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Police kills 4 at Dinhata, FB calls WB bandh tomorrow

At least four Forward Bloc workers were killed and nearly a dozen more were injured when police fired several round on a Forward Bloc demonstration outside the office of Dinhata Sub Divisional Officer (SDO) on Tuesday afternoon.
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West Bengal reports of anthrax outbreak

West Bengal reports of anthrax outbreak...
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West Bengal Bans Poultry Trade State-wide To Check Virus

West Bengal Tuesday imposed a total ban on the sale and purchase of chickens and eggs to contain avian influenza though the situation has been brought under control since the Jan 15 outbreak and more than three million poultry birds culled....
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IBM dismisses 180-odd freshers in Kolkata

IBM is silent on the actual number of ELTPs ( entry-level trainee programmers ) dismissed, the total is likely to be in excess of 700 across company locations nationally, including 180-odd in Kolkata alone....
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Two members of culling team show suspected infection symptoms

Two members of the culling team, who were admitted to hospital, in South 24-Parganas have shown signs of suspected bird flu infection...
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Elope drama at Howrah station

a 24-year-old youth, who had eloped with an 18-year-old girl, was beaten up by the girl's father...
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New cable cut compounds net woes

A submarine cable in the Middle East has been snapped, adding to global net problems caused by breaks in two lines under the Mediterranean on Wednesday....
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I would have handled the incident much better : Dalmiya

Former BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya said on Friday he could have handled the Harbhajan Singh incident much better, had he been at the helm of affairs....
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Undersea cable breakdown hits Internet-based services

Internet service providers have been affected due to a major underwater cable breakdown in the Mediterranean sea...
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Fresh bird flu case in Howrah

Fresh outbreak of bird flu was reported...
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No Kolkata Book Fair till alternative site is found: Guild

its organiser on Monday decided not to go ahead with it till an alternative site was found....
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Body of student slain in US arrives in Ranchi

Abhijit Mahto, the Indian doctoral student who was killed in the US, his body arrived Saturday afternoon....
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India Hosts Sarkozy Amid Tight Security

India hosted French President Nicolas Sarkozy at Republic Day on Saturday with a parade showcasing its military might amid tight security across the country, especially ...
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Birdflu spreads in WB, scares neighbouring states

Almost half of West Bengal was today in the grip of bird flu which is knocking at the doors of Kolkata and sending jitters in neighbouring Bihar and Meghalaya....
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West Bengal communists enlist cadres to battle bird flu

The communist government of West Bengal has asked thousands of its cadres to help veterinary staff cull birds ...
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Market recovers

The markets closed in red but showed remarkable recovery and were off the lows.It was yet another scary session, which opened with circuit down, and ...
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Hunger death cloud over Belpahari

Mila Sabar has nowhere to go. This 60-year-old resident of Belpahari's Darra village - where starvation deaths are not unheard of - lost her husband on December 22, because the family could not manage even a morsel a day....
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Two Bangladeshi terrorists arrested in WB

"Sk Alamgir, (44) a resident of Feni, and Samim Akhtar, (47) a resident of Dhaka, were involved in supplying secret documents to Bangladesh and Pakistan" ...
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No human infection reported due to bird flu

Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said that there have been no reports of humans getting infected by the bird flu ...
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Culling of poultry underway in West Bengal

Almost a week after the outbreak of bird flu, the authorities have started culling poultry in West Bengal's Birbhum district. ...
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Student unrest, infrastructure dog premier tech college

"There is no proper academic system at the institution. The present administration is not competent enough to cope with the situation and thus student unrest ...
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100 Years Ago Today

Yesterday a coachman of a ticca gharry was brought up before a Deputy Magistrate of Howrah, on a charge of having rashly driven his carriage ...
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Tenant and kids live in terror

"Ashrafilal Sahu is a menace, but we dare not protest as he keeps boasting of his connections with the cops" Tenant and kids live ...
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Modi sweeps Gujarat, Congress concedes defeat

Narendra Modi has done it again. The BJP has won nearly 2/3rd majority with 117 seats, while the main opposition Congress has had to settle with around 60 in the 182-member assembly....
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