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
Midnapore: Former CPI (M) minister Sushanta Ghosh, arrested in connection with the skeleton recovery case, got no relief from a local court on Monday which rejected his bail plea and extended his judicial custody by 14 days. Chief Judicial Magistrate Manoj Rai rejected his bail prayer along with six others accused in the case. Another accused Baidyanath Santra, arrested on September 1 from Piyasala village, recorded his statement in the...
05:20 PM, Sep 05, 2011
Tamluk: A fresh FIR was lodged against arrested CPI-M MLA Sushanta Ghosh and former party MP Lakshman Seth and 66 others today by the wife of a Trinamool Congress supporter, who is missing for the past 10 years. Anima Das filed an FIR at the Baratola police station at Khejuri, adjacent to Nandigram, claiming that the skeleton found during the earthwork for Bajkul Jaleswar Primary School on Monday was that...
08:58 PM, Aug 23, 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, who was hospitalised after being arrested in connection with recovery of skeletons from near his residence, was on Wednesday discharged from the facility. CID sources said Ghosh, the CPI(M) MLA from Garbeta, would be produced before a Midnapore court later in the day as his seven-day CID remand ends on Wednesday. Ghosh was arrested by the CID on August 9 after the Chief Judicial...
11:31 AM, Aug 17, 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
Midnapore: Former CPI(M) minister Susanta Ghosh, a key accused in a case of murder, was arrested on Thursday by the CID after a local court rejected his anticipatory bail. Chief Judicial Magistrate (Midnapore), Manoj Rai dismissed the conditional bail granted by the court on July 26 to Ghosh, the former Paschim Anchal Unnayan Affairs minister. The bail was rejected by the magistrate after a report by the CID that the...
09:19 PM, Aug 11, 2011
Kolkata: A court in West Bengal's West Midnapore district on Sunday sent two Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leaders to 14 days judicial custody for their alleged role in the January 7 Netai shootings which left nine people dead and several injured, police said. "Abani Singh and Ashwini Chlak were presented before the Jhargram court and remanded to judicial custody for 14 days," Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) Superintendent of...
06:55 PM, Feb 27, 2011
Kolkata: A Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) worker was shot dead by Maoists in West Bengal's West Midnapore district, police said on Saturday. "The locals informed about the bullet-ridden body of Bablu Mahato (a local CPI-M worker) lying in Beliabera village in Jhargram sub-division of the district," said West Midnapore Additional Police Superintendent (operation), Mukesh Kumar. "Maoists' posters were recovered from the spot, which read that Bablu was killed for...
12:56 PM, Feb 19, 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
New Delhi/Kolkata: The battle between Centre and West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee over Union Home Minister P Chidambaram's letter asking him to rein in armed Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI(M))cadres to the state government has intensified. The Home Ministry claimed that Chidambaram's letter to the West Bengal Chief Minister was sent by speed post while the state government has been complaining that the letter was leaked to the media...
11:44 AM, Dec 29, 2010
Kolkata: A TMC worker was killed on Saturday in the troubled West Midnapore district in West Bengal that has been facing political violence. Locals allege that CPM cadres are responsible for the murder. The police investigation was on. The TMC worker was found dead on Saturday at Golator area of West Midnapore The incident came just two days after Home Minister P Chidambaram wrote to West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb...
04:31 PM, Dec 26, 2010
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
Task to kill WB CM was entrusted to Kishenji by Maoists' politburo. ...
11:57 AM, Mar 06, 2010
Twenty four jawans of the EFR were massacred by Naxals on Monday. ...
12:13 AM, Feb 18, 2010
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The scale of the attack has forced the Centre to rethink strategies. ...
12:38 AM, Feb 17, 2010
