Jhargram (India)

Type: City

Name: Jhargram (India)

Country: India

Latitude: 22.450001

Longitude: 86.980003

population: 57,802

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Pradeep Kumar

From U.S.A to Urchins of Kharagpur - IIT woman is transforming lives

Kharagpur: The gleeful cacophony of greetings from a large group of children across a hedged compound in the far corner of IIT Kharagpur may take you by a little surprise. The life within the confines of Disha Seema Centre is an even more surprising story ... [Published Daily Bhaskar - May 09 2013]

Entities: Pradeep Kumar, Jhargram (India), India

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 1 reports

MPS Greenery seeks police protection

MPS Greenery Developers Ltd, a firm that ran so-called collective investment schemes (CIS) in defiance of the market regulator's cease-and-desist orders, is trying to fight off a run on its money by seeking police protection for its offices.The company ... [Published Individual.com - May 04 2013]

Entities: Anisur Rahaman, Jhargram (India), Tamluk (India), Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), Securities & Exchange Board of India

First reported Feb 22 2013 - Updated Feb 22 2013 - 1 reports

Forest fires

Kindling of an Insurrection: Notes from Junglemahals By Chandan Sinha, Routledge, Rs 850 Mani Tudus hut is made of red mud walls and has a palm-frond roof supported by a falling bamboo frame. Years of relentless beating by the sun and the rains has eroded ... [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Feb 22 2013]

Entities: Chandan Sinha, Forest Fires, Maoist, India, Jhargram (India)

First reported Dec 05 2012 - Updated Dec 05 2012 - 1 reports

Frame-up tricks in a colonial bag

Two colonial-era laws allow police to frame people by producing dubious witness statements at will and are a key reason for Indias large undertrial population, lawyers and former judges say. Here, the police investigate crimes by nabbing the suspects ... [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Dec 05 2012]

Entities: Bail, Witness, Custody, Maoist, Criminal

Quotes

"(Chief minister) Mamata Banerjee is trying to build a political issue to cover up a scam" Manna said, referring to the Saradha Group, which had close links with several key Trinamool Congress leaders

MPS Greenery seeks police protection [Published Individual.com - May 04 2013]

"People are asking me to release them (AMRI directors). Many are pressurising the government for their release. But law will not listen to me. All are equal before the law, if they have committed a crime, they will be punished. Law will take its own course" said Banerjee, addressing people at Jhargram in the district

Law will take its course in AMRI directors case: Mamata [Published Topnews.in - Jan 12 2012]

"We don't know who kept those things but today afternoon when villagers came here to take bath they found something inside and then police along with paramilitary force came here and seized those things" said Rabindranath Mahato, a villager

Maoists landmines seized in West Bengal [Published Topnews.in - Dec 27 2011]

"Twenty one percent votes have been cast till 9 a. m. The polling percentage is 19 in Purulia, 23 in West Midnapore and 21 in Bankura" Additional Chief Electoral Officer N K Sahana told IANS

Tight security, long voter queues in Maoist [Published Topnews.in - May 10 2011]