Potato Traders call off strike, retail prices likely to reduce
After a meeting with the state agri-marketing minister, the potato traders have declared to call off their strike from Wednesday evening.
After a meeting with the state agri-marketing minister, the potato traders have declared to call off their strike from Wednesday evening.
Tension prevailed in parts of north Bengal following recent unrest in Bangladesh, triggered by the arrest of a Hindu monk.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee will hold a meeting with the senior bureaucrats tomorrow to prepare a road for successfully holding the Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS).
At Duburdih check post in Bengal – Jharkhand border of Asansol, police are stopping potato-laden trucks from entering Jharkhand.
Odisha witnessed large scale inter-state movement of elephants in the current winter season with jumbos from Jharkhand and West Bengal migrating to the state, according to the All Odisha Elephant Census-2024 census report released on Thursday.
The state Public Health Engineering (PHE) department, which is implementing this project of providing tap water connection, has taken up 2,941 new and augmentation piped water supply schemes at a sanctioned cost of Rs 8,399.5 crore in the financial year 2021-22. In this fiscal, around 56,000 schools and 38,000 anganwadi centres have been provided running water facilities.
The government, however, has recommended that people should continue wearing of masks, practise hand hygiene and sanitation of premises for the time being.
Apart from a few arrests, the “benching” of the local police station’s officer-in-charge and the “shunting” of Rampurhat’s Sub-Divisional Police Officer, no other action appears to have been taken even four days after the macabre tragedy. There has been much too much of tirades and verbal demarches; a spirited response from the Chief Minister; and far too little of substantive action on the ground.
The date of polling will be April 12 and the votes will be counted on April 16, Saturday.
With elections at every level of the social and administrative structure -- from a remote village upto state-level -- politics and violence to control this power equation became an integral part of the social and administrative mechanism.
