Border fencing begins in Siliguri subdivision as BSF gets 27-km stretch of land
Border fencing work has started in Bengal’s Phansidewa area after the state government transferred 27 kilometres of land to the BSF for security infrastructure.
Border fencing work has started in Bengal’s Phansidewa area after the state government transferred 27 kilometres of land to the BSF for security infrastructure.
President Droupadi Murmu will visit West Bengal on 7-8 March to attend the ninth International Santhal Council Conference in Phansidewa. This is her first visit to north Bengal after assuming office.
The two-day conference will be held at the Santoshini High School ground on March 7 and 8. The President will travel to Bidhannagar in the Phansidewa block, adjacent to the Siliguri area in the Darjeeling district.
Kanchanjungha Express, which was hit by a goods train and claimed eight lives, arrived at its destination station, Sealdah in Kolkata, in the early hours of Tuesday after the completion of restoration work.
The agency that has been constructing a flyover, a portion of which came down crashing at Kantibhita, around 30 km…
In a significant political development, former CPI-M MLA of Phansidewa and member of the Siliguri Mahakuma Parishad (SMP), Choton Kisku,…