Tag: Bengal

Mamata walks in support of protesting wrestlers, seeks arrest of WFI chief

The solidarity walk started from Hazra More and ended at Rabindra Sadan.Miss Banerjee is the first chief minister to take part in such an event to express solidarity with the agitating wrestlers.

June 1, 2023

Eye on rural polls, govt announces 1.25L jobs

Process for filling up vacancies would begin within next two months: Mamata

May 31, 2023

Members of women police ‘Winners Team’ donate blood in Serampore

One of the team member said: “During the ongoing summer spell, there is an acute shortage of blood at blood banks.

May 28, 2023

SBSTC to set up three CNG fuelling stations in Asansol, Durgapur and Arambagh

The state-owned South Bengal State Transport Corporation (SBSTC) plans to set up three CNG fuelling stations of its own in Asansol, Durgapur and Arambagh in the coming months.

May 28, 2023

Barrackpore jewellery store robbers had initially targeted Howrah shop

Barrackpore commissionerate sources said that the duo, Safi Khan and Jamshed Ansari, arrested from Khardha, North 24-Parganas and Muraroi, Birbhum, respectively, were uncle and nephew.

May 28, 2023

Mamata alleges BJP’s plot to incite ethnic riot in state

Mamata Banerjee also announced a significant boost to employment opportunities in the Junglemahal region

May 28, 2023

State speeds up paddy procurement in Burdwan

The state had targeted to ensure procurement of 6.21 lakh MT, but, on actual 4.64 lakh MT could be secured through the central procurement centres

May 22, 2023

India’s imprints in Vietnam through photo exhibition

The trade continued for many years. Many of the traders, mostly Hindu, settled in Vietnam.

May 19, 2023

In states where Congress is strong, other parties should help it: KC Tyagi

Tyagi cautioned that no party should name any prime ministerial candidate for the 2024 polls.

May 18, 2023

CM proposes diploma 3-yr medical courses

Miss Banerjee, while speaking at a meeting with senior officials, including chief secretary HK Dwivedi, home secretary BP Gopalika and other bureaucrats at the state secretariat Nabanna

May 12, 2023

Families of victims hope for justice, BJP lauds order

Family members of the two students killed in Darivit 'firing' have expressed hope that they would be finally given the much-awaited justice.

May 11, 2023

Soldiers martyred in Rajouri from Bengal, HP, J&K, Uttrakhand

Among the five bravehearts, one is from West Bengal, two from Himachal Pradesh and one each from Jammu and Uttrakhand.

May 5, 2023

Minister Manna hits out at Suvendu

In a massive public meeting at Singur, the state minister Mr Beccharam Manna came down heavily on the opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari calling him a traitor.

April 25, 2023

After spurt in Covid cases, govt mandates use of masks, sanitisers

Concerned with the rise in Covid-19 infection rates, Miss Banerjee alerted her administration in this regard during a cabinet meeting on Monday at the state secretariat.

April 19, 2023

“May the year ahead bring joy, exceptional health”: PM Modi extends greetings on ‘Poila Boishakh’

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday extended greetings on the occasion of 'Poila Boishakh' and wished happiness and good health to all.

April 15, 2023

City celebrates Cosmonautics Day

Travelling in the Vostok 1 capsule, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first human in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight, on 12 April, 1961.

April 13, 2023

Trinamool leader shot dead in broad daylight in Bengal

In a shocking incident at Hanskhali in West Bengal's Nadia district, a local Trinamool Congress leader was shot dead in broad daylight by miscreants on Friday morning.

April 7, 2023