Besides leading a sedentary lifestyle and eating junk food regularly, acute smoking and air pollution also triggers cardiovascular diseases, starting from heart attack, cardiac arrhythmia, hypertension to stroke.
Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has seized over 300 tonnes of illegal coal and seized five trucks at Churulia, in Jamuria police station area.
The convocation saga at Kalyani University took an unexpected turn as Governor Dr C V Ananda Bose, amidst protests and controversy, attended the 30th convocation as scheduled and delivered a speech before the students and scholars today.
Chief Secretary, Government of West Bengal, H K Dwivedi, today said that a new Airport will be coming up at Hasimara in the Dooars for the development of air connectivity with three districts Jalpaiguri, Alipurduar and Cooch Behar.
The Indian Society of Nephrology Conference (ISNCON) will be held in the city almost after a decade. The three-day conference from 14-17 December will witness the presence of 2,000 nephrologists across the country.
The Trinamool Congress leadership has asked all its elected MLAs in West Bengal to ensure that they reach Kolkata by July 17 afternoon, a day before the Presidential polls. Similar instructions have been sent to the party MPs from both Houses of Parliament who have opted to cast their votes at the West Bengal Assembly premises.
ED sources said that the agency officers probing the scam had on number of occasions come across the name of the state law minister, Moloy Ghatak.
Amid the ongoing debate over the use of certain words during Parliamentary proceedings, the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal has accused BJP legislators of using unparliamentary words against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team, probing the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) recruitment scam, on Thursday interrogated state Education Secretary, Manish Jain for around four hours.
The occasion was administering oath to the newly-elected office-bearers of Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA). But West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar chose it to flag the 'rampant corruption' in the accounting process of GTA and also insisted on regular audits to curb this corruption.
