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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

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

Violent riots break out in Kaliachak, West Bengal, India, after political activist Kamlesh Tiwari allegedly insulted the Muslim prophet Muhammad.
2016-01-5

Six people are injured in a bomb explosion on a bus in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal.
2013-08-18

A pedestrian suspension bridge collapse in Bijanbari, near Darjeeling, West Bengal, India, kills at least 34 people and injures over 100.
2011-10-22

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

At least 100 people are killed in India after a powerful storm demolished thousands of homes in West Bengal.
2010-04-14

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