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WB panchayat polls: Police baton charged on people
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Uttar Dinajpur [West Bengal], May 16 (ANI): Police baton charged on people in Uttar Dinajpur district's Goalpokhar as a crowd-control measure during the re-polling of panchayat polls.
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National level swimmer from Bengal commits suicide
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Hooghly (West Bengal) [India], May 1 (ANI): Moupriya Mitra, a 16-year-old National level swimmer, allegedly committed suicide at her residence in Hooghly.
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Suspended para swimmer Karmakar cries conspiracy
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Hooghly (West Bengal) [India], March 1 (ANI): Para-swimmer Prasanta Karmakar, who has been suspended for three years by the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI), today said an injustice had been done to him.
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Student leader assaults girl in WB college, video goes viral
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Hooghly (West Bengal) [India], Jan 18 (ANI): In a video that went viral on the internet, a member of Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad - TMC student wing, is seen assaulting a girl inside the college premises of Rishra Bidhan College in Hooghly, West Bengal.
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Prisoners in Kolkata jail attack cops
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Jan 17 (ANI): Prisoners of Kolkata's Presidency correctional home on Wednesday attacked the officials and tried to torch a portion of the jail when they were being shifted to Hooghly correctional home.
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Howrah-Kolkata ferry services halted due to heavy rains, strong crosswinds
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Oct 9 (ANI): Ferry services between Howrah and Kolkata were suspended temporarily due to heavy rains and strong crosswind across Kolkata's Hooghly River on Monday.
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Armed men point gun at doctor, demand immediate treatment for friend
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Hooghly (West Bengal) [India], Oct 1 (ANI): A group of armed men on Sunday morning stormed a privately run nursing home in West Bengal and demanded treatment for one of their friends.
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RTI activist rebuffs Netaji's plane crash theory as 'debunked�
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Hooghly (West Bengal) [India] May 31 (ANI): Expressing displeasure over the Centre's reply to a Right to Information (RTI) query on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Sayak Sen, the RTI activist who filed the RTI vis-a-vis Bose' s death rubbished three different reports and commissions,
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WB: Three killed, several missing as jetty sinks in Hooghly
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bhadreswar (West Bengal) [India] Apr 26 (ANI): At least three people were killed and several others are missing after a temporary jetty submerged under water due to high tide in Hooghly's Bhadreswar on Wednesday.
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Ravi Shankar Prasad asks Mamata to clear her stand on Triple Talaq
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Hooghly (West Bengal) [India], Apr. 13 (ANI): Union Minister of Law and Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday asked West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to clarify her stand on the Triple Talaq system from which majority of women are suffering in her state.
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Man dies in ATM line: Family questions 'ignorance' of onlookers
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Dec. 4 (ANI): The family of Kallol Ray Chowdhury, who yesterday died while standing in an ATM queue near Bandel station in Hooghly district, has expressed its disgust over the ignorance of the people preferring money over life as none came to his rescue.
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Deaths post demonetisation: Women activists for setting up first-aid unit
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 4 (ANI): A day after a 56-year-old man died while standing in an ATM queue in Hooghly, Kolkata, women activist Neelam Katara on Sunday asked the government to establish a first-aid unit near ATMs to ensure that no untoward incident takes place in future.
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