went bust last month, a 21-year-old agent of the company committed suicide at his Balurghat residence in South Dinajpur on Tuesday night. Sumit Das, the deceased, had lost his job a month back and recently invested Rs 35000 with the company. His father Samir, also an agent of the company, has been facing the depositors' ire ever since the chit fund scam hit the state.Mandir Para at Balurghat, Samir...

Source : Times Of India | 26 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Balurghat

Goons loot Rs 1.5L from Malda petrol pump

MALDA: A gang of 10 to 12 armed criminals raided a petrol pump on the Malda-Balurghat state highway and made away with Rs 1.5 lakh in cash on Sunday night. Though police tried to give the goons chase, they fired at the cops and managed to escape.Sources said the goons barged into the petrol pump around 10pm and took the employees at gunpoint before going about with the loot. Owner Suraj Bajala was...

Source : Times Of India | 49 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Balurghat

An investor in Saradha Group chit fund company cries during a protest in Balurghat

, West Bengal, on Thursday. — PTIAllowed...

Source : Asianage | 53 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Balurghat

Administrator move for four civic bodies

Mamata Banerjee government may have to appoint administrators to run at least four civic bodies whose terms end on June 30.The civic bodies in Habra (North 24-Parganas), Dubrajpur (Birbhum), Balurghat (South Dinajpur) and Dalkhola (North Dinajpur) are among the 13 which need go to polls before June 30. But the four that have been identified for delimitation by the government are yet to complete the...

Source : Telegraphindia | 60 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Balurghat

> North Bengal & Sikkim

Trinamul Congress has decided to hold a public meeting in the third week of March either in Mirik or Kalimpong at a time when the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha has announced a slew of strikes to boost its statehood movement |An 86-year-old unmarried woman has approached the maintenance tribunal in Balurghat to seek the cancellation of a gift d |A police car was set on fire near Falakata yesterday after the...

Source : Telegraphindia | 106 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Balurghat

Balurghat baby to land in Kolkata today

taken away from his parents on grounds of negligence, a New Jersey court has ordered that the child be released by the US foster care and be given into the custody of his grandmother. Indrashish has been handed over to his uncleand will return to India on Wednesday and reunite with his maternal grandmother Pragati Basak in Gangarampur.This apart, the court has allowed mother Pamela to appeal against...

Source : Times Of India | 111 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Balurghat

> North Bengal & Sikkim

Tribal leader John Barla today said the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha would align with the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha in the tea garden belt but with the Trinamul Congress in other areas of the Dooars and Terai in the coming panchayat elections.The night buses from Balurghat to other parts of north Bengal have stopped plying for about a week because of a salary d |Mohan Roy alias Coach, the 30-year-old KLO militant...

Source : Telegraphindia | 113 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Balurghat

Kid in US foster care, grandpa waits

Pamela and Debashish with Indrashish during one of their Friday visits to the foster care centreNirmal Saha waits every day for a phone call from America that would tell him his grandchild is coming back to him.In September 2012, Saha’s grandson, Indrashish, was taken away from his parents, Pamela and IBM engineer Debashish, by child protection authorities, who accused the couple from Balurghat, South...

Source : Telegraphindia | 151 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Balurghat

Arpora murder case cracked

labourer and a resident of Kamalpur village in West Bengal, has been arrested by thein connection with the murder of 60-year-old Patrick D'Souza in September. Police said that the accused has confessed to the crime.police, Mandol was arrested on the Indo-Bangladesh border at Balurghat by a team led by PSIand comprising Pramesh Naik, Amar Konadkar, Nitesh Mulgaonkar and Suhas Joshi. The police team...

Source : Times Of India | 257 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Balurghat

CM takes up US child custody case with Centre

has urged the Indian foreign ministry to provide all kind support to the Indian couple -and Pamela Saha - who are from Balurghat to get the custody of their one-year-old son Indrashis.A New Jersey child protection agency is now taking care of the child as a court there has given limited access to the parents.Indrashis got injured after falling from a cot on August 9. He was later hospitalized and is...

Source : Times Of India | 279 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Balurghat