Protest CPI-M ‘atrocities’ in Hooghly, urges minister

October 11th, 2009 KOLKATA - Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Sunday charged West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee with orchestrating attacks on her party supporters in Hooghly district and demanded his immediate arrest. Banerjee, also the country's railway minister, called up union Home Secretary G.K.

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September 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Describing as "shocking" the low conviction rate in cases of atrocities against Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST), Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday said such cases should be pursued on priority. Emphasising that the first task should be to provide "physical security" to these disadvantaged communities, Manmohan Singh noted that reports of atrocities against Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and senior citizens were appearing all over the country with disturbing regularity.

July 27th, 2009 PATNA - Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan was arrested here Monday along with hundreds of workers from his party during a protest march against the Nitish Kumar-led state government. Paswan and his supporters were arrested during the 'jail bharo abhiyan' (fill the jail campaign) while they were marching from the party headquarters to the governor's residence Raj Bhavan.

July 27th, 2009 KOLKATA - Train services were disrupted and road blockades were put up as the Jharkhand Disum Party (JDP) Monday called a 12-hour shutdown in West Bengal, but the closure had partial impact in three districts. The shutdown called in protest against the joint operation by security forces in West Midnapore and Purulia districts saw markets and shops closed in tribal areas like Bundwan and Baghmundi of Purulia, and parts of Burdwan and Hooghly districts.

July 19th, 2009 KOLKATA - As the three-day shut-down called by People's Committee against Police Atrocities began on Sunday, normal life was severely affected in three districts of West Bengal, officials said. The bandh is being observed in Jangal Mahal region comprising tribal areas of West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia districts.

July 17th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati and her government have come in for criticism from the National Commission for Scheduled Castes, which said it has the "most dismal record in tackling atrocities against Dalits". Commission chairman Buta Singh said the Mayawati government's move to arrest Congress leader Rita Joshi Bahuguna for her remarks against Mayawati was "a little far-fetched".

July 8th, 2009 KOLKATA - Hundreds of activists of the Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) staged a demonstration here against the alleged atrocities by security personnel in Lalgarh and also against the recent fuel hike by the Central Government. Shouting slogans against the Congress Party, they demanded roll back of fuel price hike.

June 20th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal's principal opposition party Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Saturday said Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee "is a bigger Maoist" and threatened a stir if allegations that her party had links with leftwing rebels were not withdrawn. "We will wait for 48 hours.

May 3rd, 2009 AMBALA - Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on Sunday critcised Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh for not taking any action over the atrocities committed on Sikh community in Pakistan.

April 13th, 2009 SYDNEY - Hundreds of Tamil demonstrators protesting outside the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Sydney residence say that they will stay there until the Australian Government urges the Sri Lankan Government to call for a ceasefire with the Tamil Tigers. Protester Geetha Mano, 24, said the rally would continue until they got some response from Rudd or Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith.

February 10th, 2009 KOLKATA - Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Suhrid Dutta and party activist Debu Malik, who were last year sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Tapasi Malik in Singur, were Wednesday granted bail by the Calcutta High Court. A two-member division bench comprising Justice Pranab Chattopadhyay and Justice Asim Roy sanctioned the bail plea but asked Dutta and Malik to furnish two sureties of Rs.10,000 each and barred them from leaving Singur police station area without the court's permission.

February 5th, 2009 KOLKATA - Four people died Friday while cleaning up a gas chamber at an abandoned paper mill in Kolkata's neighbouring district Hooghly, the police said. 'Four workers died late Friday evening when they were cleaning up a gas chamber at an abandoned paper mill at Dankuni in Hooghly district,' Hooghly district police superintendent Rajiv Mishra told IANS.

January 11th, 2009 KOLKATA - Two teenaged boys were abducted by identified men when they were returning form a religious rally in Kolkata's twin district Howrah Monday morning, officials said. The boys were rescued by the police later in the day.

January 10th, 2009 KOLKATA - Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Sunday took out a rally in Kolkata to protest the sale of poisonous country-made liquor that claimed several lives here last week. 'The West Bengal government should give compensation to the families of each victim who died after consuming poisonous country-made liquor at Khidirpore port area in south-west Kolkata,' Banerjee said.