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Toll in Howrah bus accident rises to 14

Toll in Howrah bus accident rises to 14

July 5th, 2009 - 6:24 pm ICT by IANS -
Kolkata, July 5 (IANS) With two more of the injured succumbing Sunday, the toll in Saturday's Howrah mini-bus accident has risen to 14, according to West Bengal police here. Eight others being ...

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Nine dead as speeding bus falls on Howrah rail tracks (Second Lead)

Nine dead as speeding bus falls on Howrah rail tracks (Second Lead)

July 4th, 2009 - 10:21 pm ICT by IANS -
Kolkata, July 4 (IANS) Nine people were killed Saturday when a speeding mini bus skidded off a bridge turned slippery by rain water and fell about 50 feet between two platforms ...

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Nine dead as speeding bus falls on rail tracks (Lead)

July 4th, 2009 - 8:52 pm ICT by IANS -
Kolkata, July 4 (IANS) Nine people were killed Saturday when a speeding mini bus skidded off a bridge turned slippery by rain water and fell about 50 feet between two platforms of ...

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Ten killed as bus plunges onto railway track from bridge in Kolkata

July 4th, 2009 - 7:28 pm ICT by ANI -
Kolkata, July 4 (ANI): Atleast ten persons, including three women, were killed and 40 others injured when a mini bus carrying passengers fell from the over bridge onto a railway track of ...

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At least seven dead as bus falls on rail tracks

July 4th, 2009 - 6:25 pm ICT by IANS -
Kolkata, July 4 (IANS) At least seven people died after the bus in which they were travelling fell off a bridge on the rail tracks near the Howrah station in West Bengal ...

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Relatives complain lack of information on rail tragedy

February 14th, 2009 - 1:17 am ICT by IANS -
Kolkata, Feb 13 (IANS) Anxious relatives of the passengers of the Howrah-Chennai Coromandel Express, which derailed in Orissa Friday evening, rushed to the Howrah station here to enquire about their fate but ...

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Chidambaram reviews West Bengal law and order situation

December 8th, 2008 - 10:21 pm ICT by IANS -
Kolkata, Dec 8 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram Monday reviewed West Bengal's law and order situation at a meeting held here against the backdrop of the Mumbai terror strikes.Chidambaram, who was here ...

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Kashmiri held for links to Mumbai terror may not be policeman (Lead, Changing dateline)

December 6th, 2008 - 5:48 pm ICT by IANS -
Kolkata/Srinagar, Dec 6 (IANS) A Kashmiri man arrested for allegedly providing a SIM card used by terrorists involved in the Mumbai terror strikes, may not have been a policeman as reported, Kolkata ...

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Teenager commits suicide at West Bengal ‘home’

November 25th, 2008 - 7:46 pm ICT by IANS -
Kolkata, Nov 25 (IANS) A teenager girl, suffering from mental disorder, has committed suicide by hanging herself at a state-run home for destitute women in West Bengal's Howrah district, police said Tuesday."Asha ...

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High-powered explosives recovered in Kolkatas Howrah station

September 23rd, 2008 - 10:01 pm ICT by ANI -
Kolkata, Sept 23 (ANI): A green box apparently containing high-powered explosives was on Tuesday recovered at Indias busiest Howrah Railway Station in West Bengal by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) spreading ...

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West Bengal hit by Trinamul shutdown

April 21st, 2008 - 4:59 pm ICT by admin -
Kolkata, April 21 (IANS) Train services in West Bengal were hit while schools and colleges were closed Monday during a 12-hour strike over rising food prices, with Rahul Gandhi cancelling his flight ...

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