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Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina resigns and flees to West Bengal, India.
2024-08-5

Eleven people are killed and sixty others are injured when a cargo train collides with a Kanchanjungha Express passenger train in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India.
2024-06-17

The prominent Bengali poet and novelist Sunil Gangopadhyay dies from a heart attack in the West Bengal capital Kolkata.
2012-10-23

The Government of West Bengal cancels the hospital's license following the fire.
2011-12-9

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

Two villagers and 10 Naxalites are killed in firing between a group of criminals and Maoists in Munger, India.
2010-12-1

Suspected Maoist rebels kill six policemen in eastern India.
2010-10-23

A large Maoist-led strike in Kathmandu shuts down the city in a bid to force Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal to resign.
2010-05-2

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