"If we look at the success rates, we may notice that the medium of instruction is not an important factor in learning," West Bengal Education Minister Dipak Barman said in a freewheeling conversation with The Statesman.
The NIA made these claims recently while filing a charge sheet against 11 individuals in a case at its Special Court in Guwahati.
The complaint mentioned that around 200 feet of the playground's boundary wall, along with an iron gate and grills belonging to the civic body, were demolished.
Sources said the BJP plans to gather signatures after the second phase of the Budget session begins on July 17 and subsequently file nominations.
While the petition initially referred to three accounts, the Kalighat camp claimed that a total of eight accounts had now been frozen.
Trinamul Congress MLA Sabitri Mitra had a narrow escape late on Saturday night when an unidentified vehicle rammed into her car twice while she was returning home from Manikchak.
For the first time in the history of Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC), the Asansol cyber police station has cracked a digital arrest case and has arrested nine persons of an international racket.
At a time, when the skyrocketing airfares for the Mahakumbh in Prayagraj have sparked a nationwide uproar, Air India Express has announced its "Payday Sale", offering travellers from Kolkata and other metropolitan city airports an opportunity to book budget-friendly flights, with fares starting as low as Rs 1,535.
Corporate houses in the city seem to have lapped up the Union Budget 2025. Harshavardhan Neotia, chairman Ambuja Neotia Group, for instance, said, “The budget proposals of finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has provided the vision of a new India story, with a governance that is light touch and trusting, a regulatory regime that is encouraging for industry and policies that are focused on job creation.
Mr Mitra, while opposing the Union Budget alleged that the Union government has announced 100 per cent FDI (foreign direct investment) in insurance sector but simultaneously it has not stopped collecting 18 per cent GST.
