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	::PeaceJournalism.com - The Peace Media Research Center's e-magazine::
		Traditionally, the three districts of Bankura, Purulia and Medinipur have been the worst affected in Naxalite violence, especially the Jhalda, Bundwan and Jaipur areas in Purulia District; the Ranibundh, Raipur, Sarenga and Simlapal areas in Bankura District; and the Belpahari, Lalgarh, Banspahari and Khejuri areas in Medinipur District.
		In Bankura district, two district-level leaders, Raghunath Murmu and Bablu Mudi, were shot dead by the Naxalites at Majgeria under Barikul police station.
		Within an hour of the Bankura incident, another CPI-M activist, Mahendra Mahato, was shot dead in the adjoining Purulia district by the Maoists.
	peacejournalism.com /ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=4096 (1190 words)

	West Bengal Tourism - Heritages of Bengal - Bankura
		Bankura is a district to the north of the Dhaleswari (Dhalkisor) river.
		A district with high percentage of tribal population, Bankura is famous for music, art (the famous terracotta Bankura horse) and culture.
		Situated at a major Grand Trunk Road and rail junction, the district is an agricultural distributing centre.
	www.wbtourism.com /heritage/bankura.htm (179 words)

	Temples And Legends Of Bengal - Bankura ( Page 1)]
		It is significant that Bankura district has a predominance of the Santals and the so-called low castes but essentially martial communities of the Doms and the Bauris.
		Even the history of the temples in the district of Bankura cannot do without a reference to these so-called lower castes of the district.
		The temples of Bankura district have recently been highlighted in a number of articles and books in the Bengali Press.2
	www.hindubooks.org /temples/bengal/bankura/page1.htm (312 words)

	The Hindu : Elephant overturns vehicle, 6 injured
		They have been using the route since 1987, but for the past three years have been heading deeper into Bankura district towards its northern fringes, plundering crop-lands when under threat from people.
		The Bankura forest is a favourite haunt of elephants which travel nearly 100 km from their main habitat — the Dolma forest in adjoining Jharkhand — in search of paddy and water in West Bengal.
		According to a recent census, there are about 23 "resident" elephants in the forests of Purulia, Midnapore West and Bankura in south Bengal.
	www.hindu.com /2003/12/02/stories/2003120203891300.htm (276 words)

	Planning with software
		Rather, it wants the responses from Bankura and Kolar to be used by district committees, villages and community groups to formulate their own approaches to rural development.
		In the 22 blocks of Bankura district, the GRAM-GIS expertise has been in use since November 1996 in areas such as water conservation, energy management, land use planning and infrastructure development.
		The Bankura project generated its data from national agencies, including the Survey of India, the National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organisation (NATMO), Kolkata, and the Census of India.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1821/18210840.htm (1358 words)

	CEHJ No.28 - Community Based Rehabilitation
		The endemicity rate of the disease in the districts of Bankura, Midnapore, Purulia, Birbhum and Burdwan under this division varieý from 10 to 12 per thousand of the population (the total population of this division is around 30 million).
		In 1996, two such eye camps were organised in the district of Bankura – one at The Leprosy Mission Home and Hospital, Bankura with the help of the Lions Club of Bankura and the other at the Peardoba Leprosy Colony, Peardoba, Bankura with the help of the Bankura district centre of St John Ambulance Association.
		Upgraded Department of Ophthalmology, B S Medical College, Bankura, West Bengal, India
	www.jceh.co.uk /journal/28_8.asp (839 words)

	Bankura district map, district map of Bankura, map of Bankura
		Bankura district map, district map of Bankura, map of Bankura
		West Bengal >> Districts >> Bankura District Map
		Disclaimer : All efforts have been made to make this image accurate.
	www.mapsofindia.com /maps/westbengal/districts/bankura.htm (46 words)

	West Bengal Bankura District
		Bankura : A district with high percentage of Tribal population.
		Bankura lies on a densely populated alluvial plain.
		As a major Grand Trunk Road and rail junction, Bankura is an agricultural distributing centre.
	www.wb.nic.in /dist/bankura.html (174 words)

	WEST BENGAL: BANKURA BARDDHAMAN PURULIA
		Bankura is the headquarters of Bankura district and lies just north of the Dhaleshwari river.
		Bankura is famous for its handicrafts especially the Bankura horse.
		Constituted a municipality in 1869, Bankura has several educational institutes including a medical college and an engineering college.
	www.bengalweb.com /city/wbencit2.html (68 words)

	national.htm
		The PWG’s area of influence is mostly in Garbeta of Midnapore district and in adjoining blocks of Bankura.
		Officials are so scared of Miss X that poll personnel of 100 booths in Midnapore, 70 in Bankura and 30 in Purulia will reach their destinations only on the morning of May 10, and not a day earlier as is the rule, for fear of being kidnapped by the women’s brigade.
		Miss X is the latest leader of tribals to have sent shivers down the police administration in Bengal’s badlands, virtually running a parallel government in Midnapore’s Kankrajhore region adjoining Bankura and Purulia.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1010508/national.htm (4567 words)

	IMC India - SUCI Bandh paralyses life in Bengal
		Bankura police arrested 35 SUCI activists, including district secretary, Mr Joydev Pal.
		Mr Arup Chakraborty, executive of the Bankura Bar Association alleged: “Mr Banerjee was arrested only because he is a SUCI activist.
		The bandh was total in Burdwan, Bankura and Krishnagar, but got a lukewarm reception in Hooghly.
	india.indymedia.org /en/2003/08/6818.shtml (623 words)

	Yogananda Rediscovered - Yogananda's trip to Europe & India - Richard Wright: Giri Bala
		After a lavish meal at Soshi's family house in this old small town, we set out for Biur, in the depths of the Bankura District, to fulfill a pilgrimage to visit Giri Bala, who is said to have fasted for many years.
		On and on we paced over this dry, suntortured area (luckily we were blessed with a breeze cooled by yesterday's clouds.) Finally we arrived at Bankura.
		Our way led out into plains, with baked rice fields suggesting the poverty of the people, and still these under-nourished natives are obliged to work endlessly from dawn to dusk, yet perhaps a bit leisurely or lazily.
	www.yoganandarediscovered.com /jaitruth/YtripRGB.html (1396 words)

	Excelsior... Nation
		This impoverished family in the village of Kuludihi in West Bengal& Bankura district is in a state of mourning.
		Embattled by the twin scourges of poverty and deprivation, a Presidential remission of death sentence for Dhananjoy Chatterjee was the last straw his family members had been clutching onto desperately.
		Fomer Union Minister of State P K Thungon today failed to appear before a Delhi court in a case of corruption registered by CBI....
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /web1/04aug06/national.htm (5966 words)

	Elephants kill three in Bankura district : HindustanTimes.com
		Wild elephants in Bankura district have killed three persons, including a child, since Sunday, forest department sources said.
		Elephants kill three in Bankura district : HindustanTimes.com
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1373990,000900030001.htm (197 words)

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		(Dr. Das's notes: Bankura is a district town of West Bengal State of India.
		Source: The Statesman, India 1 Sep 2002 Mystery fever in Bankura -------------------------- An unknown fever has struck in 2 Bankura villages affecting 1000 residents in the past 3 days, medical experts supervising villages under Simlapal police station, said.
		Residents of Laxmi Sagar and Alkadhara reported high fever with nausea, DM (Bankura) Mr.
	www.promedmail.org /pls/askus/f?p=2400:1001:354816::NO::F2400_P1001_BACK_PAGE,F2400_P1001_PUB_MAIL_ID:1010,19211 (311 words)

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