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.
Coined by Miss Banerjee herself, the Paray Shikshalay is a community-based learning system for primary students. Over 60 lakh students studying in pre-primary to class 4 of the age group 5 to 9 years will be benefited from this initiative. It will bring 50,159 primary schools and over 15,000 shishu shiksha kendras under its ambit.
This is not the first time but there are several instances when the tableaux were rejected by the Centre. In 2020, the tableau designed by chief minister Mamata Banerjee on 'Kanyashree' project -a pet project of the chief minister to provide financial assistance to the girl students was rejected by the Centre.
The tweet from Roy read: "Suppressing a serious disease will not cure it; instead, it may hasten death! It began with the money-women syndrome. There was no course correction even after the disastrous results in assembly and corporation elections. The West Bengal BJP is hurtling towards death!"
his is the fourth time in recent years that West Bengal’s tableau has been rejected. In 2020, the state had given three proposals for the state tableaux for the January 26 parade ~ 1. Kanyashree, 2. Save Green, stay clean, 3. Jol Dhoro Jol Bhoro. But all proposals were rejected. In 2017, the state had sent its tableau proposal for Unity in Harmony but it was rejected and chief minister Mamata Banerjee herself had said that it was cancelled deliberately and due to political reasons.
The decision to defer the election was taken after the state government wrote a letter to the Commission on Saturday morning that they do not have any objection if the SEC decides to postpone the election for another 4 to 6 weeks considering the Covid situation in the state.
