West Bengal

A wild bison strayed out of its habitat and went on the rampage in a village in West Bengal killing one man and injuring six others.

He was one of the first to point out decades ago the problem of arsenic contamination in deep water wells in West Bengal and Bangladesh.

West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, a key national Communist leader, says the American president "has gone out of his mind. "

To be fair, only so much of the blame can be apportioned to the West Bengal government.

The West Bengal opposition is now relishing the chance to accuse the commies of cosying up to capitalists at the expense of the peasantry.

Two years ago, Tata lost out to farmers in West Bengal who refused to make way for a factory to churn out Nano cars.

The new government of the Indian state of West Bengal signed an agreement to allow some autonomy to its ethnic Nepali population.

In West Bengal, a poor household will typically have three breadwinners doing seven occupations between them.

Poor, barren and largely neglected by the government, West Bengal's tribal areas are just the sort of place where Naxalites thrive.

Maoist Naxalite rebels in India claimed to have "liberated" an area in the state of West Bengal, seizing control from the local government.

Modern accessories add flash to a traditional street scene in Kolkata, capital of the state of West Bengal.

The cyclone packed winds of up to 120 kilometers an hour, destroying power and telephone lines and uprooting trees in Bihar and West Bengal.

Calcutta, the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, is not usually a major destination for the world's leading financiers.

A delta at the mouth of the river Ganges, the Sundarbans spread across parts of Bangladesh and West Bengal, India.

More fundamentally still , as the dispute over land in West Bengal shows , it is hard to engineer mass migration in a democracy .

A year ago police launched a big campaign in Lalgarh, West Bengal, to recapture the area from Maoist rebels.

At least 102 people have died after consuming toxic alcohol in India's West Bengal state, police say.

The storm ripped across Indias West Bengal and Bihar states and neighboring parts of Bangladesh late Tuesday.

On October 29, the police found the priest's personal belongings in a dustbin in New Jalpaiguri railway station in West Bengal state.

West Bengal, where the communist parties have perhaps their largest presence in India, is rather famous for its commitment to land reform.

It took just a short time for these women from West Bengal to reconnect with their families.

Not coincidentally, West Bengal has been ruled for 30 years by the Communists, who until a few years ago opposed most industrialisation.

Football is particularly popular in two regions in India - Calcutta and West Bengal.

Two decades after the rest of the world sent Communists packing, the voters of West Bengal have at last followed suit.

Running West Bengal, a state of 90m, will be harder than populist campaigning.

A passenger train ploughed into another that was waiting at a station in the town of Sainthia, West Bengal state, early on Monday.

By contrast, poorly performing rulers, eg, in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, have been sent packing.

The latest outbreak to be reported in the region was on 16 March in India's West Bengal state.

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Today, roughly 84 percent of rural land in West Bengal is owned by ordinary peasants, compared with a national average of about 43 percent.

The factory will be in communist-run West Bengal, a state chosen partly because it is in need of industrial development.

"In Bangladesh, which adjoins West Bengal, the virus has spread to nearly half of the country, " said Pawar.

As chief minister of West Bengal, he realised that economic liberalisation and the rise of China were making old orthodoxies redundant.

Arsenic is a natural substance in the pyrite bedrock underlying most of the ground area in West Bengal.

Last week the government of West Bengal approved the construction of a new factory at Singur, near Kolkata (Calcutta).

All had been trafficked from the eastern states of Bihar and West Bengal, over 300 miles away.

Various departments of the West Bengal government are housed in this building.

Regulations stopped its manufacturer, the Tata group, starting a factory in West Bengal.

West Bengal is a crowded state, which went further than most to return land to the tiller.

A landmark in the politics of West Bengal. Nationally, some confusing signals.

John was expert in Persian and Bengali and administered a province in West Bengal.

People of Bangladesh and West Bengal in India share a common culture and language.

West Bengal's Communist rulers promised last month to reserve 10% of "government jobs" for Muslims.

More than 120 million people in the Indian state of West Bengal and neighbouring Bangladesh pay a high price for living there.

With state elections due in Bihar later this year and in West Bengal next, Congress's leaders badly want to encourage this trend.

The Marxists held West Bengal mostly thanks to farmers, who have long been grateful for land reforms in the late 1970s.

Local time at 10: 30 on the 30th Xu, a tugboat in the state of West Bengal near Sagar Island, Bristol capsized in the river Ganga.

In West Bengal alone 14, 000 people have succumbed to arsenic poisoning, which can cause skin lesions, skin cancer and death.

West Bengal voters will decide on the Left Front next year.

The creature walked into Dalsingpara village in the Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal state on Sunday (March 21).

Land protests last year forced the company to close its factory in the Indian state of West Bengal.

The government of West Bengal has said it will raise the limit. It has also paid peasants more than the law obliged for their land.

2010-7-22A collision between two trains in West Bengal, India, killed at least 63 people.

Over 300, 000 people in West Bengal have symptoms of exposure, ranging from lesions to cancers of the skin and internal organs.

At the same time, Maoist rebels in the West Bengal countryside are a constant source of agitation.

The Marxist thugs are out again to kill the common people in West Bengal.

In inflexible states, such as West Bengal, Orissa and Maharashtra, they grew by only 3. 5%.

For example, few in West Bengal can spell out what the energetic Ms Banerjee stands for.

West Bengal's populist chief minister is doing badly. Yet she typifies shifts in power in India

West Bengal University of Technology