Sources: BBC The Hindu
At least 12 people are killed during flash flooding in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. 2025-09-23
Four people are killed in a firecracker explosion in Kalyani, West Bengal, India. 2025-02-7
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
Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina resigns and flees to West Bengal, India. 2024-08-5
An SUV and a bus collide in Marishda, East Midnapore, West Bengal, India, killing the SUV's six occupants. 2018-06-27
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
At least 50 people drown after a ferry-boat capsizes on the Muri Ganga River in West Bengal, India. 2010-11-1
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