Last Updated: Monday, October 28, 2013, 22:22
Nearly one lakh people in East Midnapore district of the state were affected as a vast area covering 553 villages were flooded.
Last Updated: Sunday, October 27, 2013, 19:36
Two blocks of Panskura and Tamluk in East Midnapore district was flooded today after a breach in the embankment of Kangasabati river on Sunday, official sources said.
Last Updated: Thursday, October 17, 2013, 20:54
Nine persons have lost their lives in the recent floods in five districts of West Bengal, state disaster management department sources said.
Last Updated: Saturday, August 24, 2013, 10:03
Three villages in East Midnapore district were flooded this evening after the embankment of Kansabati river breached at Panskura Bazar, officials said.
Last Updated: Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 17:37
An eight-year-old boy working as a domestic help was allegedly branded with a heated spatula by a housewife for being late in returning from market in this town in Murshidabad district.
Last Updated: Friday, August 19, 2011, 19:53
The scientists had been consistently demanding that West Bengal be declared a nuclear-free zone.
Last Updated: Saturday, May 21, 2011, 16:27
At least 300 bullets were seized during a raid by police at Kalagachia in Khejuri of East Midnapore district.
Last Updated: Sunday, November 28, 2010, 16:12
Nineteen persons were injured, four of them seriously, when police lathicharged to quell agitating supporters of Trinamool Congress over school primary council elections at Panskura in East Midnapore district.
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 23:45
Hopes of tracing the 18 missing passengers of a boat that sank in the Rupnarayan river almost faded today, with speedboats and divers searching for them in vain in West Bengal`s East Midnapore district.
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