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Hello Jammu News at 2:11:00 PM 0

Siliguri (WB), Sep 7: A bridge collapsed near Siliguri in Darjeeling district Friday morning, injuring a truck driver, West Bengal Minister Rabindranath Ghosh said.

The truck, which was crossing the bridge, is still hanging from the broken portion of the structure that connects Manganj area to Siliguri, a major city in north Bengal.

The truck driver has been rushed to hospital.

This is the second bridge collapse incident in West Bengal this week. A portion of the Majerhat Bridge on an arterial road in Kolkata collapsed on September 4. (PTI)
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Hello Jammu News at 3:26:00 PM 0


Siliguri, May 12: A government bus ferrying policemen to poll-bound north Bengal districts collided with a truck in North Dinajpur, leaving 30 people, including 28 cops, injured early today.
Siliguri's Assistant Police Commissioner Pranob Sikdar said 28 policemen, including a sub-inspector, and two civilians, were injured when the bus collided with the truck on National Highway 34.
Four of the critically wounded cops have been admitted to a private nursing home here and 25 others were shifted to the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital.
Three others SI Gopi Nath Das and truck driver and his assistant have been admitted to a hospital in North Dinajpur.
The mishap occurred at around 0050 hours when the force from the Siliguri Commissionerate was travelling in the state-owned bus for poll duty in north Bengal districts.
Panchayat elections are scheduled in the state on Monday. UNI
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Hello Jammu News at 2:32:00 PM 0

Siliguri, May 9: Driver Tek Bahadur Gurung (47) and his co-driver Gaurav Chettri (35) were today killed when their cooking gas laden truck on way to Kalimpong fell off of the road to a 70 meters gorge near Suntale khola (rivulet), according to Kalimpong ASP Amlayan Ghosh.
He said the truck carrying Indane gas on way to Kalimpong town from Siliguri fell down nearly 200 ft from NH10 at Suntaley khola, Lohapool under Reang PP.
While co-driver Gourav Chhetri of Salugara expired at the spot, driver Tek Bahadur Gurung, also from Salugara, succumbed to his wounds at the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital.
The accident occurred early this morning. The truck split nearly into splinters under the impact of the fall and gas cylinders strew around the river bed.
Fire brigade personnel reached to the spot to retrieve the gas filled cylinders. UNI
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Hello Jammu News at 1:57:00 PM 0


Siliguri, Apr 11: The management of Manjha tea garden here has announced suspension of work for indefinite period rendering some few hundreds workers jobless in this tea belt areas of north Bengal district.
The workers, who went to attend the day's job on Tuesday found the main gate was locked and a notice hung in front announcing the suspension of work for indefinite period till further a notice on the work.
The provident fund authorities recently filed a complaint with the Naxalbari police station alleged that the tea garden authorities have due more than Rs 65 lakh on account of PF and Gratuity.
The management also did not pay salary for past two weeks, as the payment is made in every end of the current week as it practiced in the tea belt.
Joint labour commissioner, Siliguri, Chandan Dasgupta said that a meeting was to be held today with the management for reopening of the garden. UNI
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Hello Jammu News at 2:06:00 PM 0


Siliguri, Mar 27: BJP leader Mukul Roy today accused the Mamata Banerjee government of "unnecessary" fomenting the issue of Ramnavami procession with arms, saying it has been a traditions in Indian culture for ages.
He said for ages the procession with arms during Ramnavami has been witnessed and it was nothing new. " But the government is unnecessarily fomenting the issue by banning it." Mr Roy, who arrived here to over see the activities of the party's functionaries ahead of visit of party chief Amit Shah, said.
He said despite the government's directive against the arms procession, the ruling Trinamool Congress also had organised such rallies with arms. He said he has documentary evidences that the TMC was organising processions with arms.
He, however, expressed sadness at the happening at Ranigunj in Asansol where IPS officer Arindam Dutta Choudhury was critically wounded in a crude bomb attack on Monday.
On the formation of the Third Front by the many opposition leaders, including AITC chief Mamata Banerjee, Mr Roy said it was a mirage.
He said the attempt to form a third front in present Indian political system was a futile exercise. UNI
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Siliguri, Mar 24: Property worth of several lakh rupees was today destroyed in a major fire charring down at least two shops and four home cum store houses at Champasari, northern part of this commercial town of Darjeeling district.
There had been no report of any casualty in the fire, which was doused after three hours by the two fire brigade engines.
The fire was noticed around 0630 hrs and destroyed all six structures before fire fighting men could take the flames and thick black smoke.
Official sources said the short circuit in the live electrical was the cause of fire.
Recently seven such structures were gutted in a fire at Champasari. UNI
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Hello Jammu News at 12:31:00 PM 0



Siliguri, Mar 17: Zoomcar, India’s first 100 per cent shared mobility platform, has launched its services here. 
Prior to the launch, Zoomcar has witnessed a large traction from residents and tourists demanding for self-drive cars here. 
In the span of five years, the company has successfully achieved around 30 lakh happy customers, ten lakh trips and 3000 cars under its fleet.
Within a few days of its pilot run in the city, Zoomcar has got around 1000 enquiries in the city. 
Starting with owning around 20 cars in Siliguri, ranging from Hatchback – Ford Figo, Maruti Swift; SUVs – Hyundai Creta, Mahindra Scorpio and Sedan – Ford Aspire, Zoomcar sees the potential of having more than 100 cars within 2018. 
Siliguri is a tourism gateway to the North Bengal Hills, Zoomcar will largely focus on incoming tourists through Bagdogra airport and New Jalpaiguri railway stations which contributes to around 60 per cent of the booking as they are looking for affordable and convenient option to explore relatively offbeat destinations such as Mirik, Kurseong, Darjeeling in Bengal as well as numerous destinations in Sikkim such as Gangtok, Pelting and Ravangla. 
The Zoomcar parking has been strategically chosen in the city with proximity to both the airport and the railway station.
Speaking on the launch, Greg Moran, CEO & Co-founder, Zoomcar, said, “With a lot of travelers coming to this part of the country, Siliguri will be key market for us. With our presence here, we have covered 28 metro and non-metro cities across India. The adoption in our existing markets has been overwhelming, and we expect a similar path of growth and acceptance in the new markets that we are launching. ' 
' In Siliguri, we are bringing gambit of our services in the city where majority of tourists also come from nearby destinations Kolkata and Guwahati. Our average fleet utility is more than 60%. We see an enormous potential in the city and can easily envision it becoming a 50-car market for us, within next 6 months. We are already having about 5000 registered users in Siliguri, ' he added.
Zoomcar will be looking to collaborate with local tourism board which will further enhance a better opportunity for locals and travellers. 
The North Bengal Hills provide a lot of opportunity for Tea Tourism along with lot of upcoming adventure sport activities. 
The existing customer base of Zoomcar being very young with 80 per cent users being below 25 would be looking forward to these unique experiences. 
The Tourism Department has announced a separate focus on developing Home Stays in the region which is another natural avenue of collaboration for Zoomcar as public transport is challenging to develop in hilly regions and self-drive providing a simple and convenient solution. 
Users can book vehicles starting as low as INR 70/hour inclusive of fuel for a 5 Km/hour fuel package or choose from more flexible options of 10 and 20 Km/hour for self-drive renting on an hourly, weekly and monthly basis. UNI
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Hello Jammu News at 12:37:00 PM 0


Siliguri, Dec 14: Five members of a family, including two children and as many women, were killed today when their car was hit by a dumper truck in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district, police said.
The toll might go up as some more passengers other than the deceased, were taken to a local hospital.
The victims were returning home early this morning after attending a wedding ceremony last night.
The tragedy happened on a NH at Torolpara and the victims were in such a state that they could not be recognised and the car almost turned to a mangled tin sheet. UNI
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Hello Jammu News at 4:52:00 PM 0

Siliguri, Nov 11: BJP's West Bengal unit president Dilip Ghosh today said new entrant Mukul Roy would campaign for the saffron brigade in poll bound Gujarat before starting electioneering for Bengal's  panchayat polls, scheduled for next year.
Mr Ghosh, who arrived here for party's organisational matters and to address a few open rallies, said Mr Roy is scheduled to fly to New Delhi before going to Gujarat for electioneering. Interestingly, Mr Roy, who held the number 2 position after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress, recently joined the BJP under the patronage of Amit Shah in New Delhi, has not yet been given any party post so far. However, BJP state president Dilip Ghosh in a first open rally in Kolkata yesterday, since Roy joined the party, told the workers that Roy is the coach of the state unit. Mr Roy in his first media conference early this week had called Mr Ghosh as captain of his team. The BJP president said the party will decide the distribution of team of workers to campaign across the state for panchayat polls. The BJP has aimed at wresting power from ruling TMC in panchayet first and then the state legislative assembly in 2021 elections.  UNI
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Hello Jammu News at 1:43:00 PM 0

Siliguri, Nov 2: The Bengal Safari Park on the outskirts of Siliguri has now become 
home to a pair of two Asiatic Himalayan black bears, named Jennifer and Dhruv.
The bears were brought from Darjeeling. One of them is eight years old while the 
other is 17, a forest official today said.
At present, both the bears are caged. Their diet has been enriched with the necessary 
nutrients and many fans have also been installed to ensure that their surroundings 
maintain a cool room temperature.
It is being expected that the bear safari would commence at the park from this year 
itself. The bears will be released into the forests after caring for them in the cage for a 
few days, the official added. UNI
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Hello Jammu News at 12:36:00 PM 0

Siliguri, Nov 2: The North Bengal State Transport Corporation (NBSTC) will soon launch 
a mobile app through which people across the state will be able to book bus tickets for 
long-distance buses to go anywhere in north Bengal.
More than 500 buses are operational under NBSTC. Cooch Behar-Kolkata and 
Siliguri-Kolkata are some of the popular routes for which demand is high most of the year, a 
NBSTC official today said.
"Webel, a private company, is working towards developing this app," said the NBSTC 
official.
He said the app would be specially useful for students, who want to travel to and from 
north Bengal on weekends and avoid harassment of ticket booking.
NBSTC is also working on updating its website. The updated website will now include 
details of the popular tourist destinations across north Bengal and their route of travel, the 
official added. UNI
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Hello Jammu News at 3:36:00 PM 0

Siliguri, Oct 30: An SSB jawan on way to home in Rajasthan has been arrested for possessing 60 bullets of automatic gun, minutes before boarding a private aircraft at the Bagdogra airport in West Bengal, airport director Rakeshranjan Sahay said today. Sashastra Seema Bal's jawan Ravinder was caught with live bullets while trying to board onto Go Air aircraft, bound for New Delhi on Sunday evening. The officials of Go Air caught Ravinder during security check and later handed over to Bagdogra police for further probe and production into the court of law. The arrested SSB jawan was posted at Katihar of 12 Battalion was proceeding home on vacation. Police said they would produce the arrested jawan before a court today. Investigations are on to find from where he sourced so many bullets of automatic gun without any authorised document. UNI
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Hello Jammu News at 1:10:00 PM 0

Kolkata, Oct 30: After the immense success of the Bengal Safari Park near Siliguri, the West Bengal Government has now planned to launch a leopard safari at Khairbari Eco Park, adjoining the Jaldapara forest in Madarihat. The safari is going to take place in a 23-acre area. The area has already been identified. Only the permission of the Central Zoo Authority is awaited, which is expected soon. As of now there are eight leopards and a royal Bengal tiger at Khairbari Eco Park. According to an officer of the Forest Department, which is implementing the project, one of the ideas behind creating the leopard safari is attracting visitors to north Bengal during the rainy season, when the core jungle areas remain shut. According to sources in the Forest Department, there are plans to offer wildlife attractions in more areas in north Bengal. UNI
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Hello Jammu News at 5:28:00 PM 0

Darjeeling/Siliguri, Oct 26: Kalimpong district and parts of Darjeeling town today wore a deserted look to mourn the custodial death of GJM councillor Barun Bhujel in a government-run hospital in Kolkata on Wednesday as BJP president Dilip Ghosh reiterated his demand for a CBI probe both into the death of Bhujel and the killing of West Bengal police sub-inspector Amitabh Mallick at Patlebas area on October 13. " We want Gorkhaland, Barun Bhujel amar rahe and Bimal Gurung zindabad, " rent the air as the pro-Gorkhaland supporters shouted slogans while offering khada ( traditional scurf) and flowers on the mortal of Barun Bhujel, whose body was driven to an ambulance on way to his home at Kalimpong. Barun Bhujel, a councillor of the Kalimpong municipality, and arrested on June 15/16 for alleged arson, died at SSKM hospital on Wednesday. The mourners wearing black badges hoisted black flag atop their houses to condole the death of Barun Bhujel, who was the councillor of Ward No 16 of the Kalimpong municipality. As the ambulance carrying Barun Bhujel body entered Kalijhora, the local people offered khada and flowers while others shouted slogans “Barun Bhujel Amar Rahos”. UNI
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Siliguri, Oct 12: The SSB guarding India's border with Bhutan has apprehended a poacher, indentified as Gopal Tamang- and seized two pieces of horns of Deer from Mangalbari under Jaigaon block of Alipurduar district. On a tip off, the SSB of 53 Battalion of Shimlabari in a joint operation with the forest officials seized two horns of Deer weighing 2 kgs from Manglabari (Jaigaon) and apprehended Gopal Thapa of Jaigaon around last night, CO Arvind Kumar said today. The apprehended person with seized items handed over to Forest Range office Hamiltonganj, added Mr Kumar. UNI
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Hello Jammu News at 2:04:00 PM 0

Siliguri/Darjeeling Sep 13: The hills is gradually limping back to normal with two government buses carrying passengers today heading for uphill Darjeeling town from Siliguri, almost after three months of suspension of services, a day after yesterday's second round bipartite talk between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the political parties operating in the hills, which stressed on restoration of normalcy. While two NBSTC ( North Bengal State Transport Corporation ) buses left this commercial town of Siliguri to traverse around 70 km uphill roads via Kursegong and are expected to return by evening with commuters, reports reaching here said the NBSTC buses were also plying at Mirik and Kalimpong. Sources said efforts were on with proper security arrangement to reopen some educational institutions at Mirik, which is comparatively returning to normal for the past few days. Immediately after the 90-minute all-party meet at Uttarkanya on Tuesday afternoon, Ms Banerjee announced that the government was keen on restoration of the public distribution system and urged all stake holders help the administration to bring peace and sanity in the hills, crippled for the past over three months following indefinite shutdown by the GJM (Gorkha Janmukti Morcha) demanding statehood for Gorkhas. Ms Banerjee told the meeting clearly that Darjeeling hills are part and parcel of West Bengal and it will remain so , but her government was for a permanent solution for Gorkhas and sought their suggestions. Meanwhile, GJM president Bimal Gurung, evading arrest, said from an undisclosed location that " not a single word was spoken regarding Gorkhaland in the all-party meeting " and threatened to launch " Janta Curfew ' to protest police atrocities against rallies in support of Gorkhaland demand. " Bandh not called by me, it was called by Binay Tamang, he has to clarify regarding this to people. I will call off the bandh only after tri-partite meeting for Gorkhaland starts," Mr Gurung said. " We want tri-partite talks at political level. We have our MP, MLAs. I am not in favour of calling off bandh, ' he stated. JAP president Dr Harka Bahadur Chhetri said, " We have requested Ms Banerjee to clarify her stand on Gorkhaland issue and we have also clarified from our side. " UNI
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Hello Jammu News at 2:23:00 PM 0


Kolkata/Siliguri, Aug 19 : Restoration efforts to resume train services between Howrah-Sealdah to NJP ( north Bengal ) and further northeastern states of the country received fresh jolt when a link bridge near-Bengal-Bihar border connecting the northeast states collapsed, even as flood situation in seven northers districts of Bengal remained unchanged today affecting some 20 lakh people with 51 death so far, official sources said. Northeast Frontier Railway's senior area manager at NJP station Partha Sarathi Seal told that a link bridge between Telta and Sudhani in the border areas Bihar and Bengal collapsed severing connection to landlocked north eastern states of the country. " We can not say when the link could be restored may be 6/7 days or more depending on weather and position of the affected area, Mr Seal said. The Railway Board, which had ordered all the zonal railways not to venture before August 20, but the fresh report of link bridge collapse would further delay the resumption of train services. Only a train from Guwahati to Dalkhola and back was running daily in slow pace to evacuate people. With loco services have been suspended beyond Malda station for past one week due to flooding in major parts of north Bengal, and neighbouring Bihar, more than 20 lakh people have been affected with lakh of homeless due to flooding of their villages. With three more death in past 24 hours, altogether 51 people have died in flood related accidents in seven districts of north Bengal. With sporadic rains the situation also worsen in South and North Dinajpur, Malda as hundreds of thousands people stranded in waist to chest deep water. Even people could be seen taking shelter in tree branches, which are not safe from poisonous snakes and other dangerous insects. With roads, rail tracks and highways under the water in miles after miles, people were seen taking sick people on bullock carts and makeshift boats to nearest public health facilities. The rations and relief were also not adequate for the affected people and looting of cooked food was also reported by the hungry people. North Dinajpur SP Shayam Singh, escorted by his security men in thigh deep water, was seen distributing dry foods among the hungry people at Ital village in Raijunge. He said they have been distributing relief to the people and there was no dearth of food to be distributed in the region. However, the hungry people alleged that they have been without food for days with no dry place to live in. They said even the roof top of tilled home was unsafe and many of them were forced to live on the tree branches along with snakes and insects. The West Bengal government has mobilised its resources to rescue the stranded people to safer places. The transport department gradually increasing its fleet of passenger buses to Siliguri and Cooch Behar from Kolkata and Malda. UNI

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