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’.
Darjeeling MP Raju Bista has protested against what he described as “systemic discrimination” against the Nepali language, citing two recent incidents in West Bengal and Sikkim.
Bank of Maharashtra (BOM) inaugurated its 63rd Branch at West Bengal and 65th in Kolkata zone The branch would offer state-of-the-art banking services and will also contribute to the overall development of the local economy.
The Union government has cleared a major expansion of border infrastructure in West Bengal, approving seven new Integrated Check Posts (ICPs) along the frontier with Bangladesh and Nepal.
Prominent leader from the Bhumihar community Ashutosh, former Union Minister Nagmani Kushwaha and his wife, former Bihar minister Suchitra Sinha, also took membership of the party.
Rajeev Chandrasekhar said here on Tuesday that the LDF government has utterly failed to control the skyrocketing prices of essential commodities ibn the state .
