West Bengal will have a sports university and an international standard stadium while every Assembly constituency is set to house a mini-indoor stadium, the state Budget announced today.
The party offices of Trinamul Congress and its trade union wing, the INTTUC, and students wing the TMCP, which were set up illegally, encroaching upon Central and state government lands, have been demolished after the BJP government came to power.
MLA Arup Roy has been elected as the new chairperson of the "real" TMC.
Merchants’ Chamber of Commerce & Industry president Priti A Sureka said, "If implemented effectively, such a measure will come as a major relief to the business community and help improve investor confidence in the state.”
Suvendu Adhikari alleged that corruption, including the "cut-money culture" and extortion, had adversely affected industrialisation in West Bengal over the years.
In a twist that has left political circles abuzz, fiery Trinamul Congress MP Mahua Moitra has reportedly tied the knot with seasoned Biju Janata Dal (Mahua Moitra) leader Pinaki Misra, in a private ceremony held in Germany, away from the public eye and the political spotlight.
The central government has approved the establishment of a new government medical college and hospital within the ESI Hospital premises in Asansol, West Bengal.
Women’s College Calcutta, a premiere educational institution observed the World Environment Day with sixteen programmes.
Trinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, one of the members of an all-party MPs delegation that visited various countries, will not attend a meeting of the ministry of external affairs, convened on Thursday.
On World Environment Day, instrumentalist-composer Grammy Jury Pandit Prodyut Mukherjee has initiated a tree plantation programme at legendary Rabindrasangeet exponent Kanika Bandyopadhyay's house.
