Midnapur

Midnapur, May 26, 2009: - Five persons including two women & two children died on the spot & forty people were injured in a terrible accident at Salboni at about 4 pm. last afternoon.

A Street Accident Claims Five Lives 2009

Displaced and starved by devastating floods in both East and West Midnapur Districts of West Bengal, elephants are circling the relief camps set up for flood-ravaged people in those two districts ostensibly in search of food.

Wild Elephants Invade Flood Relief Camps 2008

The elephant population in Midnapur district is considered to be of high conservation importance.

Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests 2008

Let us take a look at the ongoing development in Bengal districts like Midnapur, Bankura, Purulia, Bardhaman, Birbhum, Nadia, Murshidabad, etc. and see the real role of the CPIM.

A Maoist critique of the CPI(Marxist) Abhay N 2007

Konar forgot to add that the worst sufferers were the underprivileged communities in the backward tribal belt of Bankura, Midnapur and

Archive 2006-08-01 Abhay N 2006

In Purulia, Bankura and Midnapur, the CPM is on the run.

Archive 2006-08-01 Abhay N 2006

It is bounded on the N. and E. by Burdwan district; on the S. by Midnapur district; and on the W. by Manbhum district.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

An interesting observation belonging to the latter class was made by an engineer near Midnapur, a place which lies just within the area of damage.

A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899

The Indian earthquake, for instance, seemed to last about three or four minutes at Midnapur; but the movements of the bubble of a level showed that the ground continued to oscillate for at least five minutes longer (p. 280).

A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899

Even as far as Midnapur, the ground was "distinctly billowy," and at Allahabad a series of waves was observed to cross the ground from south-south-west to north-north-east.

A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899