Saturday 7 November '09
A day ahead of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s visit to West Midnapore, a huge cache of arms, including two rocket launchers....Saturday 7 November '09
Atindranath 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...Saturday
17 October '09After the arrest of People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities chief Chhatradhar Mahato, Asit Mahato, a farmer, is emerging as the new leader of the outfit and will probably be filling up the leadership vacuum in the PCAPA.Friday
9 October '09The confusion over application of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act has led a virtual standoff between the state’s investigating agencies and a section of the judiciary.Monday
28 September '09Despite the tall claims of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation of making the city hoarding-free and reducing “visual pollution”...Friday
25 September '09In a step ahead of most Puja organisers in Kolkata, a Puja committee at Sonarpur in South 24-Parganas has attempted to recreate the havoc caused by Cyclone Aila.Thursday
17 September '09At a time when prices of essential commodities have witnessed a steep rise, the state government’s inefficiency has left a stock of nearly 3,800 metric tonnes of pulses unfit for human consumption.Tuesday
15 September '09Four-storeyed buildings with a big hall for the artisans to make their idols in hygienic conditions. Clean and broad roads with proper lights.Monday
14 September '09Fourteen days after its announcement that sugar and mustard oil will be supplied through the Public Distribution System (PDS) from September 1, the state government is yet to keep its promise.Saturday
5 September '09The cop-realtor nexus seems to have taken its toll on the investigation of the Vedic Village arson case.
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