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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

An SUV and a bus collide in Marishda, East Midnapore, West Bengal, India, killing the SUV's six occupants.
2018-06-27

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

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

4 people, including two Central Reserve Police Force men, are killed and 2 others are injured in an evening landmine blast in the remote parts of South Gadchiroli. The attack is carried out by Maoists.
2010-10-4

About 70 Indian police personnel are reported missing in Chhattisgarh forests amid a major engagement with Maoist guerrillas; they are later found. No casualties have been reported.
2010-08-4

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

Union Minister of Home Affairs of the Republic of India P. Chidambaram takes "full responsibility" for the killing of 76 paramilitary troops in Tuesday's Maoist ambush in Chhattisgarh — history's deadliest attack on security forces by Maoist insurgents — and offers to resign.
2010-04-9