. The recovery happened during a 72-hour combing operation. In the past 48 hours, joint forces have recovered 40 directional mines, 2 Insas, 1 SLR rifle, 250 cartridges and 100 kg explosives. The combing operation is on in the Jungle Mahal area, which includes West Midnapore, Purulia and Bankura...
12:07 PM, Nov 17, 2011
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