Tag: Murshidabad

Abhishek: TMC to intensify stir against Centre for dues

The TMC leader was addressing a mammoth rally in Murshidabad

May 8, 2023

Govt to spend `50cr to check erosion

The departmental secretaries, principal secretaries and additional chief secretaries joined the meeting virtually. The state government had already spent Rs 1,000 crore in five years to prevent erosion.

May 5, 2023

CM slams BJP as ‘most corrupt’ in the country

Mamata also blamed the BJP for dividing the country in the name of religion

April 20, 2023

66 bigha land under Murshidabad estate illegally occupied

Murshidabad estate has recently identified the 22 illegally occupied plots and lodged FIRs with respective police stations in a move to take possession of the land.

April 4, 2023

West Bengal: 2,000 TMC, BJP workers join Congress in Murshidabad, claims Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury

Carrying the Congress party flag in their hands, around 2,000 TMC, BJP workers joined the Congress at the Baharampur Congress office here, Chowdhury said on Sunday.

March 20, 2023

Adhir writes to Jal Shakti minister, flags erosion concerns in Murshidabad

Claiming that riverbank erosion was "widespread throughout the course of the Ganges in West Bengal", Chowdhury wrote, "(A) Very large chunk of fertile land has been completely wiped out and thousands of people have been displaced in Samsher Ganj."

November 6, 2022

AAP’s silent network expansion in Bengal

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has started expanding its organisational network in West Bengal very silently and at an extremely slow pace.

October 25, 2022

More districts

With the government’s attention riveted to smaller districts, attention to administrative nitty-gritty can be expected to be more focused than now, and deliveries should improve.

August 5, 2022

CM announces 7 new dists in Bengal for better devp

The area under the existing districts in the state is vast and therefore they need to be split further, she had said, adding that the state needs more manpower and infrastructure for the purpose.

August 2, 2022

Adhir unhappy with district congress workers

There is nothing wrong if the Congress begins from zero, said Chowdhury, also the leader of the Congress party in Parliament.

June 29, 2022

Terror attack: The National Investigation Agency arrests third suspect

Following a written instruction from the Union home ministry that based its reports on the initial FIR of Azimganj GRP in Murshidabad district.

June 5, 2022

French silk expert wants to see Murshidabad in global Silk City network

Moulin said she would travel to Murshidabad district, and interact with craftsmen, local experts of silk, and study the culture of silk artists. She said that the entire initiative would be carried out in partnership with Institut francais India, Embassy of France and Crafts Council of West Bengal.

April 8, 2022

Deaf and dumb youth stabbed to death, accused’s house set afire

A kangaroo court had reportedly intervened to settle the issue of elopement about six months back when Ripon, the deaf and dumb youth, desperately tried to express his apprehension before the Majlis (rural court) that he might be killed by Imran

April 4, 2022

Mamata bats for tobacco industry

When informed that an ESI hospital in Murshidabad, reportedly run by the Union labour department, has no doctors, Miss Banerjee today declared that the Bengal government would set up a similar hospital exclusively for tobacco workers.

December 9, 2021

Mamata may visit Murshidabad, officials inspect choked wetlands

Miss Banerjee, during her administrative meeting at Behrampore, may ask district officials for clarification regarding host of allegations that cropped up recently against racket of mafias responsible for filling up of ponds and wetlands

December 4, 2021

Murshidabad: Eyeing civic body polls, TMC launches campaign

The TMC leaders claimed that a few hundred workers and loyalists belonging to opposition parties like the CPI-M, Congress and BJP joined the TMC during the event.

October 7, 2021

NIA arrests fake currency racketeer from Murshidabad

A case was originally registered on August 7, 2018, in Bengaluru relating to the seizure of Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) having a face value of Rs 6.84 lakh

June 25, 2021