Sources: BBC The Hindu
At least ten people are killed and two others are reported missing when heavy rainfall triggered multiple landslides in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. 2025-10-4
A bus collides with a stationary truck in Bardhaman, West Bengal, India, killing ten people and injuring 35 others. 2025-08-15
Nine people are killed after a head-on collision between a truck and a car in West Bengal, India. 2025-06-20
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
At least nine people are killed and about 50 others injured when a train derails in Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal, India. 2022-01-13
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
Violent riots break out in Kaliachak, West Bengal, India, after political activist Kamlesh Tiwari allegedly insulted the Muslim prophet Muhammad. 2016-01-5
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