The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Siliguri, Nov. 6: The 26 workers of Nowera Nuddy Tea Estate who had been on an indefinite hunger strike since Monday withdrew their agitation today after Jalpaiguri district magistrate Vandana Yadav wrote to Tata Tea to reopen it by November 13.
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | yesterday
... journey from Numaligarh Refinery in Assam’s Golaghat district to Budge Budge via Rampurhat, New Jalpaiguri and Burdwan. The train also touched Nagaland and Bihar along the way. “The train covered a long distance and we do not know yet where the pilferage took place,” Asit Pal, the deputy commissioner of the police’s port division, told Metro. The railways would have to compensate Bharat...
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | yesterday
Many long distance trains like the down Rajdhani Exress, down Bangalore Express, Kamrup Express, Saraighat Express and goods trains have been stopped at different stations like Bongaigaon, Gossaigaon, Bijni and Basugaon in Assam along with New Jalpaiguri station in Bengal.
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... will take around half an hour. We boarded the Kanchan Kanya Express from Calcutta and reached New Jalpaiguri station. From there we hired a car that took us to Lava, through Gorubathan amid lush tea gardens. We spent two days in Lava visiting the Kagyu Thekchen monastery, the serene Changay falls and also Lolegaon, a picturesque little village. Next we headed for Rishop.The road to Rishop...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... percentage of polling was over 65 per cent. The highest of 75 per cent was recorded at Rajgunj in Jalpaiguri district, North Bengal. The lowest — 45 per cent — was at Alipore, an elite residential locality in South Kolkata which was vacated by Trinamool Congress legislator Tapas Pal, who had won by a margin of over 11,00 votes. He is now a Trinamool Congress MP in Lok Sabha. The CEO said...
Times of India (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... central paramilitary forces and 75 companies of state police personnel were deployed. Rajganj in Jalpaiguri district registered 75% votes, the highest, and Alipore in Kolkata the lowest of 45%, Sen said. According to him, 12 people were arrested from West Midnapore and North 24-Parganas districts for electoral malpractices and on charges of impersonation. The byelections are considered to...
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... districts of the state including Murshidabad, Nadia, Birbhum, Hooghly , 24 Paragans (N), Burdwan, Jalpaiguri, Midnapur (W) and Malda have widespread sulphur deficiency. Moreover, a major portion of rice and wheat growing areas in the state has also shown deficiency in zinc, boron, manganese and copper. “Most of these areas have been avoiding organic manures with the spread of green revolution...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... taken an off day in the past 10 days, Majumdar said.The deputy chief medical officer of health of Jalpaiguri, Dilip Dey, said 97 people had died of malaria in 2006, 47 in 2007, six in 2008 and 16 till October 31 this year.“We have already distributed 34,105 medicated mosquito nets in the four blocks of Dhupguri, Kalchini, Alipurduar II and Kumargram. I will sit with the doctors in Nagrakata...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... will be hit. Yesterday, tea board officials had made a surprise visit to a BLF at Mainaguri in Jalpaiguri district and destroyed around 5,000kg of rotten tealeaves, allegedly put for processing. “It has become a practice for bought-leaf factories (BLFs) to blame us whenever any question is raised on the quality of tea produced at their units,” said Bijoygopal Chakraborty, the vice-president...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
... district on October 19. A carbine was also seized from the house. On October 24, a team of Jalpaiguri police went to Kokrajhar and interrogated Hembram. On the basis of information gathered from him, he was brought to Alipurduar. The police booked him under several sections of the IPC. S.R. Mishra, the additional superintendent of police of Alipurduar, said: “We have booked him in connection...
