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	West Bengal Purulia District
		Purulia, constituted a municipality in 1876, has four colleges affiliated with the University of Burdwan.
		Purulia is the headquarters of Purulia district and lies north of the Kasai river.
		Purulia is famous for its masked dance form known as the Chau.
	www.wb.nic.in /dist/puru.html (0 words)

	Synopsis: Legends of Karttikeya in Purulia Chhau (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In some cases these art forms are themselves a part of a ritual, or else the mere art expression is an eulogy of a deity and suffices to create a religious feeling in the artistes and the spectators.
		Purulia is a district in West Bengal near the border of Bihar.
		The war is between the gods and asuras as the tales are derived from the epics and the puranas.
	murugan.org /events/2001_synopses/agneswaran.htm (510 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Bengal
		Calcutta, Nov. 22: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today slammed the administration of Purulia, one of Bengal?s poorest districts, for its failure to improve the quality of life in the impoverished villages.
		Bhattacharjee said the district administration had failed to implement schemes undertaken for the 996 villages of Purulia identified among the poorest.
		Purulia, Birbhum, Murshidabad, Malda, North Dinajpur and South Dinajpur would be covered in the fist phase.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1051123/asp/bengal/story_5510832.asp (407 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Bengal
		Purulia, Dec. 25: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today asked the administration of backward districts, including Purulia, to visit villagers door to door, enquire about their needs and undertake development projects accordingly.
		He asked the district authorities to conserve rainwater in dams and reservoirs for irrigating drought-prone Purulia, which yields a single crop of paddy annually.
		Bhattacharjee said Purulia was crying for development on several fronts.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1051226/asp/bengal/story_5644934.asp (362 words)

	Purulia arms drop: Bleach may be released
		A decision on releasing Peter Bleach, convicted in the Purulia arms drop case, is likely soon.
		Bleach (51) is serving a life term in a Kolkata prison for dropping crates of missiles, rifles and rocket launchers in Purulia district of West Bengal on the night of December 17, 1995.
		When Purulia Armsdrop happended,the Congress was the ruling party under the leadership of P.V. Narsimharao.The BJP,the then Opposition party made a big hue and cry...
	www.rediff.com /news/2004/jan/30purulia.htm (306 words)

	Welcome to the Official Website of Purulia District
		From Purulia, one can go to Ajodhya Pahar spend a night in the hill surrounded by the forests.
		Ample of jungle animals can be seen in the evening when they come to drink water.
		The Purulia Pumped Storage Project can fl start from Zero to 900 MW within minutes and can cater hundreds of MW of load within seconds.
	www.purulia.gov.in (159 words)

	Temples And Legends Of Bengal - Pururlia - (Introduction) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The district of Purulia in Bengal was once a great centre of Jainism.1 The area of this district was the connecting link with Orissa and Bihar.
		The district Purulia was also the via media through which a close contact with Bihar was maintained.
		The tow of Purulia, which is headquarters of the district now, was also the headquarters of Manbhum district in Bihar.
	www.hindubooks.org /temples/bengal/purulia/index.htm (152 words)

	UNICEF India - Health
		Sumitraâs husband who works as a daily wage laborer in a small village in Purulia, one of the most backward districts of West Bengal, explains that his wife was registered at the health sub-centre and was prescribed Iron Folic Acid tablets which she used to take regularly.
		Rudolf Schwenk, the state representative for West Bengal cites the example of how UNICEF convinced the Purulia district administration to supply Magnesium Sulphate in the districts and blocks which had led to a decrease in maternal deaths in the district by almost 11% from 2002 to 2004.
		UNICEF also supported a series of training workshops for obstetricians, medical officers and nurses of Purulia District on standard management protocol for eclampsia using magnesium sulphate which is a cheap drug to arrest growing deaths due to eclampsia.
	www.unicef.org /india/health_1529.htm (821 words)

	Investigation: Purulia Arms Drop, Judge in the Dock
		They have been accused of fabricating the evidence that was used to convict the six foreign nationals to life imprisonment -- and draw the curtains on the Purulia case.
		Prahladka's petition alleges that one of the key pieces of evidence produced by the CBI is a briefcase that allegedly contained pictures of the Ananda Marg base in Purulia.
		This was used by the CBI to try and establish Purulia as the destination for the arms and link the armsdrop with the Ananda Margis.
	www.india-today.com /itoday/20000410/investigation.html (1558 words)

	Purulia arms drop: Bleach offers to testify in India
		It was on the night of Dec 17, 1995, that sophisticated arms and ammunition were dropped over Purulia from an AN-26 aircraft.
		According to reports, the Indian government has now agreed to the conditions and the ministry of external affairs is expected to shortly convey this to Denmark.
		Six other accused in the Purulia arms-drop case, five Latvian nationals and Peter Bleach, were granted remission of their sentence by the Indian president in 2000 and 2004 respectively and were subsequently released.
	news.webindia123.com /news/articles/India/20061011/476219.html (510 words)

	Purulia arms drop accused to be released - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Peter Bleach, key accused in the Purulia arms drop case, is likely to be released very soon Deputy PM L K Advani said after a meeting with British home minister David Blunkett.
		Peter Bleach, the British national accused in the 1995 Purulia arms air drop case in West Bengal and currently serving life sentence in a Kolkata jail, would be released soon, Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani announced on Friday.
		Bleach is one of the accused in the Purulia arms-drop case.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/jan312004/n3.asp (499 words)

	Puppetindia.com
		Once a string puppet group came to a remote village of Purulia district for performance and inspired Shambhu Mahato, a local resident, to open a group of string puppets, -- along with his friends Dhananjoy and Panchanan.
		Since Shambhu had no experience of making puppets and there was none in the village to help him, he tried out making string puppets from wood, plastic, tin, etc. While arms and fists were made from plastic glass, and upper limbs from rubber pipe, costumes came out from old sarees, with control by iron rods.
		From his use of Chhau masks, instead of tin-faces, a new type of puppet was born.
	puppetindia.com /news15.htm (941 words)

	Jamshedpur Diocese
		The district of East Singhbhum, Bokaro, Dhanbad and Purulia were part of the Archdiocese of Calcutta.
		Manbhum (now Purulia, Dhanbad and Bokaro districts) and Singhbhum (now East and West Singhbhum and Saraikela - Kharswan) were entrusted in the year 1947 to the care of American Jesuits of Maryland Province.
		The cosmopolitan towns of Jamshedpur, Purulia and Dhanbad have a floating population which comes for work from all the states of India.
	www.cbcisite.com /Jamshedpur.htm (438 words)

	Puppetindia.com
		Once a string puppet group came to a remote village of Purulia district for performance and inspired Shambhu Mahato, a local resident, to open a group of string puppets, -- along with his friends Dhananjoy and Panchanan.
		Since Shambhu had no experience of making puppets and there was none in the village to help him, he tried out making string puppets from wood, plastic, tin, etc. While arms and fists were made from plastic glass, and upper limbs from rubber pipe, costumes came out from old sarees, with control by iron rods.
		Shambhu Mahato’s troupe is the first Chhau puppet group in Purulia, whose members are all labourers in the field.
	www.puppetindia.com /news15.htm (941 words)

	PURULIA ARMS DROPPING CASE (Site not responding. Last check: )
		From the side of the prosecution referring to the witnesses as mentioned above examined from Purulia it has been contended that true it is that P.W.22 in course of his evidence in chief has stated that on that date in the night one helicopter was moving in the sky from west to east.
		But from the cross-examination of the aforesaid witness by accused Peter Bleach it has come out clearly that the witness could not see the moving article personally, as he has clearly stated that the aircraft was not visible during the darkness of the night, but simply saw flashing of the aircraft.
		Now a question arises as to whether the arms recovered in Purulia and the arms already recovered from the aircraft are the same and identical in nature or not.
	cbi.nic.in /Judgements/padc.htm (8233 words)

	Landmine found at Purulia in West Bengal : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A landmine suspected to have been planted by Maoists was found by police on Sunday at Madhupur village in West Bengal's Purulia district.
		Purulia's Superintendent of Police Ashok Kumar Prasad said the area had been cordoned off after the mine was detected early this morning.
		A bomb disposal squad from Kharagpur in East Midnapur district was sent to the area to detonate it.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1863748,000900030001.htm (185 words)

	Combating Torture
		A dozen armed policemen, said to be from Purulia district of West Bengal, barged into Shatuli Devi’s little home and started beating her with sticks and the butt of their guns, while demanding information about a person she claimed she hardly knew.
		Purulia police, on the other hand, say it was a joint operation.
		Police sources said the team from Purulia had come in search of one Narain Mahto, an accused in the murder of a landlord, Jagdish Tewary, in Baansgarh under the Jhalda police station of Purulia district.
	www.aitpn.org /Torture/ShatuliDevi.htm (431 words)

	Go To Purulia: Purulia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Purulia is a district of West-Bengalen, and is situated in the Far East.
		They live in 10 villages in Balarampur Block (an area of 290 villages) in the district Purulia.
		We want to stop this migration, which is also unwanted by the local population, by creating more possibilities in their own village.
	www.beringen.com /purulia/en/purulia.htm (261 words)

	Purulia arms dropping accused may be extradited to India
		The main accused in the 1995 Purulia arms dropping case may finally be extradited from Denmark to India.
		The union cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday decided to assure the government of Denmark that it would abide by international covenants and the treaty with Denmark, which guarantees that the man - Niels Holck Neilson alias Kim Davy - extradited from Denmark is not handed down death sentence.
		Kim Davy is a key suspect and is one of the six accused in the case.
	www.indiasnews.net /story/244603 (453 words)

	Zee News - Red alert sounded in Purulia district (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Purulia (WB), Dec 03: A red alert has been sounded all over Purulia district in the wake of last evening's landmine blasts at Duarsini, near Kuchia police camp, 90 km from Purulia town.
		SP of Purulia, Ashok Kumar Prasad, said in Purulia town today that security had been strengthened at Bandwan and areas bordering Jharkhand where landmine blasts killed 13 securitymen yesterday.
		At least six landmines were exploded by suspected Maoists on a barren land apparently to generate panic among police personnel and villagers of Purulia.
	www.zeenews.com /znnew/articles.asp?aid=339795&sid=REG (145 words)

	The Telegraph - Ranchi
		Ranchi, March 8: Three drug peddlers arrested by Ranchi police while they were selling marijuana to students of BIT Mesra have turned out to be members of an inter-state gang involved in the supply of illegal arms.
		The police claimed that the peddlers disclosed during interrogation that these arms were part of the consignment air-dropped on Purulia in December 1995.
		The Sadar police had arrested Chittaranjan Mahto, Taroni Mahto and Sukumar Das, all hailing from Purulia district in neighbouring West Bengal, on March 1 with 5 kg of marijuana from the Booti crossing.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050309/asp/ranchi/story_4470309.asp (377 words)

	Matha Forest Range Travelogue \| TrekEarth
		Jaina Bhagavati-Sutra of circa 5th century A.D. mentions that Purulia was one of the 16 Mahajanapadas and was a part of the country known as Vajra-bhumi in ancient times.
		By Regulation XVIIII of 1805, a Jungle Mahals district composed of 23 parganas and mahals including the present Purulia (known as 'Purulia' those days) was formed.
		Finally in 1956 Manbhum district was partitioned between Bihar and West Bengal under the States Reorganization Act and the Bihar and West Bengal (Tranfer of Territories) Act 1956 and the present district Purulia was born on 1st November, 1956.
	www.trekearth.com /trip.php?tid=1986&display=full (237 words)

	Purulia - Encyclopedia.com
		Purulia case convict may be transferred to U.K. jail
		Arms dropping at Purulia: Subid Ali denies involvement, THE INDEPENDENT
		British minister seeks release of Purulia case accused
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Purulia.html (240 words)

	Central Chronicle--Nation
		Purulia, May 12 A local court Friday sentenced a Forward Bloc MP Bir Singh Mahato and three others to 10 years rigorous imprisonment after convicting them in a rape case involving a housewife in Baghmundi in the district.
		The case was filed in the Purulia court in November 1982.
		Besides Mahato, a five-time MP from Purulia, three others - Tipu Kamar, Dhansingh Murmu and Budhu Murmu - were convicted under Sections 376 2G (gang rape) and 448 (house trespassing).
	www.centralchronicle.com /20060513/1305155.htm (197 words)

	The Statesman
		PUNCHA (Purulia), Nov. 9: The four-day golden jubilee celebration of Purulia’s Bangabhukti (inclusion in Bengal), held at Bhairabsthan Pakbira in Puncha block of Purulia district, 55 km from Purulia town, ended last week.
		The chief minister also spoke of the the quick progress of the Purulia pumped storage, a mega power project, at Bagmundi, 55 km from Purulia town.
		The folk tradition of Purulia was upheld in the four-day celebrations.
	www.thestatesman.net /page.arcview.php?date=2006-11-10&usrsess=1&clid=23&id=163656 (403 words)

	Amazon.com: Purulia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The hill Kharia of Purulia: A study on the impact of poverty on a hunting and gathering tribe (Memoir) by Dikshit Sinha (Unknown Binding - 1984)
		Observations on ethnobotany of Purulia, West Bengal by Sudhanshu Kumar Jain (Unknown Binding - 1966)
		Fossil vertebrates from the late quaternary deposits of Bankura, Burdwan, and Purulia districts, West Bengal (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India) by D. C Dassarma (Unknown Binding - 1982)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Purulia&index=blended&page=1 (794 words)

	Rescue operations in Purulia called off- News-Sections-TIMES NOW.tv (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It's a tragic scene at the flooded mine in Purulia district of West Bengal, as the Indian Army abandons rescue operations.
		A week ago about 25 miners went missing in this illegal underground mine of Guntikuri at Neturia in Purulia as the mine pit was flooded by the rain-fed Damodar river.
		Although no missing diary was lodged with the local police station, the villagers said that 25 to 30 persons had entered the mine for illegally tapping coal.
	www.timesnow.tv /articleshow/1873718.cms (227 words)

	January 12, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		However, the BJP-led government at the Centre is actually covering up the biggest incident of arms smuggling into the country, ie, the Purulia arms drop which was meant to destabilise the state government.
		The Purulia arms air dropping case was the first of its kind in the country’s history.
		Five years ago the air dropping of large-scale arms in Purulia district in West Bengal took place in December 1995.
	cpim.org /statement/2001/2001_jan_12_purulia.htm (335 words)

	Fresh rescue operations in Purulia mine fail - Sify.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Purulia: Fresh rescue attempts on Tuesday by the Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL) failed to make headway as water from the swollen river Damodar continued to rush into the abandoned mine at Gungtikuri in West Bengal's Purulia district.
		General Manager, Sodepur area of ECL K P Singh, who was at the spot on Monday and on Tuesday, said that dewatering pumps had been placed at the mouth of the pit but could not be operated as the water level inside was about 100 feet.
		Villagers of Khairikuri and Jamtara in neighbouring Jharkhand besides those in Asansol, Purulia and Burdwan in West Bengal, engaged in illegal mining, are trapped in the abandoned mine situated on a char (island) at the mouth of the rivers Barakar, Khudia and Damodar, 60 km from here.
	sify.com /news/fullstory.php?id=14266800 (269 words)

	Purulia Project Blog
		Shakuntala Hansda, a tribal woman from Juri, Purulia, is leading one of Juri's microfinance projects, in which she and other women make biodegrable plates from teak leaves, which they have successfully sold in local markets.
		They are eager to change their marginalized status with the support of the Purulia Microfinance Initiative, which has made significant contributions to the women groups' involved in the Initiative, with far-rearching effects on the Santhal tribal society of Purulia as a whole, helping to mobilize and unite these people.
		Active participation such as this is very empowering for people who have not had the opportunity to take an active role in the development processes of their communities.
	www.villageearth.org /pages/Projects/Purulia/puruliablog (1455 words)

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