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'Woke Up To Unknown Men...': Doctor's 3 AM Encounter At Kolkata Hospital
Five years ago, the government of West Bengal pledged to clamp down on violence against doctors. It promised public hospitals better security equipment, women guards to support female physicians and controlled entry points, Reuters reported.
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Assam Teacher Arrested For Derogatory Post Against PM, BJP: Police
A guest lecturer at a college in Assam's Silchar was arrested for posting alleged derogatory comments against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP on Facebook in wake of the violence in Delhi, police said on Saturday.
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Kolkata College To Get New Vidyasagar Bust, Says Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said a new bust of social reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar will be installed at the Vidyasagar College in place of the old one, which was desecrated by miscreants last month.
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Bengal Government Forms Panel To Probe Destruction Of Vidyasagar Statue
The West Bengal government has formed a five-member committee to look into the desecration of the bust of Vidyasagar during a BJP rally in the city earlier this month, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Monday.
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Violence At Amit Shah's Kolkata Rally; Stones Thrown, Vehicles Burnt
BJP chief Amit Shah's mega rally in Kolkata, that wowed residents with scale and street-party air, ran into trouble later this evening. Clashes broke out and the police stepped in and used batons on the crowds.
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1 Dead After Clashes In Bengal's Birbhum Over 'Offensive' Facebook Post
At least one person was killed after mob allegedly attacked a police station and damaged vehicles in Illambazar and Dubrajpur areas of Birbhum district on Tuesday after a college student made an "objectionable" post on a social networking website.
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West Bengal Trinamool Lawmaker Arrested For Campus Violence Gets Bail
A West Bengal court on today granted bail to Trinamool Congress MLA Dipak Haldar who was yesterday arrested for his alleged involvement in campus violence.
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Students in Uniform Run Riot in West Bengal School, Beat Up Teacher
In West Bengal, a school that shares its campus with a college became a battlefield today with college students first manhandling the school headmaster and vandalising his office and then school students ransacking an office in the college building.
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Doubts Over Trinamool Hand In Bengal Student's Murder, Opposition Cries Foul
Fresh controversy has erupted in West Bengal's West Midnapore district where a 21-year-old student, a member of the Congress party's youth wing, was beaten to death inside a college at Sabang.
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Bengal College Student Allegedly Killed By Trinamool Congress Youth Activists
A third-year college student was beaten to death today in West Bengal's West Midnapore district allegedly by members of the Trinamool Congress' youth wing.
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Violence Plagues College Union Elections in West Bengal
In West Bengal, college union elections are on, and Calcutta University goes to the polls on Saturday. But for the first time in recent history, the Students Federation of India (SFI), which is the students' wing of the CPI (M), is not even contesting. Not because they didn't want to, but because they were not allowed to file nominations. By the Tr...
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Guns openly flashed during college union elections in West Bengal's Malda district
Violence and chaos marked the college union elections in West Bengal's Malda district with students openly flashing and firing guns despite the cameras around.
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I apologise, we failed you, says Governor at Presidency University
At Presidency University today, West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan said that he had failed its students by failing to protect them from violence on campus. However, he said that "others too have to share the blame".
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West Bengal Governor condemns violence at Presidency University
West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan today condemned vandalism in Presidency University and said those involved should be treated like "criminals."
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In West Bengal, increasing violence among and against students
The death of Student Federation of India (SFI) leader Sudipto Gupta in Kolkata on Tuesday may still be mired in controversy, but it has highlighted the spate of violence on college and even school campuses in West Bengal over the last year, especially after Mamata Banerjee took over as Chief Minister.
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'Woke Up To Unknown Men...': Doctor's 3 AM Encounter At Kolkata Hospital
Five years ago, the government of West Bengal pledged to clamp down on violence against doctors. It promised public hospitals better security equipment, women guards to support female physicians and controlled entry points, Reuters reported.
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Assam Teacher Arrested For Derogatory Post Against PM, BJP: Police
A guest lecturer at a college in Assam's Silchar was arrested for posting alleged derogatory comments against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP on Facebook in wake of the violence in Delhi, police said on Saturday.
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Kolkata College To Get New Vidyasagar Bust, Says Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said a new bust of social reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar will be installed at the Vidyasagar College in place of the old one, which was desecrated by miscreants last month.
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Bengal Government Forms Panel To Probe Destruction Of Vidyasagar Statue
The West Bengal government has formed a five-member committee to look into the desecration of the bust of Vidyasagar during a BJP rally in the city earlier this month, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Monday.
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Violence At Amit Shah's Kolkata Rally; Stones Thrown, Vehicles Burnt
BJP chief Amit Shah's mega rally in Kolkata, that wowed residents with scale and street-party air, ran into trouble later this evening. Clashes broke out and the police stepped in and used batons on the crowds.
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1 Dead After Clashes In Bengal's Birbhum Over 'Offensive' Facebook Post
At least one person was killed after mob allegedly attacked a police station and damaged vehicles in Illambazar and Dubrajpur areas of Birbhum district on Tuesday after a college student made an "objectionable" post on a social networking website.
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West Bengal Trinamool Lawmaker Arrested For Campus Violence Gets Bail
A West Bengal court on today granted bail to Trinamool Congress MLA Dipak Haldar who was yesterday arrested for his alleged involvement in campus violence.
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Students in Uniform Run Riot in West Bengal School, Beat Up Teacher
In West Bengal, a school that shares its campus with a college became a battlefield today with college students first manhandling the school headmaster and vandalising his office and then school students ransacking an office in the college building.
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Doubts Over Trinamool Hand In Bengal Student's Murder, Opposition Cries Foul
Fresh controversy has erupted in West Bengal's West Midnapore district where a 21-year-old student, a member of the Congress party's youth wing, was beaten to death inside a college at Sabang.
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Bengal College Student Allegedly Killed By Trinamool Congress Youth Activists
A third-year college student was beaten to death today in West Bengal's West Midnapore district allegedly by members of the Trinamool Congress' youth wing.
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Violence Plagues College Union Elections in West Bengal
In West Bengal, college union elections are on, and Calcutta University goes to the polls on Saturday. But for the first time in recent history, the Students Federation of India (SFI), which is the students' wing of the CPI (M), is not even contesting. Not because they didn't want to, but because they were not allowed to file nominations. By the Tr...
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Guns openly flashed during college union elections in West Bengal's Malda district
Violence and chaos marked the college union elections in West Bengal's Malda district with students openly flashing and firing guns despite the cameras around.
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I apologise, we failed you, says Governor at Presidency University
At Presidency University today, West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan said that he had failed its students by failing to protect them from violence on campus. However, he said that "others too have to share the blame".
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West Bengal Governor condemns violence at Presidency University
West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan today condemned vandalism in Presidency University and said those involved should be treated like "criminals."
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In West Bengal, increasing violence among and against students
The death of Student Federation of India (SFI) leader Sudipto Gupta in Kolkata on Tuesday may still be mired in controversy, but it has highlighted the spate of violence on college and even school campuses in West Bengal over the last year, especially after Mamata Banerjee took over as Chief Minister.
