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 major relief to the residents of New Town and Salt Lake, the state transport department is mulling plans to introduce buses in five routes in various parts of the satellite townships.
US President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation to ban entry of individuals from 12 nations - Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen, citing national security and public safety threats, according to the White House.
Three youths drowned in the Damodar river at Randiha Dam, under Budbud police station in West Burdwan district, on Tuesday afternoon.
Birbhum Police has seized the cell phone of IC of Bolpur police station, Liton Haldar and has sent it for forensic testing.
At a time when a section of people in north Bengal is demanding the cancellation of the amended Waqf Act, senior officials of the West Bengal Waqf Board have launched a special drive to recover properties allegedly encroached upon by non-Muslims in various parts of North Bengal
