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

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

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

A bus plunges into the Bhairab River after falling off a bridge in Murshidabad district, West Bengal, India, killing at least 36 people. The late response by rescuers to save passengers leads to violence between local residents and police.
2018-01-29

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

40 confirmed people die in a fire in the AMRI Hospital in the Indian city of Kolkata.
2011-12-9

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

The Women's Commission of West Bengal says there will be an inquiry into the case of a tribal woman who is reported to have been paraded naked around several villages and filmed in this act via a mobile phone.
2010-08-11

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