Over 1,250 complaints have been received at government camps in the restive Sandeshkhali region of West Bengal, where the administration is conducting a mass outreach programme to address grievances of locals, officials said.
The body of a minor girl, hailing from a tribal and financially backward family, was recovered from an abandoned brick-kiln at a village in West Bengal's Malda district on Friday evening, police said. West Bengal Shocker: Tribal Girl Found Dead in Malda, Rape and Murder Suspected.
Armed with sticks, protestors set ablaze a thatched structure near a pond, venting their fury against the elusive TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh and his brother Siraj. The torched structure, it was revealed, belonged to Siraj.
Kolkata, Feb 22 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh each for the next of kin of four minors who died allegedly after a mound of earth caved in during drainage expansion work near the India-Bangladesh border in Uttar Dinajpur district, a senior official said.
New Delhi, Feb 19 (PTI) Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur on Monday condemned the Mamata Banerjee-led government in West Bengal after police took away a television journalist reporting on the violence in Sandeshkhali.