March 26, 2010 03:27 IST
A CRPF commando was injured and two Maoists were believed killed in a gunbattle that raged for over 12 hours today in a forest near Lakkhanpur in West Midnapore....
Fri, Mar 26, 2010March 26, 2010 02:01 IST
A CRPF commando was injured and two Maoists were believed killed in a gunbattle that raged for over 12 hours today in a forest near Lakkhanpur in West Midnapore where security forces suspect top Maoist leader Kishenji was present.
Fri, Mar 26, 2010March 25, 2010 04:23 IST
The role of a well known furniture shop on Park Street has come in for sharp criticism as they allegedly refused to part with some cloth sheets that could have been used to save people who were jumping from upper floors of the burning Stephen Court out of panic.
Thu, Mar 25, 2010March 25, 2010 04:16 IST
The debris is yet to be cleared and the missing people accounted for,but the blame game among the state authorities has begun.
Thu, Mar 25, 2010March 25, 2010 04:15 IST
For the innocent victims,Tuesdays fire at Stephen Court the worst in Kolkata in 40 years was an emergency that needed quick response.
Thu, Mar 25, 2010
March 25, 2010 01:44 IST
A day after fire swept through the top floors of the Stephen Court building,a blame-game began over the worst incident of fire in Kolkata in 40 years.
Thu, Mar 25, 2010
March 24, 2010 02:44 IST
A fire swept through two floors of a six-storied building on Park Street for over four hours on Tuesday afternoon,and police said that 20 people were feared killed and many injured.
Wed, Mar 24, 2010March 18, 2010 00:55 IST
N Tomba,the military chief of Manipur-based outlawed Kanglei Yawol Kanba Lup (KYKL),had settled in Kurseong in 2007 and was living in a house purchased in the name of his Nepali associates wife,police said on Wednesday.
Thu, Mar 18, 2010March 17, 2010 02:12 IST
Ningthoujam Tomba alias Koireng,the military chief of Manipurs outlawed Kanglei Yawol Kunna Lup who was arrested along with three women from Matigara in Siliguri...
Wed, Mar 17, 2010
February 27, 2010 03:52 IST
Denying he ever advised Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on anti-Naxal operations,former National Security Advisor and West Bengal Governor M K Narayanan today met the jawans of Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR)...
Sat, Feb 27, 2010February 27, 2010 03:17 IST
Denying he ever advised Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on anti-Naxal operations,West Bengal Governor M K Narayanan on Friday met personnel of Eastern Frontier Rifles....
Sat, Feb 27, 2010February 25, 2010 03:19 IST
The killing of Lalmohan Tudu,the president of the Peoples Committee Against Police Atrocities,at Katapahari in Lalgarh is being not only seen as a body blow to the Maoist-linked organisation but also signals a clear shift in the strategy of the security forces after the Silda attack.
Thu, Feb 25, 2010February 25, 2010 03:13 IST
The killing of Lalmohan Tudu,the president of the Peoples Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA),at Katapahari in Lalgarh...
Thu, Feb 25, 2010February 24, 2010 03:10 IST
Among the five Maoists killed in the Silda camp raid admitted by Naxal leader Kishenji one was a CPM discard,another played a pivotal role in the Rajdhani Express siege and the rest were armed cadres responsible for the several killings in the Lalgarh-Jhargram belt.
Wed, Feb 24, 2010
February 23, 2010 02:09 IST
In what could be the first detention in connection with the Naxal attack on EFRs Silda camp on February 15,the police have picked up a man from Belpahari but are yet to show an official arrest two days later.
Tue, Feb 23, 2010February 21, 2010 02:17 IST
Gurupada Mahato,an alleged Maoist commander of Belpahari squad,is currently being treated at a private nursing home at Ekbalpore in south Kolkata.
Sun, Feb 21, 2010February 19, 2010 00:17 IST
Silda may have been waiting to happen. At 27 camps,an overworked,underequipped Eastern Frontier Rifles has been sent in to battle Bengals growing Maoist menace....
Fri, Feb 19, 2010February 18, 2010 03:26 IST
Laxmi Thapa has shut herself up ever since the body of her husband Suraj Bahadur,slain by Maoists at the Silda Eastern Frontier Rifles camp...
Thu, Feb 18, 2010
February 18, 2010 02:32 IST
We want Gorkhaland and justice for EFR these words echoed through Salua EFR headquarters on Wednesday after children of security personnel put up road blockades with hundreds of banners and posters to express their agony and anger at the death of 24 EFR men,who were killed by Maoists at Silda camp.
Thu, Feb 18, 2010February 18, 2010 02:29 IST
Laxmi Thapa has shut herself up ever since the body of her husband Suraj Bahadur,slain by Maoists at the Silda Eastern Frontier Rifles camp,reached home and last rites were performed according to Nepali custom.
Thu, Feb 18, 2010
February 17, 2010 03:44 IST
Suraj Bahadur Thapa of the Eastern Frontier Rifles one of the 24 West Bengal policemen killed by Maoists on Monday evening had a premonition of death.
Wed, Feb 17, 2010February 17, 2010 02:30 IST
Suraj Bahadur Thapa of the Eastern Frontier Rifles one of the 24 West Bengal policemen killed by Maoists on Monday evening had a premonition of death.
Wed, Feb 17, 2010
February 16, 2010 03:19 IST
In the biggest ever attack launched by Maoists against security forces in West Bengal,a camp of the Eastern Frontier Rifles...
Tue, Feb 16, 2010February 16, 2010 02:59 IST
When he was just 16 years old,Bipin Ganatra lost his elder brother in a freak fire. At that time,Ganatra,now 55,vowed to...
Tue, Feb 16, 2010February 16, 2010 02:51 IST
When he was just 16 years old,Bipin Ganatra lost his elder brother in a freak fire. At that time,Ganatra,now 55,vowed to himself that he would try and save the lives of others caught in a fire.
Tue, Feb 16, 2010




