Central BJP leaders are aiming to restructure the saffron party’s organisation at the state and district level ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections in view of the party's poor performance in the Lok Sabha elections.
Nandigram in East Midnapore was on the boil on Thursday, just days before the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha election.
Four people were killed when the car they were travelling in collided head-on with a bus at Marishda in East Midnapore on Thursday, police said.
This weekend, at many places of south Bengal, could be blistering. The weather office has issued a forecast of the mercury soaring up to seven degrees Celsius above normal, for three days during 19-21 April at many places over districts of south Bengal.
A total of 1,02,535 Duare Sarkar camps had been organised to disburse the facilities entailed under the state government’s various beneficiary schemes till 31 December, with a total of 80,04,440 visitors registered at these camps.
According to the police, Rabiyal Khan, a local businessman, tied the children's legs and kicked and beat them with a thick bamboo stick. The children were forced to lie down on an open field. Khan later told the police that the children had stolen parts from his tractor.
As water levels of most of the rivers rose due to heavy rainfall that pounded the twin districts for the last 36 hours, the state government has asked the district magistrates to evacuate people from low-lying areas. In West Midnapore’s Keshiari and Kharagpur, five people died as their homes collapsed on Tuesday night.
Though the plant's internal firefighting system has been pressed into action and help has been sought from the other factories in the nearby locality, senior officials of the plant are of the opinion that the fire will not douse until the Naptha inside the pipeline is completely burned.
Veteran leader, Dr Manas Bhunia has been made minister for water resources investigation and development department.
Despite incidents of violence, parts of Raipur, Chhatna, Ranibandh and Saltora Assembly Constituencies (AC) recorded a whopping over 80 per cent polling in the first phase today.
