Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday asked police to register a case under the POCSO Act in the alleged rapemurder of a 10-year-old girl in Kultali in Joynagar in South 24-Parganas istrict, and ensure that the culprits get capital punishment within three months.
Among the traditional handlooms in Bengal, Begumpur handloom, Santipur handloom, and Dhaniakhali handloom sarees have earned worldwide recognition.
Puja committees, who are making an endeavor to make their pandals friendly for senior citizens and the disabled will be awarded. Around 250 Durga Puja committees would be participating for the awards.
Braving inclement weather and intermittent rain, chief minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurated a slew of Durga Pujas in the city from north to south of the city.
The concern for nature and the attachment to one’s culture is binding puja organisers this year. While one club evokes its sentiments towards the city, the other talks about the visual pollution, which is harming the charm of Kolkata.
The Calcutta High Court on Monday permitted to organizers, including junior doctors to hold their protest procession, scheduled on Tuesday in the demanding justice for the gruesome rape and murder of the woman doctors at R G Kar Medical College hospital on 9 August.
An 18-year-old girl from Ekbalpur, Kolkata was raped at a house in Memari in East Burdwan last night.
There are often debates over whether India, at this age, needs as sprawling and palatial Governor Houses (Raj Bhawans) as it has (and it has as many as 38 of them) and whether these spaces can be better utilised for social and developmental purposes.
The chairperson of the board of administrators of the Durgapur Municipal Corporation has lent her voice for a song prepared for the Durga Puja Carnival in Durgapur.
The flood situation in West Bengal has pushed vegetable prices in the retail markets in Kolkata to skyrocket just before the forthcoming prolonged festive season in the state, starting with Durga Puja in the second week of next month.
