Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Saturday lashed out at the union home ministry, saying it lacked seriousness in tackling the Maoist menace in West Bengal. She also accused the central government of giving ‘oxygen’ to the state’s ruling communists by deploying joint security forces in Lalgarh.
A day after the Maoists shot dead [...]
Suspected Maoists shot dead two men in Muriboni village of West Midnapore district in West Bengal, police said Friday. The killers reportedly accused the victims of being activists of Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and also serving as police informers.
Mintoo Ali and Nirmal Naik were called out of their houses and shot dead Thursday night. [...]
Tightening their net around Maoist leader Koteshwar Rao alias Kishanji, Police Thursday arrested three of his close associates from Lalgarh belt in West Midnapore district.
They were picked up during a raid in Lakhanpur village under Salboni police station. ‘These three are very close to Kishanji. Seven others were also picked up,’ West Midnapore district superintendent [...]
West Bengal Commerce and Industry Minister Nirupam Sen Wednesday said investment flow into the state has not dried up because of the violent protests over acquisition of farmland at Singur and Nandigram for industrial projects.
‘The state is still receiving a stream of investment proposals despite what has happened,’ Sen told reporters on the sidelines of [...]
Industry forum Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) Tuesday said the West Bengal government should only play the role of facilitator while acquiring land for industrial projects.
‘The state should play the role of facilitator in land acquisition matters, which should be left to the buyers and sellers,’ said Assocham secretary general D.S. [...]
The 17 missing picnickers in Sunday’s boat accident on Rupnarayan river in East Midnapore district still remained untraced Tuesday, despite officials saying search operations had been intensified. The victims’ weeping relatives protested and put up road blocks in Kolkata.
However, the administration said they had shifted focus to surface operations from the underwater hunt.
‘So far, not [...]
Amid fading chances of finding any of the victims alive, the authorities Monday continued search operations without any success for 17 people missing after a boat carrying picnickers capsized in West Bengal’s Rupnarayan river. Incensed relatives, meanwhile, blockaded city roads.
The missing included eight children while 20 picnickers were either rescued by locals or swam ashore [...]
A member each of the families giving their lands or homesteads for railway projects would be given jobs in addition to compensation, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee said here Monday.
‘If anybody gives his land or homestead for our projects, one member of the family will be given jobs in the railways. For this, we have [...]
Kolkata, Jan 4 (ANI): The rescue operation is on to trace the 16 people, who went missing, after their boat capsized in the river Rupnarayan in West Bengal on Sunday.
Around 29 people belonging to Kolkata were on a joy ride in river Rupnarayan in Kolaghat in east Midnapore district, but [...]
Kolkata, Jan 4 (IANS) A day after a boat carrying a group of picnickers capsized in the Rupnarayan river in West Bengal’s East Midnapore district, 17 people including eight children continued to be missing Monday.
Twenty picnickers were either rescued by locals or swam ashore after the boat capsized around 3 p.m. Sunday.
‘We’ve got altogether 17 [...]
Kolkata, Jan 3 (IANS) Around 15 people, including women and children, were missing after a boat carrying a picnic party capsized in Rupnarayan river in West Bengal’s East Midnapore district Sunday.
‘As per a rough estimate, 15 people travelling on the boat are still untraced. A majority of them are children,’ East Midnapore district Superintendent of [...]
Kolkata, Jan 3 (IANS) Around 15 people, among them several children, were missing after a boat carrying a picnic party capsized in Rupnarayan river in West Bengal’s East Midnapore district Sunday.
‘As per a rough estimate, 15 people travelling on the boat are still untraced. A majority of them are children,’ East Midnapore district Superintendent of [...]
Kolkata, Jan 3 (IANS) Three Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) activists were killed by suspected Maoists in the troubled West Midnapore district of West Bengal, police said Sunday.
While Jhantu Patra was killed at Bamal area near the Lalgarh belt Saturday night, the bodies of Hiteshwar Singh and Ananth Singh were found at Belpahari Sunday afternoon.
According [...]
Kolkata, Jan 3 (IANS) A CPI-M activist was killed by suspected Maoists in strife-torn West Midnapore district of West Bengal, a police official said Sunday.
‘Jhontu Patra was called by a group of unidentified miscreants last (Saturday) night and later killed. His body was found this morning near Bamal in the Lalgarh belt,’ he said.
The officials [...]
Kolkata, Jan 2 (IANS) At least two suspected Maoists were killed and one injured in a gun battle between the police and the ultras in West Bengal’s trouble-torn Lalgarh region Saturday, police said.
‘Two people were killed and one injured during a serious encounter between the Maoists and the joint forces,’ a police source told IANS.
The [...]
West Midnapore (West Bengal), Jan 2 (ANI): Many trains were stranded near Sardiha station in West Midnapore district of West Bengal following planting of land mines on railway tracks by Maoist groups.
The banned militant group Communist Party of India (Maoist) has called [...]
Kolkata, Jan 2 (IANS) Train services were hit in West Bengal, Orissa and Jharkhand Saturday after Maoists placed two boxes and wires on rail track in West Bengal’s Midnapore district that authorities feared were bombs.
The discovery forced the authorities to cancel trains from 2.30 a.m. between Banstala and Sardia railway stations in Jhargram division. A [...]
Kolkata, Dec 31 (IANS) Suspected Maoists gunned down two Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) supporters in West Bengal’s West Midnapore district, police said Thursday.
Ananda Singh and Konaram Singh were abducted from their home in Shimulpal village and dragged for over a kilometer by a group of heavily armed rebels Wednesday night.
‘Their bodies were found this [...]
Kolkata, Dec 31 (IANS) Passengers of New Delhi-Puri Purushottam Express had a narrow escape as suspected Maoists damaged railway tracks at two different places in West Bengal�s West Midnapore district Wednesday, throwing train services haywire.
Suspected Maoist ultras cut the connectors between two tracks and tried to bend the line between Jhargram and Khatkula stations, [...]
Kolkata, Dec 30 (IANS) Without naming the Maoists, Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday condemned subversive activities targeting train passengers and described the saboteurs as ‘cowards’.
Banerjee’s comments came hours after suspected Maoist ultras cut the connectors between two tracks and tried to bend the line between Jhargram and Khatkula stations of West Midnapore district a short [...]
Kolkata, Dec 30 (IANS) Passengers and employees on the Puri-bound Purushottam Express from New Delhi had a close shave Wednesday as suspected Maoist ultras cut the connectors on two tracks between Jhargram and Khatkula stations of West Midnapore district.
A South Eastern Railway (SER) spokesman said the incident was discovered in the early hours of the [...]
Midnapore, Dec 29 (ANI): The Maoists-backed People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA) has called for a two-day shutdown in West Midnapore district here.
PCAPA members forced thirty-one supporters of the CPM to join them. The event took place at Salboni, where the [...]
Kolkata, Dec 24 (IANS) The bodies of two Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) workers were recovered Thursday from Belpahari area in West Bengal’s West Midnapore district, the regional TV channel 24 reported. They were believed killed by suspected Maoists.
Maoists gutted the houses of four CPI-M workers in Goaltore area of the district after ransacking [...]
Kolkata, Dec 23 (IANS) Two people were killed by suspected Maoists in West Bengal’s trouble-torn West Midnapore district and their bodies were found Wednesday morning, authorities said.
One of the victims was Sadhan Mahato, a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) supporter, who was shot dead in Pirakata of West Midnapore.
The other victim, Habul Patra, was killed [...]
Palasia (West Bengal), Dec 22 (ANI): Hundreds of villagers owing allegiance to People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA), a pro-Maoist organisation, stormed the premises of the Range Forest office near Palasia in west Midnapore district of West Bengal and set it on fire on Monday.
The irate villagers said that they torched the office in [...]
Kolkata, Dec 22 (IANS) Four police personnel were injured in a landmine blast in West Bengal’s Maoist-stronghold of West Midnapore district, police said Tuesday.
Officials said the incident took place late Monday near Rathbera of Dahijuri locality in the district. A police team was on its way to a trouble zone to rescue a family allegedly [...]
Kolkata, Dec 21 (IANS) Two people were killed when security forces opened fire on suspected Maoists at Kalaboni village in West Bengal’s West Midnapore district Sunday night.
A senior police officer said the incident occurred after the joint forces of central paramilitary troopers and state armed police, deployed in the area to flush out the ultras, [...]
Jhargram (WB), Dec 20 (ANI): At least two CPM activists were reportedly shot dead by Maoists in West Bengal’s West Midnapore district.
According to sources, the bodies of CPM activists, who along with four others were abducted by Maoists late last night from Balodhoba village, were found dead at Lauria village near Manikpara.
The whereabouts [...]
Kolkata, Dec 20 (IANS) Suspected Maoist rebels killed two Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) workers and abducted two policemen in West Bengal’s West Midnapore district Sunday, police said.
The two CPI-M workers – Jyotindranath Mahato and Manik Midha – were abducted with two others by the Left wing ultras from Balodhoba village Saturday night, police said.
Their [...]
Kolkata, Dec 18 (IANS) Four Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) activists were allegedly shot dead by Maoists and their associate People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA) in West Bengal’s West Midnapore district, police said Friday.
They also set fire to a sponge iron factory and several vehicles in the district.
Police said CPI-M worker Sisir Jana – [...]
