Burdwan News

Burdwan Dakshin MLA Khokan Das made a fiery statement about hiring fraud. Khokan Das attacked the Left vehemently on the subject of corruption. He alleged, "Illegality is what the leftists have taught."

Post-poll violence and vandalism continue unabated in West Bengal ever since Trinamool Congress emerged as the winner in the assembly election 2021. Violence has been reported in several parts of West Bengal after the results of the assembly elections were declared on May 2. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has alleged that nine of its party workers have been killed in the post-poll violence. However, the TMC is denying the allegations. 

A portion of the main entrance of the Burdwan railway station collapsed on Saturday (January 4) injuring several people while a few are still trapped underneath.

Mallik was the working president of the Agriculture department at Kalna 1 Panchayat Samiti. He was was home from Trinamool party office on Friday night when two bike-borne miscreants opened fire on him.

A major train accident was averted on Howrah-New Delhi route in Burdwan district due to the alertness and swift action of a local resident on Sunday.

While authorities are taking every step to save children from falling pray to dangerous online game Blue Whale, a college student in Burdwan district of West Bengal has become its latest victim.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress registered a landslide victory in all seven urban local bodies, where elections were held on August 13.

It was a providential escape for 62-year-old Tapati Chowdhury who kept herself afloat for 13 hours in the turbulent Damodar river in flood-hit Burdwan district, till she was rescued 80 km away.

Seven people were killed and two others injured in a major road accident in Kanksa area of Burdwan district in West Bengal on Sunday.

Seven persons, including two kids and three women, died in a road accident on Wednesday when their car was crushed under a tanker in West Bengal`s Burdwan district, police said.

Three persons were seriously injured in an explosion that occurred when they were making bombs in an under-construction house of a local Trinamool Congress leader in Burdwan district on Wednesday, the police said.

At least three persons were seriously injured in a blast at a construction site in Bardhaman district of West Bengal.

The West Bengal government is approaching the central government seeking to take over the probe of theft of Rabindranath Tagore`s Nobel Prize medallion, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Friday.

Central Intelligence agencies and Tamil Nadu police have taken into custody the wife and some family members of a suspected ISIS terrorist who was arrested in West Bengal, police said.

The suspected terrorist arrested from Viswabharati Fast Passenger train at Burdwan station has links to terror groups Islamic State (ISIS) and Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), a top CID officer said on Tuesday.

The West Bengal Police on Monday arrested a suspected terrorist from a passenger train at Burdwan station. 

A tribal woman has been found living with the decomposed body of her father in Burdwan district of West Bengal, police said on Sunday.

In yet another accident involving school vehicles in the state, eight students on Saturday were injured when a school bus collided with a lorry at Memari in Burdwan district.

 A goods train derailed and its guard was critically injured when a train engine rammed it from behind in Asansol division of Eastern Railway this evening, triggering disruption of services, ER officials said

The accident had sparked violent protest in Nadia district on Sunday.