Tag: West Bengal
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ED probes Bengal pvt colleges getting recognition against payments
According to ED sources, their officials are in the process of summoning the chiefs of some such private law and pharmacy colleges who reportedly paid money for recognition of their respective institutions.
December 1, 2022 -
Alipore Jail Museum: Where history is kept in a freeze frame
The fact that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Rishi Aurobindo, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Bidhan Chandra Roy were among the prominent national figures who were arrested and kept here adds to the significance of the place. The museum tells moving stories of the Indian freedom fighters.
November 26, 2022 -
Cattle scam: CBI quizzes lottery winner ‘forced’ to sell ticket at throwaway price
Nur Ali came to a temporary camp of CBI in January and informed rhat he won a prize of Rs 1 crore against a lottery ticket purchased by him.
November 24, 2022 -
Teachers’ recruitment scam: Role of some school sub-inspectors under CBI scanner
As many as 15 such sub-inspectors of school education have been summoned at the office of CBI's anti-corruption wing.
November 19, 2022 -
Pages from a village diary
Once upon a time in the village of Narayanpur there lived a bunch of people who assembled children's toys at the rate of 144 toys for Rs 20. Calculation yields that assembling one toy fetches them a little more than 13 paise and a little less than 14 paise. But alas, as much as I would have wished I was talking about some distant past when calculations were still in paise, I am not.
November 18, 2022 -
Gadkari inaugurates 2 highway projects worth Rs 1,082 cr in Bengal
Gadkari said fulfilling the 60-year-old demand of the people of Dalkhola (NH-34), this 5 km and 4-lane bypass built at the total cost of Rs 120 crore, will finally solve the traffic problem in Dalkhola town now.
November 18, 2022 -
BJP MP files FIR against Bengal minister over remarks on Prez
The leader of opposition in West Bengal Assembly has wrote to state governor, La Ganesan to intervene in dismissing Giri as MLA.
November 13, 2022 -
Objectionable remark against President Murmu: BJP writes to NCW, seeks disciplinary action against TMC leader Akhil Giri
Akhil Giri made the objectionable remarks against the President of India on Friday while talking about West Bengal opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari following an incident of unrest in the BJP leader's Nandigram constituency over the Martyrs' Day event.
November 12, 2022 -
CAA attempt to mislead Matuas who are already Indian citizens: Mamata Banerjee
Matuas are a Scheduled Caste designated refugee community from Bangladesh currently concentrated mainly in Bangaon sub-division of North 24 Parganas district.
November 9, 2022 -
WB: STF arrests veteran arms supplier from railway station, arms recovered
The STF officers have identified the person arrested on Monday evening as 55-years-old Tapan Saha who belonged to Habra Manasabari in West Bengal.
November 8, 2022 -
Suvendu Adhikari writes to Mandaviya over surge of dengue cases in WB
Pointing to the alarming situation of dengue in the state, Suvendu Adhikari in his letter wrote, "At a time when you are choking in the national capital, the people of West Bengal are tormented by mosquitos.
November 7, 2022 -
Voter list revision work in Bengal to begin from Nov 9
Regarding the matter, the state's Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) had convened an all-party meeting earlier on Wednesday.
November 2, 2022 -
Political slugfest begins after body of Morbi mishap victim from Bengal returns
The body of Habibul Sheikh, a victim from West Bengal in the Morbi cable bridge collapse in Gujarat, was on Tuesday brought back to his ancestral residence at Purbasthali in East Burdwan district.
November 1, 2022 -
After Morbi mishap, Bengal govt seeks report on cable bridges in state
A day after the Morbi bridge collapse which killed 141 persons in Gujarat, the West Bengal Public Works Department (PWD) on Monday sought a detailed report on the condition of all the cable bridges in the state.
October 31, 2022 -
Indian forest officials rescue elephant calf from Nepal
The nine-month-old male calf was separated from its herd. The calf was roaming in forests of Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary and adjoining forests of Kurseong division in the Darjeeling district.
October 31, 2022 -
Bengal BJP prepares for rural polls with an eye one Lok Sabha elections
Party sources said the state BJP has also planned to kick start its preparatory meeting from north Bengal, where the BJP had bagged seven Lok Sabha seats of the eight.
October 28, 2022 -
Mamata’s statements on Singur reveal that she is jittery: CPI(M)
Over the last few days, after the Durga Puja, Mamata Banerjee has been denying that she or the Trinamool Congress had any role in not allowing the Tata Motors small car factory to come up in Singur, Hooghly.
October 25, 2022