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Bengal man gets death sentence for minor’s rape and murder

A court in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district on Friday awarded death sentence to a convict, and life imprisonment to another, for the rape and murder of a minor in Farakka on October 13, 2024. Additional Director General West Bengal Police, Supratim Sarkar, said that the main target of the police was to submit the chargesheet as early as possible so …

Murder Rape Capital Punishment Bengal Minor Death Sentence Farakka

2 weeks, 3 days ago

20-member all-women Ganga rafting team begins Patna-to-Farakka journey

India Today

In a landmark initiative championing women's empowerment and the mission for a clean and pure Ganga, the all-women Ganga River rafting team, The 20-member team of women border guards, along with two Border Security Force officers and support staff, began their 53-day adventure from Gangotri on November 2. Continuing their voyage, the team departed from Patna on 5 December, heading …

Women Kolkata West Bengal Patna Ganga Bsf Farakka

3 months, 3 weeks ago

India Dismisses Reports Linking Opening of Farakka Barrage to Flooding in Bangladesh

Deccan Chronicle

New Delhi:India on Monday trashed reports in Bangladesh that the opening of the Farakka barrage in West Bengal is causing floods in some areas in the neighbouring country. "We have seen media reports of the opening of Farakka barrage gates that will allow the flow of over 11 lakh cusecs of water downstream of the river in its natural course …

India Bangladesh River Jaiswal Ganga Farakka Farakka Barrage

1 year, 2 months ago

Bihar to relinquish 832 MW power from NTPC, allays fears of shortage

Hindustan Times

The Bihar State Power Company Limited on Friday sent a confirmation to surrender from Sunday 832 MW power from the NTPC quota of 7001 MW thermal power to the state, said power officials. The BSPHCL, in an email to the NTPC, said it was exiting from the over 25-year-old bulk power supply agreement from two units of Farakka and one …

India Bihar Plants Power Plant Kumar Unit

1 year, 7 months ago

Bihar serves notice to NTPC to surrender 854 MW power by Oct

Hindustan Times

PATNA: The Bihar State Power Holding Company Limited has served notice to the National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd to surrender its 854 MW thermal power out of the state’s central allocation of 6,560 MW, said state power officials. “We will get between 1,300 MW and 1,400 MW by December this year from the existing PPAs through new and upcoming thermal …

Renewable Energy Plants Power Cost State Centre Renewable

1 year, 9 months ago

Woman fights in-laws, takes police’s help to attend Class 12 exam in Murshidabad

Hindustan Times

A 20-year-old woman, who got married last year, fought with her husband and in-laws and took the help of police to appear for the Class 12 board examination at Farakka in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district on Thursday, police said. “On Thursday she landed at the police station alleging that her husband and in-laws had locked her in a room since …

Exam School Her Husband Sultana Her Studies Farakka Murshidabad

1 year, 10 months ago

'Illegal Acquisition, No Compensation': PIL In Calcutta HC Against Adani Power's Construction Of High-Tension Power Lines In Farakka

Live Law

The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday asked petitioners who have moved a Public Interest Litigation petition plea challenging the alleged illegal acquisition of farmland at Murshidabad district’s Farakka by the Adani Group to set up power transmission lines to supply power to Bangladesh through Bengal, to serve copies of their petition to all respondents. The high-tension electricity lines were being …

Bangladesh West Bengal Power High Transmission Lines Pil

1 year, 11 months ago

On the shifting banks of the Ganga in West Bengal

The Hindu

A few weeks after several structures, including houses and a crematorium with a Kali temple, were washed away by the river Ganga, villagers at Pratapganj and Mahestolain Murshidabad’s Shamsherganj block organised an elaborate puja but to a deity they had never seen or worshipped in the past — a goddess dressed in all-white, seated on a gharial and fish. “We, …

Kolkata West Bengal Indian Bank Jharkhand West Houses

3 years, 10 months ago

Nimtita-New Farakka section in West Bengal 100% electrified

India TV News

The Indian Railways has announced to achieve 100 per cent electrification of the Nimtita - New Farakka section in West Bengal under the Eastern Railway. According to a tweet shared by Indian Railways, the BCPL Railway Infrastructure Limited has completed the work of design, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of 25KV, 50 Hz, Single Phase, AC Electrification works. BCPL also …

Indian Railways West Bengal Railway Eastern Railway Electrification 100 Electrified

4 years, 4 months ago

Villagers spend sleepless nights as river erosion worsens in north Bengal

Hindustan Times

Dipak Saha, 56, and his family have been forced to take shelter at a school in West Bengal’s Malda for over a week. Heavy rains have swollen the river and worsened soil erosion across villages on the Ganga banks in Malda and Murshidabad districts and left thousands of families vulnerable. I have written to the state government and requested for …

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Bengal man gets death sentence for minor’s rape and murder

20-member all-women Ganga rafting team begins Patna-to-Farakka journey

India Dismisses Reports Linking Opening of Farakka Barrage to Flooding in Bangladesh

Bihar to relinquish 832 MW power from NTPC, allays fears of shortage

Bihar serves notice to NTPC to surrender 854 MW power by Oct

Woman fights in-laws, takes police’s help to attend Class 12 exam in Murshidabad

'Illegal Acquisition, No Compensation': PIL In Calcutta HC Against Adani Power's Construction Of High-Tension Power Lines In Farakka

On the shifting banks of the Ganga in West Bengal

Nimtita-New Farakka section in West Bengal 100% electrified

Villagers spend sleepless nights as river erosion worsens in north Bengal