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Darjeeling MP raises concerns over tea garden land diversion

Darjeeling MP Raju Bista has strongly opposed chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s decision to allow 30 per cent of tea garden land to be diverted for non-tea purposes, calling it a “dangerous and dictatorial” policy that could displace indigenous communities.

ER’s Sealdah division carries 1 cr+ commuters

With mammoth crowds thronging the puja pandals, the Sealdah division of the Eastern Railway carried more than one crore commuters in the suburban section during the peak festive days between 8 October and 12 October.

Husband jumps to death after wife falls from balcony, dies

In a bizarre incident, a husband jumped from the rooftop into a high-tension electric wire and committed suicide after his wife accidentally fell from the rooftop of a house in Purulia while watching the display of fire crackers during the immersion of the Durga Puja idols last evening.