Kurmi protest seeking ST status paralyses rail, road traffic in Bengal

Eighty-five trains were cancelled, and hundreds of vehicles remained stranded as different organisations of the Kurmi community continued their rail and road blockade in West Bengal's Paschim......

Kurmi stir for ST status hits train services in Bengal, J'khand, Odisha

Kurmis on Tuesday blocked railway tracks in various parts of eastern India demanding Scheduled Tribe status and inclusion of Kurmali language in the eighth schedule of the Constitution, affecting......

Kharagpur: Trains resume after bomb scare

Train services on the Kharagpur-Tatanagar section in West Bengal were briefly disrupted on Tuesday after a guard of a goods train heard an explosion-like sound between Gidni and Jhargram stations.......

WB on high alert ahead of Maoist bandh

All police stations and Central Reserve Police Force camps in the three Maoist-hit districts of West Bengal have been put on high alert and Railway Protection Force has been asked to keep vigil on......