Jalpaiguri Fire

Irate examinees on Sunday went on the rampage at New Jalpaiguri railway station ransacking the station master's office, damaging an engine and two AC coaches and trying to set fire to the station.

At least 150 shops, including six selling fire crackers, were gutted in a fire which razed through the oldest market in Jalpaiguri.

The girl injured in police firing on Tuesday at Sipchu in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district dies in hospital.Three people have now died in the firing.The police had opened fire on Gorkha Janmukti Morcha supporters at Sipchu for violating Section 144.Close to 3000 Morcha supporters were on a relay hungerstrike since 29th January at Sipchu at the bor...

Gorkha Janmukti Morcha today demanded CBI inquiry into the death of two of its supporters in police firing at Sibchu in Jalpaiguri district."We demand CBI inquiry since police, despite having rubber bullets, did not use those on GJM demonstrators killing two on the spot yesterday," GJM general secretary Roshan Giri told reporters here. He claimed a...

Irate examinees on Sunday went on the rampage at New Jalpaiguri railway station ransacking the station master's office, damaging an engine and two AC coaches and trying to set fire to the station.

At least 150 shops, including six selling fire crackers, were gutted in a fire which razed through the oldest market in Jalpaiguri.

The girl injured in police firing on Tuesday at Sipchu in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district dies in hospital.Three people have now died in the firing.The police had opened fire on Gorkha Janmukti Morcha supporters at Sipchu for violating Section 144.Close to 3000 Morcha supporters were on a relay hungerstrike since 29th January at Sipchu at the bor...

Gorkha Janmukti Morcha today demanded CBI inquiry into the death of two of its supporters in police firing at Sibchu in Jalpaiguri district."We demand CBI inquiry since police, despite having rubber bullets, did not use those on GJM demonstrators killing two on the spot yesterday," GJM general secretary Roshan Giri told reporters here. He claimed a...