‘Correction of a historical anomaly’: Amit Malviya defends renaming of Suhrawardy Avenue in Kolkata
"The broader Suhrawardy family’s political choices similarly reflected an alignment with Pakistan rather than India," Malviya claimed.
"The broader Suhrawardy family’s political choices similarly reflected an alignment with Pakistan rather than India," Malviya claimed.
Durgapur has five industrial estates managed by the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation accommodating many private factories, but no electronics equipment manufacturing plant as yet.
The state government has highlighted in its budget that the existing ports of Haldia and Kolkata suffer from low draft and high turnaround time and hence there is a need to construct a strategic deep-sea port.
In a direction aimed at safeguarding women's safety in West Bengal, the budget has also proposed setting up at least one women police station in every sub-division and Nari Sahayata Desk in every police station.
The announcement assumes significance as the BJP government has repeatedly asserted that dismantling extortion networks and what it calls the prevailing “threat culture” would be one of its principal governance priorities.
Banerjee accused the BJP of branding Bengali-speaking people as infiltrators while claiming the party itself was the “biggest infiltrator” during elections.
The agency’s preliminary report, likely to be submitted to the Supreme Court next week, will assess whether public anger over voter name deletions triggered the protest or if the situation was deliberately orchestrated to disrupt the judicial adjudication process.
The ECI’s order makes it clear that the withdrawal of security cover will apply across political affiliations. Leaders who are out on bail or parole, those with pending criminal cases, or individuals with a history of criminal offences have been deemed ineligible for state protection.
The city police today summoned two Trinamul Congress councillors Santiranjan Kundu and Sachin Singh of Wards 32 and 36 respectively of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation allegedly in connection with a fracas and illegal assembly in front of the state CEO office on Strand road on Wednesday and Thursday.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday issued a notification detailing the process of filing prayer for inclusion and exclusion of names on the electoral rolls at the tribunals set up as part of the Special intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.
