West Bengal

Woman jumps in front of train with nine-month-old son

First Kisan Rail from South India chugs off with fruits to Delhi

3:09 pm September 9, 2020

Amaravati: Connecting the farms to the agricultural markets, the first ‘Kisan Rail’ from south India chugged off from Anantapuramu on Wednesday carrying 322 tonnes of fresh fruits to the famous Azadpur Mandi in the national Capital. Union Minister for Agriculture Narendra Singh Tomar and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy flagged off the inaugural Kisan Rail, the second in the […]

12-year-old boy charred to death in J-K's Samba

21 boys from Bihar rescued from traffickers in Kolkata

7:09 pm September 7, 2020

Kolkata: Twenty-one minor boys hailing from Bihar were rescued from a moving bus in central Kolkata‘s Babughat area on Monday when the entire West Bengal is under lockdown, a police officer said. Three persons were arrested for their alleged involvement in trafficking of the boys, he said. “These boys were being trafficked from Bihar’s Samastipur […]

BJP woman leader shot at in Bengal

6:49 pm September 7, 2020

Diamond Harbour (WB): A leader of the BJP women’s wing was shot at by unidentified miscreants in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on Monday, police said. Radharani Naskar, Vice-President of a unit of the Bharatiya Janata Mahila Morcha in Bisnupur area of the district, was seriously injured after gunmen fired at her near […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Only one containment zone in Kolkata

4:02 pm September 6, 2020

Kolkata: The number of containment zone in Kolkata has come down to one, according to the latest list released by the West Bengal government. The previous list of August 23 had 17 containment zones for Covid-19 prevalence in the city. The city at present has only one containment zone at Umesh Datta Lane in Girish […]

Wearing a ‘gamcha’, Mukherjee used to walk 2 km barefoot to school in monsoon: friend

9:26 pm September 1, 2020

Kolkata: Pranab Mukherjee, who headed several key ministries before becoming the President, used to walk two kilometres barefoot while going to a village school in West Bengal’s Birbhum district wearing a ‘gamcha’ (traditional towel) during the monsoon in the 1940s, his friend Prof Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay said. Reminiscing his association with Mukherjee for nearly seven decades since […]