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Mob torches vehicles after boy run over by truck
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A 12-year-old boy was run over by a fly-ash dumper truck on the Barrackpore-Sodepur Expressway at Doperia under Khardah police station in North 24 Parganas today.
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Failure at camp level to pre-empt Maoist attack on EFR jawans: CM
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Giving virtually a clean chit to the police high-ups, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today said the intelligence failure 'if there was any', to pre-empt the Maoist attack on EFR jawans at Shilda
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Modern-day Maharajas should provide patronage to painters: Wasim
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Dubbing the corporate giants as 'modern-day Maharajas', eminent painter Wasim Kapoor today beckoned them to promote painters in hard times.
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Bengal's transgenders want socio-economic reservation at all levels
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Transgender persons in West Bengal want reservation not just in Parliament, but also in education, jobs and all community and social development programmes.
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Two school girls die after eating 'poisoned' lunch
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Two Class 4 girls collapsed during the lunch break in school Thursday and died. It is being alleged that they were poisoned by one of their classmates, police said.
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Sundarbans fisherman seriously injured in tiger attack
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A fisherman, severely mauled by a tiger Thursday in the Sundarban forests of West Bengal, is now battling for life in a state-run hospital.
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CBI arrests CRPF official in Kolkata
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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested Hemanta Kumar Barik, Signal Operator in Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Signal Head Quarters, Salt Lake, Kolkata while personating himself as SP, CBI, Kolkata.
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Anti-Gorkhaland body calls 24-hour shutdown in Silliguri
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Activists of the Bangla-O-Bangla Bhasa Bachao committee, a regional forum, called for a 24-hour here, protesting the fifth round of tripartite talks to be held with central officials in New today.
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Police open fire in air as tribals storm outpost
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Police fired in the air after a group of pro-Maoists tribals tried to force their way into a police outpost in West Midnapore district Thursday.
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SpiceJet introduces two new direct sectors in summer
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Low cost airline SpiceJet has introduced two direct sectors - Ahmedabad-Kolkata and Kolkata-Hyderabad - in its summer schedule for this year.
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Electoral rolls being prepared for municipal polls in West Bengal
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West Bengal's State Election Commission has taken up the task of preparing the electoral rolls for the forthcoming elections to 82 civic bodies across the State since the Election Commission of India (ECI) has yet not issued the notice to start enrolling new voters
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Plan to add 695 MBBS seats
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The Bengal government today announced its intention to add 695 MBBS seats to nine state-run medical colleges.
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Delhi looks at two-year hill window
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The Centre will try to float afresh an autonomy formula at the talks with the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha in Delhi tomorrow but it is also keeping its options open on a two-year time frame because of unpublicised reservations expressed by the Trinamul Congress.
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Unlettered farmer donates plot for school
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An illiterate farmer in Burdwan whose children are school dropouts has donated 14 cottahs to the state government to build a girls’ school.
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Sen post
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Bengal’s longest serving industry secretary, Sabyasachi Sen, has been made an additional chief secretary and appointed commissioner-general of land and land reforms.
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Congress, Trinamool stage walkout from Assembly
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Opposition Congress and the Trinamool Congress today walked out of the West Bengal Assembly protesting against the Speaker's refusal to allow an adjournment motion for discussion on Saibari (Sai family) murder case.
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Police allowed to quiz Maoist leader Dipak for 14 days
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A city court Wednesday allowed police to question arrested Maoist guerrilla leader Venkateswar Reddy alias Telegu Dipak for two more weeks till March 31.
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Maoists kill CPI-M leader in West Bengal
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Maoist rebels allegedly killed Tapan Dolui, a local Committee Secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Midnapore district, accusing him of helping the police in establishing a new joint force camp near Dherua.
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Ford India plans to set up an Engine hub in India for exports
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Ford India, one of largest global players in automobile industry, has decided to set up an exclusive manufacturing hub for low displacement engine in Chennai for the company's export market in South Africa and Asia Pacific region.
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40 shops of Chandni Market gutted
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A major fire broke out at the Chandni Chowk Market area of Central Kolkata in which about 40 shops were gutted early today.
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A new option for Indian women - the vaginal ring
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For women who often forget to take their oral contraceptives amid busy schedules, doctors say the vaginal ring should come in handy.
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Test-fired: Morcha and central plans for hills
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The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha and the Centre have placed their bargaining chips on the table, irreconcilable at first glance but etching the contours within which talks are expected to be held.
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‘Prisoner’ CM, cries Congress
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The Congress today raised an uproar in the Assembly, questioning why Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had not attended a meeting on internal security called by the Prime Minister on February 7.
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Four injured in jumbo attack at Kaziranga
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Four members of a family from Calcutta were injured after a forest department elephant attacked their vehicle at Kaziranga National Park in Assam on Monday evening.
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Gorkha Janmukti Morcha pays tribute to Shilda martyrs
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The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) activists on Monday held a candle light vigil to pay tributes to the Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) personnel, who were killed by Maoists in West Bengal's Shilda last month.
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