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West Bengal Police fire tear gas and water cannons at protesting university students and medical professionals demanding the resignation of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her handling in the rape and murder case of a medic in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
2024-08-27

The World Health Organization officially confirms a human Influenza A virus subtype H9N2 case in a child in West Bengal state, India.
2024-06-14

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake hits the Indian states of West Bengal and Assam, part of Meghalaya, and part of Bangladesh, causing damage to houses and buildings. Two people die from heart attacks, while ten others are wounded by the earthquake itself.
2021-04-28

Four people are killed and four more are wounded after security forces open fire on protesters during election-related violence in West Bengal, India. Another person is killed when unknown gunmen fire at voters at a polling booth.
2021-04-10

A bus plunges into the Bhairab River after falling off a bridge in Murshidabad district, West Bengal, India, killing at least 36 people. The late response by rescuers to save passengers leads to violence between local residents and police.
2018-01-29

Toxic illegal alcohol kills 166 people in West Bengal, India.
2011-12-14

Six people are killed and 20 injured in political violence in West Bengal, India.
2011-01-7

At least 16 people drown and 70 are missing after an overcrowded ferry sinks in a river in West Bengal, eastern India.
2010-10-30

Two trains collide in the Birbhum district of West Bengal, India with at least 50 people feared dead.
2010-07-19

Indian communist patriarch Jyoti Basu, the longest-serving Chief Minister of West Bengal who declined the post of Prime Minister in 1996, dies at the age of 95.
2010-01-17