A 29-year-old woman was allegedly gangraped by a group of robbers in a local train in West Bengal’s Burdwan district. The incident took place in Katwa on Saturday night. The five armed men were posing as passengers in the Ahmedpur-Katwa passenger train.
Resorting to bandhs during her opposition days was a mistake, chief minister Mamata Banerjee admitted today, just a day before the showdown between her govt and the CPI(M) plays out on the streets of Bengal centering the Feb 28 industrial strike.
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"Let alone the inclusion of Mouzas of Jalpaiguri district, the very question of the formation of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) does not arise at all," said Birsa Tirkey, West Bengal State President of the Akhil Bharatiya Adivashi Vikash Parishad (ABAVP) in the all party meeting in Kolkata convened by the Joint Committee on GTA Territory.
Two senior CPI(M) leaders of Burdwan district of West Bengal, including a former party MLA from the district, were killed in broad daylight, allegedly by a group of armed activists of Trinamool Congress.
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Tibetans ushered in the Year of the Water Dragon with protests, hunger strikes and appealing for immediate United Nations Intervention against alleged systematic human rights violation inside Tibet and the suffering of Tibetan people in the hands of China. It was a truly different Loshar (New Year) this time.
With chief minister Mamata Banerjee setting the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) ball in motion in Delhi, the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) heaved a sigh of relief. A GJM team led by GJM President Bimal Gurung will be departing for Delhi in a day or two to hold talks with union home minister P Chidambaram.
Twenty CISF personnel were injured when they were attacked by EFR jawans after their protest against alleged misbehaviour with some village women at the EFR headquarter at Salua in West Midnapore district, police said today.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tomorrow, would discuss various issues ranging from the Teesta water treaty with Bangladesh to the controversial counter-terror intelligence hub, a Trinamool Congress leader said Tuesday.
Seeking to step up her campaign on the Farakka barrage broken sluice gates issue which she claimed allowed "excess" Ganges water flow to Bangladesh, West Bengal chief minister would meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on February 22 to flag her concern on the matter.
A Kolkata Police woman officer, credited in the media with solving a case of an Anglo-Indian woman's gangrape early this month, on Monday scotched talks of a division within the police ranks and shared the honours with her team.
Three people arrested for gangraping a 37-year-old Anglo-Indian woman in a moving car earlier this month have been sent to police custody till March 3 by a city court, police said on Sunday.
The Kolkata Police confirmed the Park Street rape incident after it arrested two youths on Saturday, rubbishing Mamata Banerjee’s claim that the incident had been “cooked up” to malign her government.
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Rape contrived: MamataUnder attack from non-Congress-ruled states over setting up of an anti-terror institution, home minister P Chidambaram today sought to reach out to them saying that the security of the country is a shared responsibility of the central and state governments.
Lauding the Mamata Banerjee-led government for bringing about considerable change in Maoist-hit areas, home minister P Chidambaram today said the Naxal problem affecting worst-hit Junglemahal has been substantially controlled.