Bus route in dead owner’s name: DM orders probe
The East Burdwan district administration has woken up to the fact on how a passenger route was allowed to continue even though the route owner had died eight months ago.
The East Burdwan district administration has woken up to the fact on how a passenger route was allowed to continue even though the route owner had died eight months ago.
Just a language barrier caused the death of a wage labourer in East Burdwan today and a lorry driver from Andhra Pradesh had to surrender to the police, as a result.
A bus route in East Burdwan is active, for which the permit is in the name of a dead woman. According to the Motor Vehicles Act this is illegal.
Two civic towns of East Burdwan, Katwa and Dainhat gears up for Kartik Lorai (duel) with all devotion and excitement as these are remnants of two key religious and cultural events over centuries here.
A youth was arrested on charges of molestation at a village within the Kotulpur PS area in Bankura.
The East Burdwan district election authorities have declared 51 booths of Khandaghosh block as critical today.
A fifth boy, two 8th and seven 10th boys & girls shared the state merit list of Madhyamik from East Burdwan and Bankura this year.
A shepherd and two farmers were killed by lightning while roofs of houses were sent flying, a running car was flung from a bridge, electric poles and trees were uprooted by strong winds in a storm that struck two blocks in East Burdwan and one in adjacent Hooghly district on Sunday morning.
A mother jumped into the Bhagirathi river to rescue her drowning son and had to be rescued by some local fish vendors in Katwa in East Burdwan. The son is still missing and presumed dead.
Disguised as customers, the forest officials recovered hefty deer antlers and arrested five traffickers from a village in East Burdwan today.
