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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

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

The World Health Organization officially confirms a human Influenza A virus subtype H9N2 case in a child in West Bengal state, India.
2024-06-14

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

Four people are killed and four more are wounded after security forces open fire on protesters during election-related violence in West Bengal, India. Another person is killed when unknown gunmen fire at voters at a polling booth.
2021-04-10

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

Toxic illegal alcohol kills 166 people in West Bengal, India.
2011-12-14

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

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