East Burdwan exceeds target in Annapurna Yojana registrations on launch day
East Burdwan has set a benchmark by surpassing its registration target under the Annapurna Yojana on the day of its formal launch.
East Burdwan has set a benchmark by surpassing its registration target under the Annapurna Yojana on the day of its formal launch.
Police on Friday arrested a Trinamul Congress panchayat member for allegedly accepting a bribe to facilitate allotment of houses under the Awas Yojana and later issuing death threats when asked to return the money.
A couple from East Burdwan, who had spent nearly 10 months in jail in Bengaluru along with their infant son on alleged charges of being Bangladeshi infiltrators, are now facing a fresh struggle after their names were omitted from the latest supplementary voter list.
In a notable display of environmental responsibility, Trinamul Congress (TMC) candidate for the Ausgram constituency in East Burdwan, Shyamaprasanna Lohar, halted his election campaign to help extinguish a forest fire in the Ausgram jungles today.
A local BJP leader in Galsi of East Burdwan district on Saturday alleged that despite his name appearing on the list for the West Bengal government's Awas Yojana (Housing Scheme), the funds never reached his bank account.
Five Trinamul Congress leaders, including a former block president and the deputy chief of a panchayat, have been expelled by the party’s block committee in East Burdwan as part of a disciplinary measure.
The vice-chancellor of Burdwan University, Professor Shankar Nath, visited Burdwan police station this evening to lodge a formal complaint regarding workplace difficulties.
Trinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee has said leaders above 40 years cannot head the youth wings anymore. However, those who reach 40 years will be absorbed in the main organisation.
At a time when many dead persons are coming alive on the voters' lists, a living voter in Kalna has been declared 'dead' and his name has been deleted from the electoral rolls, much to everyone's surprise.
A jewellery artisan who had recently migrated from East Burdwan, along with his young daughter, died when a four-storey dilapidated residential building collapsed in Jaipur, Rajasthan, late last night.
