In a four-page letter to PM Modi, the CM claimed that five million people in Bengal have been affected by the floods and requested him to immediately sanction and release central funds

Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee has blamed the Centre for floods in West Bengal's lower Damodar region alleging that the devastation was caused after 5 lakh cusecs of water was released from Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) - controlled dams – a scale of hitherto unwitnessed.

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Friday wrote to PM Narendra Modi alleging that five lakh cusecs of water released by the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) have caused floods in the state. She warned that if the “unilateral approach continues”,

In the letter to Modi, Banerjee requests immediate release of central funds to address the widespread devastation caused by the floods

Mamata claimed the DVC and Jharkhand's Tenughat and Panchet dams have saved their own state and released water into Bengal.

Blaming Jharkhand for unbridled release of water through its DVC damns, CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said she was shutting Bengal's borders with the state for three days. The police reportedly stopped the entry of cargo vehicles travelling from Jharkhand to West Bengal at Duburdih Check Post near Maithon from around 7 pm on Thursday evening,

Kolkata: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday had written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the flood like situation at various districts in South Bengal. Calling it a ‘man made flood’,

Kolkata: West Bengal, Governor CV Ananda Bose on Friday shot off a letter to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee advising her to carry out her duties following flood in the state and not to blame the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) for the inundation,

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee threatens to cut ties with DVC over floods, risking power supply in southern Bengal.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying that her state would sever all ties with the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) for "unilaterally releasing water",

In a four-page letter to Modi, Banerjee claimed that five million people in Bengal have been affected by the floods and requested him to immediately sanction and release central funds.