West Bengal official dies in accident in Uttrakhand

October 8th, 2009 KOLKATA - Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Thursday described West Bengal as an "university of Maoist activities" where the ultras get training and launch armed strikes in other parts of the country. "West Bengal is a university of Maoist activities.

September 25th, 2009 KOLKATA - At least nine people were killed and several others injured Friday when a speeding truck collided with a stationery mini-van in West Bengal's South 24-Parganas district, police said. "Nine people were killed in the road accident near Diamond Harbour area.

September 21st, 2009 KOLKATA - A low magnitude earthquake was felt in parts of West Bengal, including state capital Kolkata, Monday afternoon, the weatherman said. "We've received reports of mild tremors from different parts of the state.

August 24th, 2009 Indo-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE KOLKATA - A two-day shutdown called by the Maoists in five states beginning Monday, to demand the release of two of its arrested members, had negligible impact in West Bengal, police said. "The shutdown hardly (had an) impact on the normal life in three West Bengal districts - Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore - which are considered as Maoist strongholds in the state," Inspector General of Police (Law and Order) Surajit Kar Purakayastha told IANS.

August 3rd, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal Minister for Transport, Sports and Youth Affairs Subhas Chakraborty passed away at a private hospital in Salt Lake on Monday. Sixty-eight-year-old Chakraborty is survived by his wife and a son.

July 13th, 2009 KOLKATA - At least six people were killed and over 20 injured Monday as a speeding bus fell into a water body in East Midnapore district of West Bengal, police said. The accident took place under Chandipur police station area when the driver lost control of the bus, East Midnapore Superintendent of Police Pallav Kanti Ghosh told IANS.

June 2nd, 2009 AGARTALA - Tripura Tuesday decided to give Rs.5 million to cyclone-hit West Bengal to help in the relief relief efforts. "The people of Tripura are confident that with the resilience of the people and the adequate support of the central government, the West Bengal government would come out of this situation," Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said in a letter to his West Bengal counterpart Bhudhadeb Bhattacharjee.

May 24th, 2009 KOLKATA - Three contract labourers were killed in an accident at a process vehicle in the Haldia Petrochemicals Limited plant in West Bengal Sunday, an official said. "Three people died in the accident.

April 16th, 2009 KOLKATA - Six districts in West Bengal were put on alert Thursday in view of cyclone 'Bijli' which lay centred 680 km to the south and South West of Kolkata. 'The cyclone is likely to move in a north-westerly direction,' a regional meteorological department official said.

April 14th, 2009 KOLKATA - The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) faces a tough fight in the Lok Sabha elections but would get a majority of seats in West Bengal, the party's general secretary Prakash Karat said here Tuesday. 'We will have a tough battle in the elections, but we have faced situations in the past when the opposition had virtually come together without an alliance,' Karat told reporters in response to the Congress and Trinamool Congress joining hands in the state.

March 28th, 2009 KOLKATA - A three-storey police outpost building has collapsed in West Bengal. No casualty was reported, an official said Saturday.

March 18th, 2009 KOLKATA - Activists of Trinamool Congress and Congress party organised a yagna here for the success of the alliance of these two parties in the ensuing elections to the Lok Sabha. This was consequent to the finalisation of the tie-up and sharing of seats between the two parties in West Bengal.

February 14th, 2009 KOLKATA - Two people were killed when a truck collided with a taxi Sunday in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, police said. The police said the accident happened due to poor visibility because of morning fog.

February 14th, 2009 KOLKATA - A major train accident was averted in West Bengal Sunday when a railway worker spotted a crack in a rail track fishplate and stopped a train. According to sources, railway gateman Swapan Das made the discovery at Tarakeswar station in Hooghly district.

February 10th, 2009 KOLKATA - Eight people, including five returning from a crematorium, were killed in two road accidents in West Bengal Wednesday, police said. Five people were killed on the spot when the mini-van they were travelling in overturned at Dubrajpur of Birbhum district.