Sept. 19, 2007: Villagers today surrounded a convoy of food department officials from Calcutta, banged at their cars with clenched fists and demanded immediate punishment for corrupt ration dealers.
Sept. 17, 2007: Villagers blocked roads and ransacked ration dealers’ houses at several places in Bankura today as Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee went into a huddle with top officials to review the...
Durgapur, Sept. 16: The Bankura rice rage is spreading. Two more ration dealers were attacked in Bankura hours after villagers broke up an “anti-imperialism” meeting and roughed up CPM...
June 16, 2007: Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today said all political parties should come together for industrialisation and cited a “Bankura” model for unity.
“I...
Bankura, Sept. 8, 2007: A 50-year-old daily labourer has died in a Bankura village, allegedly of starvation.
Shamood Sheikh from Mohana, 240km from Calcutta, was admitted to a local hospital...
Bankura, Sept. 5, 2007: The Bankura administration will build a 3,000-acre industry hub in the district where vast stretches of land are infertile. It will have the potential to bring around Rs 10...
Bankura will come about 50 km closer to the city in a couple of years. A rail track will by then connect the district town with Mosagram on the Howrah-Burdwan chord line, reducing the earlier 231-km tri...
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