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Farm worker killed at meet over wages-Indranil Sarkar

-The Telegraph Burdwan: A 65-year-old labourer was allegedly beaten to death by a group of farmers in Burdwan when a meeting to discuss the workers’ demand for a revision of daily wages escalated into a clash. Radhanath Soren, who is also a CPM worker, was taken to Jamalpur health centre where he was pronounced dead. Over 100 farm labourers in Nabagram have for the past three days refused to cultivate the fields at...

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Burdwan: 16 farmer suicides in one year despite bumper rice crop-Priyanka Gupta

-IBN Burdwan: Burdwan may be the Rice Bowl of Bengal. However, its farmers are committing suicide. Here, rice is not a source of prosperity but of anguish. Spiralling debt has reportedly driven 16 farmers here to commit suicide in the past one year. Fifty-four-year-old Amiya Saha was one such farmer. The memories haunt his wife, but what hurts more is the continued government denials that something is amiss here. Says Jayanta Saha, a...

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CM admits land clog in industry-Arnab Ganguly

Mamata Banerjee today said private investors “are staying away from Bengal because land is not available for them”. However, she laid stress on the importance of public sector projects — the state has attracted some — saying “public sector investment is also investment”. The chief minister, whose government’s hands-off policy on land acquisition has so far acted as a deterrent for private industry, said at a railway programme in Hooghly’s Dankuni: “The...

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Dairy bleeds government-Indranil Sarkar

Burdwan, April 25: The cash-strapped government has been spending almost Rs 1 crore annually on a state-owned dairy in Burdwan lying defunct for the past four years. The 62 employees at Burdwan Dugdhagar have been drawing their salaries with virtually no work though the Trinamul government is working on a plan to hand over the unit to another state-owned milk producing unit. An official said the Burdwan dairy produced 20,000 litres of...

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CBI cracks racket of fake I-T returns, I-T refunds-Rahul Tripathi

In what the CBI says could be the “tip of an iceberg”, the agency has found at least 1,100 cases of allegedly fraudulent refund checks issued by the Income Tax department that has resulted in the illegal withdrawal of more than Rs 6 crore over the last three months. The CBI has arrested two persons, including an accountant: Pankaj Kumar Gupta and Amit Kumar Sharma. Both, allegedly in league with IT...

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