If all goes as planned, Prime Minister Narendra Modi could give a green signal to at least three railway projects in West Bengal during his two-day visit to the state on 20 and 21 June.
The chief minister explained the rationale behind the exercise, saying while some wards have over 40,000 to 50,000 voters, the electorate count in some other wards is only around 8,000 to 10,000.
The Institute of Engineering & Management (IEM), Kolkata, and the University of Engineering & Management (UEM), in association with SMART Society USA, successfully concluded the 2026 edition of their flagship Study Abroad Program (SAP), International Internship Initiative, and the Smart Edge & Neuromorphic Systems Conference (SENSE-SG 2026) in Singapore.
The police had issued a third notice against Biswas requiring him to appear at the police station within 48 hours. Biswas had skipped the earlier two summons issued against him in connection with the 'Messi fiasco'.
The Asansol Dakshin MLA expressed suspicion about the timing of this entire political development within the TMC camp.
In order to help the voters of West Bengal to have a first-hand and detailed information about the polling booths where they will be supposed to caste their voters in the crucial state assembly elections scheduled next year, the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal has started the process of creating a virtual and compressive data base of such booths.
Before the crucial 2021 West Bengal Assembly polls scheduled next year, the Trinamool Congress will partially implement “one person, one post” police at the grassroots level leadership, a party insider aware of the development said.
Leader of the opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday, accused the West Bengal Police of unnecessarily obstructing a peaceful rally of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) earlier in the day to commemorate the completion of 100 years of national service.
On the occasion of Mahalaya on Sunday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurated multiple Durga Puja Pandals in the state, some physically and others virtually, and then stressed that only in an ambience of unity, peace can prevail in the country.
Heavy rain accompanied by thunderstorms drenched large parts of Kolkata and its suburbs on Saturday, inundating several roads and raising concerns ahead of Durga Puja celebrations.
