Purulia Deaths

Seven people including two women and four children of the same family were charred to death in West Bengal's Purulia district in the early hours of Friday, police said. The reason for the fire has not yet been ascertained.

BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya yesterday said the party would move the Calcutta High Court, and if needed the Supreme Court, to unearth the truth behind the deaths of two party workers in Purulia district.

A 30-year-old BJP worker who was found hanging from an electric pylon yesterday in West Bengal's Purulia committed suicide, doctors at a government hospital have said in the post-mortem report. The death, second in four days -- a BJP worker was found hanging from a tree in the same district on Wednesday -- has sparked a heated political blame game ...

At least two people have lost their lives in clashes that broke out in parts of West Bengal during Ram Navami processions in the last 48 hours. Violence in Murshidabad, which continued for the better part of the morning, was followed by reports of arson from Raniganj where one person has died today, police said. Another death was reported from Puru...

Angry villagers cornered a leopard and beat it to death in Tetuara village of Purulia district in West Bengal this afternoon. Villagers strung up the dead animal from a tree after chopping off its paws and tail, as many of them had been injured by the animal.

Eleven infants died within 24 hours in a hospital in West Bengal's Purulia last week. The deaths of the infants - seven of who were less than 11 months old - were reported between Friday and Saturday.

Seven people including two women and four children of the same family were charred to death in West Bengal's Purulia district in the early hours of Friday, police said. The reason for the fire has not yet been ascertained.

BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya yesterday said the party would move the Calcutta High Court, and if needed the Supreme Court, to unearth the truth behind the deaths of two party workers in Purulia district.

A 30-year-old BJP worker who was found hanging from an electric pylon yesterday in West Bengal's Purulia committed suicide, doctors at a government hospital have said in the post-mortem report. The death, second in four days -- a BJP worker was found hanging from a tree in the same district on Wednesday -- has sparked a heated political blame game ...

At least two people have lost their lives in clashes that broke out in parts of West Bengal during Ram Navami processions in the last 48 hours. Violence in Murshidabad, which continued for the better part of the morning, was followed by reports of arson from Raniganj where one person has died today, police said. Another death was reported from Puru...

Angry villagers cornered a leopard and beat it to death in Tetuara village of Purulia district in West Bengal this afternoon. Villagers strung up the dead animal from a tree after chopping off its paws and tail, as many of them had been injured by the animal.

Eleven infants died within 24 hours in a hospital in West Bengal's Purulia last week. The deaths of the infants - seven of who were less than 11 months old - were reported between Friday and Saturday.