three people, including a woman, were killed and five others injured in two separate road accidents in Barrackpore sub-division of North 24 Parganas district today.Police said two fish traders of East Midnapur district were killed and four injured when their vehicle collided with a truck on Kalyani Expressway at Mathurapur under Jagaddal police station of the Barrackpore Commissionerate.One Babulal...

Source : Webindia123 | 43 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Midnapur

Congress worker held for attack on TMC office

MIDNAPUR: Congress worker was arrested on Saturday night for allegedly ransacking the office ofat Nayagram. However, Congress leaders in the district held two factions of the ruling party responsible for the fracas. The incident ahead of chief minister Mamata Banerjee's Binpur visit on Tuesday has caught the party's district leadership off-guard. Trinamool's district president Pradyut Ghosh rubbished...

Source : Times Of India | 68 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Midnapur

SER run special EMU trains between howrah and midnapur for URS festival

South Eastern Railway will run EMU special trains between Howrah and Midnapur on February 16-18 to clear extra rush of passengers to Midnapur on the occasion of URS festival. URS festival of Maulana Syed Shah Murshed Ali al Qadri Pir Saheb which is held in Jora Masjid of Midnapur each year. The decision to run special EMU local trains was taken by Mr Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Minister of State...

Source : Webindia123 | 106 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Midnapur

Fire at Midnapur nursing home

MIDNAPORE/KOLKATA: Doctors had barely started doing their rounds and the first surgery had just begun at Spandan - the largest nursing home insaw smoke billowing out of the basement at 8.40am. A room next to the pharmacy was on fire. It was stacked with electric cables. The fire brigade reached within half-an-hour but the smoke had started thickening by then and was floating to the floors above. Panic...

Source : Times Of India | 429 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Midnapur

Fear of unknown fever grips villagers

- a poor village on the East and West Midnapore border, 170 km from Kolkata. A killer virus, that has taken half-a-dozen lives in the last three years, is back to torment the area and its poor inhabitants who have little access to proper healthcare. It could be the deadly Hanta virus or Korean haemorrhagicthat has a 50% mortality rate, some experts fear. Even though a confirmation is awaited from the...

Source : Times Of India | 568 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Midnapur

Five more skeletons unearthed in Bengal

MIDNAPUR(WB): Continuing its recovery of human skeletons, police on Monday unearthed five more skeleton remains with their vertebrae intact in Goaltore in West Midnapur district of West Bengal.Police said the skeletons were recovered from two places in Perua Bandh area in Goaltore.One of the skeletons has been claimed by family members of Shaukat Khan, a Trinamool Congress worker, who has been missing...

Source : The Economic Times | 635 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Midnapur