Murshidabad Fire

Four days after people protesting the amended Citizenship Act set fire to a railway station in Bengal's Murshidabad, a Union Minister on Tuesday warned that anybody resorting to such acts would be shot at sight by the authorities.

A railway station complex in West Bengal's Murshidabad district was set on fire on Friday evening by those protesting against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. The protesters, thousands in number, also thrashed personnel of the Railway Police Force that were at the Beldanga railway station complex.

A motorcycle-borne gang of 30-40 masked men threw bombs at a polling booth in South 24 Parganas' Pujali and damaged EVMs at several other booths even as voting for civic polls in civic bodies in West Bengal, including four in Darjeeling, is underway. When asked which party they were from, they said BJP. Others then shouted 'Jai Shri Ram'. But local...

Hinting at a conspiracy in the Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital fire which claimed two lives, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today alleged it was a "planned incident" to kill innocent people.

West Bengal Government ordered a CID inquiry into the fire in Murshidabad Medical College Hospital which claimed two lives on Saturday.

At least two people have died and several injured after a fire broke out at a government hospital in West Bengal's Murshidabad district.

Toy pistols in hand, Left MLAs demonstrated inside the West Bengal Assembly today and demanded answers from chief minister Mamata Banerjee about action against her party workers who were caught on camera yesterday brandishing and even firing real 9 mm pistols during a procession at Kandi in Murshidabad district.

West Bengal Congress chief and Congress lawmaker, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury today tore off his shirt and dared the police to fire at him after they lathicharged his supporters during a 12 hour shutdown called by the party today. But his protest, at Behrampore in Murshidabad district, was ridiculed by chief minister Mamata Banerjee, as aping former c...

Violence continues during the panchayat polls in West Bengal. Security forces have to fire in air today to disperse the crowd that had gathered after some people tried to snatch ballot boxes in North Dinajpur, one of the four districts which have gone to polls in the fifth and final phase today.

Four days after people protesting the amended Citizenship Act set fire to a railway station in Bengal's Murshidabad, a Union Minister on Tuesday warned that anybody resorting to such acts would be shot at sight by the authorities.

A railway station complex in West Bengal's Murshidabad district was set on fire on Friday evening by those protesting against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. The protesters, thousands in number, also thrashed personnel of the Railway Police Force that were at the Beldanga railway station complex.

A motorcycle-borne gang of 30-40 masked men threw bombs at a polling booth in South 24 Parganas' Pujali and damaged EVMs at several other booths even as voting for civic polls in civic bodies in West Bengal, including four in Darjeeling, is underway. When asked which party they were from, they said BJP. Others then shouted 'Jai Shri Ram'. But local...

Hinting at a conspiracy in the Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital fire which claimed two lives, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today alleged it was a "planned incident" to kill innocent people.

West Bengal Government ordered a CID inquiry into the fire in Murshidabad Medical College Hospital which claimed two lives on Saturday.

At least two people have died and several injured after a fire broke out at a government hospital in West Bengal's Murshidabad district.

Toy pistols in hand, Left MLAs demonstrated inside the West Bengal Assembly today and demanded answers from chief minister Mamata Banerjee about action against her party workers who were caught on camera yesterday brandishing and even firing real 9 mm pistols during a procession at Kandi in Murshidabad district.

West Bengal Congress chief and Congress lawmaker, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury today tore off his shirt and dared the police to fire at him after they lathicharged his supporters during a 12 hour shutdown called by the party today. But his protest, at Behrampore in Murshidabad district, was ridiculed by chief minister Mamata Banerjee, as aping former c...

Violence continues during the panchayat polls in West Bengal. Security forces have to fire in air today to disperse the crowd that had gathered after some people tried to snatch ballot boxes in North Dinajpur, one of the four districts which have gone to polls in the fifth and final phase today.