A top politician in eastern India today blamed authorities in a neighbouring state for causing a flooding crisis by opening dams after 26 people were killed and 250,000 others were forced to relocate.

Long queues of goods-laden trucks were seen along the Jharkhand border after the West Bengal Police restricted vehicle movement to and from the state from Thursday evening following floods that inundated southern districts of Bengal.

RANCHI: The West Bengal government sealed the Dibrugarh check post on Thursday evening, leading to queuing up of heavy vehicles from Barakar Bridge to Maithon at NH-19 from Jharkhand. According to the information,

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ordered the sealing of the interstate border and stated that the Bengal-Jharkhand border would be closed for three days.

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,

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has ordered the sealing of the inter-state border with Jharkhand amid a severe flood crisis in her state. Banerjee accused the Damodar Valley Corporation (which operates a multipurpose river project in West Bengal and Jharkhand) of releasing five lakh cusecs of water over three days,

Mamata Banerjee blames DVC for 'man-made' floods in West Bengal, threatens to cut ties, and orders a three-day border closure with Jharkhand.In response to the crisis, Banerjee has taken

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday ordered to stop vehicle operations between Bengal and Jharkhand.

Trucks were seen lined up at Asansol border as Mamata Banerjee ordered the sealing of Jharkhand-Bengal land border.

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Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee accused Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) of flooding 11 south Bengal districts by releasing water from reservoirs, prompting her to seal the border with Jharkhand. This move led to a retaliatory threat from Jharkhand's JMM party to block goods trucks heading to Bengal,