Wikio - West Bengal

Violence on the Left: Nandigram and the Communists of West Bengal (3quarksdaily)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:33:28 GMT

Martha C. Nussbaum in Dissent: After a period of relative impotence, the Hindu-supremacist right in India has rebounded, with the December reelection of Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Narendra Modi as chief minister in Gujarat. Modi’s role in the mass murders...

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Durga Puja - Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:16:01 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India www.xanga.com/rsposato979

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India Lite - Darjeeling, West Bengal, India (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:10:44 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Darjeeling, West Bengal, India www.xanga.com/rsposato979

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Mild tremor in West Bengal (Hindu)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:29:21 GMT

KOLKATA: A mild earthquake rocked four districts of West Bengal around 10.30 p.m. on Saturday. The tremors, with a magnitude of 4.1, had its epicentre in Murshidabad, and were felt in Nadia, Bardhhaman, Birbhum and Murshidabad, the ...

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Mamata wants Delhi trust vote (The Telegraph India)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:07:53 GMT

Calcutta, July 6: Mamata Banerjee today said the UPA government should immediately convene a Parliament session to seek a vote of confidence.

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Salary for 'state' (The Telegraph India)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:07:53 GMT

Darjeeling, July 6: Government employees in the Darjeeling hills have decided to donate a day's salary, around Rs 500 each, every month to the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha-led Gorkhaland movement.

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CRPF goes, govt says Nandi normal (The Telegraph India)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:07:53 GMT

Tamluk, July 6: The last two companies of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) have been pulled out of Nandigram.

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Tram death (The Telegraph India)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:07:53 GMT

Calcutta, July 6: A woman, believed to be a pavement dweller, was run over by a tram near Gariahat tonight. The woman, around 40, is suspected to have jumped in front of the moving tram around 11.30.

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Rebel on the run arrested (The Telegraph India)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:07:53 GMT

Cooch Behar, July 6: A Kamtapur Liberation Organisation militant wanted for the past five years was held in Chandamari market in South Dinajpur last night.

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Stripped, for grazing cattle on govt land (The Telegraph India)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:07:53 GMT

Bethudahari, July 6: A woman was allegedly stripped and thrashed in a Nadia village after she refused to sign an undertaking saying she would not set foot on a patch of government land in front of her house

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Villagers beat govt in flood fight (The Telegraph India)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:07:53 GMT

Rampura (Sabong), July 6: Residents of an obscure West Midnapore village do something every year that the government should: prepare for floods in advance.

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Priya heart attack in Malda (The Telegraph India)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:07:53 GMT

July 6: Priya Ranjan Das Munshi suffered a mild heart attack after a meeting in Malda today where he apparently had to concede ground to the camp owing allegiance to the late Ghani Khan Chowdhury over the election of the new zilla parishad chief.

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Our very own Beautiful Darjeeling! (Invest@fundamentals)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:37:00 GMT

Hi, Darjeeling is in a small city in West Bengal, India. Darjeeling grew in prominence during the mid 19th century when, because of its climate, the British first established a hill station there after leasing it from the Chogyal of Sikkim and later discovered that the area was particularly well suited for tea plantations. See Info & Pix - http://indiaouting.com/west-bengal/darjeeling/...

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Dasmunsi complains of breathlessness, hospitalised (Thaindian News)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:15:29 GMT

Kolkata, July 6(IANS) Information and Broadcasting Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, who was hospitalised at Raiganj in North Dinajpur district of West Bengal Sunday afternoon following complaints of breathlessness, is being shifted here for treatment. “He had some problem of indigestion. Following this, he developed a minor cardiac problem. We are bringing him to the Kolkata [...]

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Union Minister Dasmunshi admitted to hospital (rediff News)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:17:22 GMT

Information and Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunshi was hospitalised at Raiganj in West Bengal on Sunday following a chest pain. Hospital sources said the minister felt uncomfortable while coming from Malda to Raiganj. His condition was, however, said to be stable.

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'Only 53% wash hands after defecation' (Times of India)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:56:30 GMT

A study conducted in West Bengal and Tripura last year found that only 49% washed their hands after using the toilet.

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Arrest after priest death (The Telegraph India)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:25:43 GMT

Calcutta, July 5: The owner of a Kalighat building in which a 70-year-old priest died of an electric shock while performing a puja last night has been arrested.

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Makeover misses deadline (The Telegraph India)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:25:42 GMT

Calcutta, July 5: Calcutta airport's modernisation project is set to start in September and finish one year behind schedule.

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'Missing' nurse booked (The Telegraph India)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:25:42 GMT

Siliguri, July 5: A police case was started today against the Siliguri nurse whose rude behaviour had allegedly led to a patient's relative suffering a heart attack last evening.

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Husband's bone cancer kills couple (The Telegraph India)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:25:40 GMT

Calcutta, July 5: A young woman apparently killed herself yesterday after realising that her husband had gulped down poison, unable to cope any more with the expensive treatment of his bone cancer.

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