The second day of the 60th Garment Buyers & Sellers Meet & B2B Expo, organised by the West Bengal Garment Manufacturers & Dealers Association (WBGMDA) at Science City, witnessed an overwhelming response from buyers, retailers, distributors, wholesalers, and industry stakeholders from across India and overseas.
Political history is too important to be left either to political memory or to political mythology. Its first obligation is historical explanation.
In O. Henry’s The Last Leaf, ailing Johnsy clings to life because one painted leaf refuses to fall. Such is the power of optimism; it does not need to be certain to be effective.
Having studied, in the sixties, at two of Bengal’s iconic institutions, and having observed the paths these have traversed, some thoughts crossed my mind for consideration of the new government.
Light follows darkness. After the 15-year long TMC era ~ most certainly a dark period in the socio-economic and political history of Bengal, people are now hoping for rejuvenation of a state that has fallen beyond the depth of anarchy and despair.
In Potagachi village of Ektarpur Panchayat in Balagarh, Hooghly, the names of around 900 people are missing from the 2002 voter list published by the Election Commission. Voters fear that their names may be excluded during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR).
Tension gripped the Hakimpur border area in North 24-Parganas’ Swarupnagar on Thursday morning after locals accused sections of the Media of spreading “misleading and provocative” reports amid the ongoing outflow of Bangladeshi nationals returning to their country following the announcement of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
There is turmoil within the Trinamul-led Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC).
CPI-M politburo member and state secretary Mohammed Salim on Wednesday delivered a sharp political message to leaders of various Left parties, urging them to “break and crush” what he described as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) expanding “enclosures” across the country – from Gujarat to West Bengal.
A day after Trinamul Congress observes state-wide “Communal Harmony Day”, on 6 December, marking the anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition, a Gita chanting congregation is set to be held at the Brigade Parade Grounds on 7 December.
