New Delhi: Lok Sabha was adjourned on Thursday without transacting any business as a mark of respect for Trinamool Congress member Ambika Banerjee who died early this morning.
Banerjee, who was an MP from Howrah, was 84. As soon as the House met for the day, Speaker Meira Kumar condoled his death.
Banerjee was a member of the West Bengal Assembly five times and was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2009. He was a member of the Standing Committee on Urban Development and Committee on Public Undertakings.
Lok Sabha also condoled the death of former member S Kuppuswamy, who was a DMK MP from Chennai North. He was 86. The Speaker adjourned the House till Friday after members observed silence as a mark of respect to them....
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11:51 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Howrah: At least 15 people have gone missing after a boat capsized in West Bengal's Howrah district on Wednesday. The incident happened when the boat was going to Garden Reach from Sankrail. The boat was carrying 45 people and bikes. Reports say the boat capsized due to overcrowding. The search and rescue operation is on for the missing 15. Divers and river traffic police have reached the sport. ...
11:54 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Five people have gone missing after a mechanised country boat capsized in West Bengal's Howrah district on Sunday. The search was on for the missing five even as 32 people were rescued. ...
09:30 PM, Mar 17, 2013
A school teacher was arrested on Thursday for allegedly molesting a girl student of Prashasta High School at Prashasta in Howrah district. ...
02:05 AM, Feb 08, 2013
Kolkata: The police claim to have cracked the parcel bomb case in Howrah, in which a woman journalist was killed. The police have arrested three men, identified as Abhishek Roy, Bishwajit Majhi, and Shubhankar Das. The alleged mastermind, identified as Debashish Dey is still at large. Two police teams have been dispatched to Bangalore and Mumbai to search for Debashish. The police say the motive was revenge since the target,...
12:12 PM, Oct 04, 2012
Kolkata: In a shocking incident, a woman journalist living in the Howrah district of West Bengal, was killed as a parcel bomb that had been couriered to her exploded. According to the police, the woman died on the spot while her husband received critical injuries. The woman worked as a freelancer and, said her daughter, had received several threats in the past. The police is trying to trace the sender....
03:05 PM, Sep 27, 2012
New Delhi: Passengers will soon be able to use smart cards for buying train tickets on the busy Delhi-Howrah and Delhi-Mumbai routes and also in the Kolkata Metro. "A pan-India multi-purpose smart card is going to be launched by railways in two most sought after routes on a pilot basis shortly and the modalities are being worked for it," said a senior Railway Ministry official involved in the project. Aptly...
04:57 PM, Sep 02, 2012
Kolkata: Dengue has afflicted 269 more persons in the metropolis in the past 24 hours, official reports said on Saturday. Apart from Kolkata, other districts hit by the vector-borne disease are North and South 24 Parganas, Howrah and Nadia districts, the reports said. The website of the health department said that dengue has so far claimed three lives in the metropolis where 1,160 persons have been afflicted. Health department sources...
09:48 PM, Sep 01, 2012
Howrah: A teenage girl was allegedly raped by a youth in Krishanrampur village in Howrah district, police said on Sunday. The class nine student was raped on Saturday night by Sheikh Shahrukh at a desolate place in Krishanrampur village in the district, they said. An FIR has been lodged against the absconding accused while the further probes are on, they added. ...
11:23 PM, Aug 26, 2012
Kolkata: A school student in West Bengal's Howrah district allegedly committed suicide by jumping to her death from the institution's roof after she was pulled up for chatting with her classmates during an examination on Thursday. The 11-year-old class 6 student of St Dominique Savio School was slapped by the teacher, who then took away her answer script and asked the girl to stand outside the classroom, according to a...
01:42 AM, Jul 27, 2012
Kolkata: The police in West Bengal have suspended a sub inspector after a 38-year-old rape victim alleged police callousness. The woman says she was robbed and raped on Wednesday evening, but was denied help by a traffic policeman nearby. The victim says she was bleeding profusely, but the traffic policeman asked her to go to a police station to lodge a complaint. When she did, the staff at the police...
01:25 PM, Jul 26, 2012
Guwahati: The man who figured most prominently in the video that went viral showing a mob molesting a teenaged girl in Guwahati was finally arrested after being on the run for two weeks. Amar Jyoti Kalita surrendered on Monday. CNN-IBN has traced his movements across the country from the time of the incident. For days he was just a series of pictures and a grinning symbol of the ugliest molestation...
07:48 AM, Jul 24, 2012
Kolkata: In a shocking incident, a mentally ill woman has been allegedly raped and murdered inside a government-funded shelter home in West Bengal. The state CID has taken over the probe and is unearthing remains of more bodies of girls which have been illegally disposed. As many as 10 people have been arrested in the case. The body of Gudiya, the 32-year-old mentally ill woman, was found buried inside the...
06:44 PM, Jul 19, 2012
Howrah: A fire broke out in a garment manufacturing factory in the Foreshore Road in Howrah district on Friday night, fire brigade sources said. The fire broke out in the garment manufacturing factory at around 7 pm. As many as 17 fire tenders rushed to the spot to control the blaze, they said adding there was no report of any casualty or injury. Fire Services Minister Javed Khan also rushed...
11:43 PM, Jul 13, 2012
New Delhi: Nearly twenty bogies of a goods train carrying coal got derailed near Mughalsarai in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday night causing a major hold-up on the arterial Delhi-Howrah rail route. The incident took place on the Gaya-Mughalsarai section at around 9 pm. While no casualties have been reported, three railway lines are said to be badly affected. All trains on the Delhi-Howrah route have been halted. These include the...
08:47 AM, Jul 13, 2012
New Delhi: Body of fifteen-year-old Roshan Parasi, who fell into a 70-feet well on Sunday, was pulled out after 11 hours by the rescuers. The body has been sent to the Kona Block hospital in Howrah. The rescue efforts were hampered by the rain and wind. West Bengal Disaster Management and Fire Services minister Javed Khan, who supervised the operations, said some local well diggers along with disaster management and...
02:43 AM, Jun 25, 2012
Howrah: In a tragic incident that bore striking resemblance to the Gurgaon tragedy wherein a 4-year-old girl died after falling into a 70-feet borewell, a teenager in Howrah, West Bengal, fell into a well of around the same depth on Sunday afternoon. Fifteen-year-old Roshan Parasi fell into the well at around 3.30 pm. The rescue operations are on, albeit rain and wind are said to be hampering the efforts. A...
09:30 PM, Jun 24, 2012
Five people died and 12 got injured after five bogies of the 18-coach Doon Express got derailed near Mahrawa station in Jaunpur district in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday afternoon. ...
04:41 PM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: Five people died and twelve got injured after five bogies of the 18-coach Doon express got derailed near Mahrawa station in Jaunpur district in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday afternoon. Doon Express 13009 was going to Dehradun from Howrah. Most people have been rescued and the injured have been taken to nearby hospitals. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has demanded a probe into the mishap. The District Magistrate...
01:44 PM, May 31, 2012
Howrah: Two men have been sent to police custody by a local court in West Bengal's Howrah for allegedly raping a newly-married woman in connivance with her own husband who is absconding. "Kartik Das and Raju Prasad were sent to custody by the court for their involvement in gang-raping a 19-year-old married woman. Her husband, who is suspected to have facilitated the crime, is absconding," Howrah Deputy Commissioner of Police...
04:49 PM, Mar 23, 2012
