The foundation stone for the second phase of Raghunathpur thermal power plant of Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) was laid by Union power minister Jyotiraditya Scindhia at Dumdumi of Raghunathpur in Purulia district on Sunday.

The main accused in the polytechnic college gangrape case has been arrested. The detective department of Asansol-Durgapur police commissionerate nabbed Soumyo Mondal from Dhanbad railway station in neighbouring Jharkhand province.

The much-maligned police did a noble deed in Purulia for which it deserves a pat on the back. Following the personal initiative of the officer-in-charge of Neturia police station in Purulia, Apurba Nag, dozens of children of impoverished families also got an opportunity to celebrate Durga Puja with joy and exuberance.

Jamuria near Asansol turned into a battle ground as Trinamul Congress and CPI(M) supporters clashed over filing of nomination for the school managing committee of Rajpur Nandih High School. Three CPI(M) supporters were injured in the incident. A huge police force struggled to bring the situation under control.

In night-long raids, the police on Monday arrested 10 persons for their alleged involvement in the gangrape of a married woman near City Centre in Durgapur. They were produced in the court and sent to 14 days’ judicial custody by additional chief judicial magistrate Kaustab Mukherjee.

A woman was gangraped in the heart of Durgapur city in Burdwan district. The police has started an investigation but so far no one has been arrested. The incident once again raised questions about the safety of woman in the Asansol-Durgapur industrial belt.

In a freak accident, a packed passenger bus was swept away by flash floods of a swollen river in Bankura district, leaving two people dead and many missing.

State education minister Bratya Basu on Monday inspected the land earmarked in Asansol for the proposed Nazrul University. The 29.55 acre plot of land is located at Kalla More in Asansol North police station area. It is in close proximity to National Highway 2.

Unable to bear constant eve-teasing and the humiliation of her father in a Salishi Sabha, a 13-year-old girl committed suicide by setting herself ablaze. She was a student of Class 8 of Rambandh Adarsh Vidyalaya in Burnpur in Asansol.

Mob fury erupted in Asansol’s Burnpur on Wednesday following the murder of a small girl. Morning walkers discovered seven-year-old Pushpa Thakur’s body in a drain not far from Burnpur Primary Girls’ School where she was a student of Class 2.