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Sunderbans blast: Local residents voice strong suspicions of unsafe firecracker practices following deadly explosion

April 02, 2025 1:12 am

On Tuesday morning, investigators recovered cracker-making spices and from a room adjacent to the destroyed house, further fueling speculation about the cause of the explosion

Bengal: Four children among 7 killed in Sunderbans firecracker unit blast, probe on

April 01, 2025 12:32 am

Police said that many people are still feared trapped in the rubble of the house

Tiger which attacked forest guard held after 12 hours’ search in Sunderbans

February 11, 2025 3:12 pm

Around 3.30 am on Tuesday, forest guards were able to tranquilise the tiger in Maipith in the Sunderbans.

Forest guard injured in Royal Bengal tiger attack in Sundarbans

February 10, 2025 8:26 pm

Ganesh Shyamal was admitted to Kolkata’s SSKM hospital with injuries on his forehead. The tiger entered a villager’s house, which has now been cordoned off

Maleka Beoya, 100, with her daughter Shobjan Bibi at her house in Gajamuri village in the Sundarbans. (Express photo by Neha Banka)

When the stomach burns: 80 years on, memories from the famine kitchens of Bengal

October 16, 2024 10:58 pm

The Bengal famine of 1943 led to over three million deaths and large-scale displacement, forever altering the way an entire population engaged with food and hunger. Eight decades on, The Indian Express travels to the Sunderbans to meet some of the survivors.

To combat high rates of child drowning deaths in the Sundarbans, India gets its first pond-based swimming pool

July 25, 2024 11:26 pm

Studies show that three children drown every day all over West Bengal, and the region also has the world’s highest rate of child mortality due to drowning.

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How stories of the Sunderbans are brought alive through theatre

January 12, 2024 7:37 pm

Actor-director Sajal Mondal is getting the people of the Sunderbans, one of the world’s most vulnerable ecosystems, to see that it's possible to live in a different way, in different worlds

Members of the Mangrove Army collect mangrove seeds, which come bobbing in the water from faraway forests, who gather them in mounds to sprout and then plant them. (Express photo by Umashankar Mandal)

How mothers built a forest in world's largest delta

November 26, 2023 9:18 am

As the annual COP-28 summit kicks off in Dubai, on a remote, cyclone-battered island in the Sunderbans, a schoolteacher has rallied climate crisis’s most vulnerable community —mothers — to secure a mangrove forest and, consequently, their lives.

Mamata promises to tackle water woes in Hasnabad

December 01, 2022 8:16 am

Piped water lines will reach every house in Sundarbans by 2024-end, says CM

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Depression Over Bay Of Bengal: Cyclonic storm to hit Sunderbans most, rain alert for south districts

October 24, 2022 12:54 am

The weather department also predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall in the coastal districts of West Bengal – South 24 Parganas and North 24 Parganas – and heavy rainfall in East and West Midnapore on Monday.

Choksi and his nephew Nirav Modi are wanted in the alleged Punjab National Bank fraud case that they allegedly orchestrated through fraudulent Letters of Undertaking in connivance with some bank officials at the Brady House branch in Mumbai.

‘Personal space, adequate light’: India assures Belgium on Mehul Choksi if extradited

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Four months after Mehul Choksi, the fugitive diamond trader wanted in India for the alleged Rs 13,000 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) loan fraud case, was arrested in Belgium, India sent a letter of assurance to the country’s government, saying it will keep him in Mumbai’s Arthur Road jail complex, “if extradited”.

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