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
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
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
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: 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
Kolkata: Virtually throwing a challenge to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who has given a seven-day deadline to them to lay down arms, the Maoists on Wednesday called a 24-hour bandh in Junglemahal on October 22, the day the deadline ends. "Make the bandh in Junglemahal on Saturday a success against the injustice meted out to the people of the area," Maoist state committee secretary Akash, who escaped a...
08:02 PM, Oct 19, 2011
Kolkata: Former CPI(M) minister Sushanta Ghosh has been remanded in judicial custody for 14 days. Ghosh was arrested in connection with the skeletons recovered from near his ancestral home in West Midnapore. The former minister has already been in CID remand for 11 days. Ghosh was arrested in connection with the skeletons recovered from his near ancestral home in West Midnapore which are believed to be murdered Trinamool workers. Ghosh...
06:43 PM, Aug 20, 2011
Kolkata: Former CPI(M) minister Sushanta Ghosh, arrested in connection with recovery of skeletons near his residence, was taken to SSKM Hospital here late Saturday night after having complained of uneasiness. The sitting MLA from Garbeta, arrested on August 11, complained of discomfort during marathon grilling at the CID headquarters here and was rushed to the hospital for some tests, CID officials said. The CPI(M) strongman in West Midnapore was straightway...
07:34 AM, Aug 14, 2011
Midnapore/Kolkata: An unspecified number of cartridges were seized during a search of three residences of arrested former CPI(M) minister Sushanta Ghosh in West Midnapore district and Kolkata on Saturday, police sources said. The cartridges were found from the Benchapra residence in West Midnapore from near where seven skeletons were dug up from a pit on June two, while another residence at Chandrakona in district and one at DL Khan Road...
06:47 PM, Aug 13, 2011
Kolkata: Former CPI(M) minister Sushanta Ghosh's arrest in connection with a nine-year-old mass murder case in Bengal's West Midnapore district may lead to further political violence. The changed political ambience in Bengal has been stinging the CPI(M) real hard. A Midnapore court rejected Ghosh's bail plea and remanded him in CID custody for a week. Ghosh allegedly masterminded the murder of seven Trinamool Congress workers nine years ago and remained...
11:41 AM, Aug 13, 2011
Kolkata: One Maoist was killed and another injured on Tuesday in a gun battle with security forces in West Bengal's West Midnapore district, police said. Acting on intelligence inputs that a group of armed rebels had taken shelter at Baxibandh forest near Lalgarh, the security personnel conducted a raid early Tuesday. "The members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist, led by squad leader Tota were hiding in the Baxibandh forest....
12:52 PM, Jan 04, 2011
Sankarila, West Midnapore: A villager has been killed and 10 others including three policemen have been injured in an exchange of fire between members of the People's Committee Against Police Atrocities and the police near Sankarila in West Midnapore. This happened after police had gone to investigate a suspected PCAPA camp. A villager was killed in the crossfire. The OC Uttam Debnath and three other cops were injured in the...
10:26 AM, Nov 04, 2010
Trains won't ply at night in certain parts of West Bengal till June 1 as the Maoists are observing a black week. ...
08:59 AM, May 29, 2010
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