Saturday 21 November '09
The state government is trying to combat Maoists and woo tribals in West Midnapore by normalising the situations.Wednesday 18 November '09
The Special Task Force of the Kolkata police on Tuesday arrested three Bangladeshi nationals, whom they claim are members of the Shahid Bilal group, a terrorist outfit in Pakistan.Saturday
14 November '09Just four days after arresting People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCAPA) leader Chhatradhar Mahato on September 26, the state DGP had announced at a press conference....Friday
13 November '09Just four days after arresting People’s Committee against Police Atrocities leader Chhatradhar Mahato on September 26, the state DGP had announced at a press conference that the tribal leader had an LIC policy worth Rs 1 crore, a house in Mayurbhanj in Orissa and owned illegal arms.Thursday
12 November '09After 32 years of Left Front ruling, the CPM-led Kolkata Municipal Corporation has taken on the ruling party over encroachments on footpaths by party offices.Tuesday
10 November '09A postmortem of three recent Maoist attacks — Gadchiroli (in Maharastra), Sankrail and Gidhni (in the Jamboni police station area) in West Midnapore...Tuesday
10 November '09Atindranath Dutta, the police officer who was abducted by Maoists and held captive for two days before being released, today reported back for duty as the officer-in-charge at the Sankrail police station.Tuesday
10 November '09Atindranath Dutta, the police officer who was abducted by Maoists and held captive for two days before being released...Saturday
7 November '09A day ahead of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s visit to West Midnapore, a huge cache of arms, including two rocket launchers....Saturday
7 November '09Atindranath Dutta, the officer-in-charge of Sankrail police station in Jhargram who was abducted by Maoists last month and held captive for two days before being dramatically released in the presence of a media contingent...Saturday
7 November '09A day ahead of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s planned visit to West Midnapore, the police today seized a huge cache of arms...Friday
6 November '09“If I win, my first step would be to revive the PG hospital and giving it a facelift in the first year of my term,” says Firhad Hakim, the Trinamool Congress councillor who is now in the fray for Alipore Assembly seat, vacated by Tapas Paul who was elected MP in May 2009.Tuesday
3 November '09Anti-Naxal commandos have been sitting almost idle in West Midnapore for almost four months in the absence of intelligence inputs from state CID, IB.Tuesday
3 November '09Even as the Maoist violence continues unabated in the Jungle Mahal area, four companies of Commando Battalion for Resolute Action...Friday
30 October '09The CID arrested a staffer of a private resort in Jhargram on Wednesday night for allegedly supplying arms and money to the Maoists.Thursday
29 October '09For three months, the families of two policemen — sub-inspector Kanchan Garai and constable Sabir Mollah, who were allegedly kidnapped by Maoists from near Lalgarh on July 20 — left no stone unturned to secure their release.Thursday
29 October '09Previously a Trinamool Congress supporter from a non-descript Lalgarh village in West Midnapore, Chhatradhar Mahato shot to prominence with his six-month seizure of Lalgarh....Wednesday
28 October '09Even as the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) faces charges of providing undue financial assistance to its private partner...Tuesday
27 October '09Even after the crackdown of the Kolkata police and state government against non-LPG (two stroke) autos, these illegal vehicles continue to ply on city roads under the ‘green cover’, say senior officers with the city police.Monday
26 October '09After failing to execute the Basic Services for Urban Poor (BSUP) projects under the JNNURM scheme, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has come up with a revised proposal that projects an increase of 120 per cent in the cost.Monday
26 October '09Seventeen days have passed since Deputy Commissioner (DC-II) of the Security Control of Kolkata police, Satya Ranjan Roy, was issued a showcause notice after his car knocked down Czar’s Hawk — a horse of the Kolkata Mounted Police.Thursday
22 October '09After Maoist leader Kishenji demanded release of its women cadres, who were recently arrested from the Lalgarh area in exchange for the release of abducted police officer...Thursday
22 October '09The Tuesday’s attack by the Maoists on the Sankrail police station in which two police personnel were killed and the officer-in-charge was abducted was led by Suchitra Mahato — woman commander of the ultras in the area.Thursday
22 October '09One of the names coming to the fore as intelligence officials investigate Tuesday’s Maoist ambush on the Sankrail police station in West Midnapore is that of Suchitra Mahato....Wednesday
21 October '09In the first such attack on a police station in West Bengal, a team of at least 50 heavily armed Maoists — including at least five women...
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