West Bengal’s budget bets on infra push, welfare, jobs and fiscal repair
The BJP-led West Bengal government and journalist-turned-politician Swapan Dasgupta’s maiden budget attempts an ambitious political and economic balancing act.
The BJP-led West Bengal government and journalist-turned-politician Swapan Dasgupta’s maiden budget attempts an ambitious political and economic balancing act.
Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring on Sunday jibed at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Nabin for selling the alleged bogus dreams of recreating the Maharaja Ranjit Singh era in Punjab.
Stepping up his attack on the BJP-led Odisha government, Leader of the Opposition and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president Naveen Patnaik on Friday accused it of failing the state's most vulnerable citizens over the non-disbursal of social security pensions to nearly 18 lakh beneficiaries for the last three months, and urged Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi to ensure immediate release of the pending payments.
The BJP on Friday accused the Congress of being responsible for the declining relevance of the INDIA bloc, claiming that the alliance is facing an existential crisis due to the opposition party’s “opportunistic and self-serving politics”.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), under Asansol organisation district of Rahr Bangla, has officially unveiled two new, futuristic state-of-the-art party offices in Durgapur city in West Burdwan district on Thursday named as ‘Janatar Karyalay’.
Former West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh was not invited for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally yet again, making it three times in a row.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s fiery attack on corruption during his Bengal rally drew sharp counterattacks from the opposition Left and Congress, who accused him of hypocrisy and electioneering ahead of the 2026 state polls.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that unchecked infiltration was depriving Bengal’s youth of jobs, while promising large-scale tourism and infrastructure projects if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in the state in 2026.
The West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination board today released the results of a key engineering and medical entrance examination after a four-month delay caused by legal disputes over caste-based reservations.
Trishanjit Dolui, a student of Purv International School in Durgapur, is the only candidate from West Burdwan district to feature in the top five merit list of the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE), securing the fifth rank.
