Cyclone Amphan roared into West Bengal around 20 kilometre east of Sagar Island in the Sunderbans on Wednesday, packing winds gusting to a top speed of 185 kmph, triggering torrential rain and leaving a trail of devastation across a wide swath of the state, from deltaic regions to the urban […]
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Cyclone Amphan to hit Bengal at 4 pm, CM Mamata to monitor from secretariat
Cyclone ‘Amphan’, one of the worst cyclones over the Bay of Bengal, lay centred about 170 km south of West Bengal’s Digha on Wednesday. About 4.5 lakh people have been evacuated from vulnerable areas in West Bengal and Odisha ahead of the its landfall. ‘Amphan’, termed as an extremely severe cyclonic […]
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Robbers tie up Bengal civil servant and wife, rob them at home
A gang of five robbers barged into the official residence of a West Bengal civil service officer in North 24 Parganas district early on Friday morning and looted valuables after tying up the bureaucrat and his wife. The robbery took place at Habra, around 50km from Kolkata at the house […]