Bengal launches ‘Bidyut Prahari’ app to report power theft, illegal hooking
The app allows users to report incidents of electricity theft and illegal hooking by uploading photographs and sharing the geographical coordinates of the location.
The app allows users to report incidents of electricity theft and illegal hooking by uploading photographs and sharing the geographical coordinates of the location.
How the United States quietly built a functioning American township on the Hooghly to sustain victory in Asia during the Second World War
The West Bengal government has announced plans to repurpose the defunct ‘Mishti Hub’ at Bamchandaipur in East Burdwan district into a food processing unit, potentially for rice or potato chips manufacturing, ending its four-year closure.
State Forest minister Manoj Kumar Oraon stressed that relocating families from the core area is essential before the tigress can be released.
The West Bengal government has appointed senior IAS officer Dr Krishna Gupta as the next State Election Commissioner. Currently serving as Additional Chief Secretary in the Co-operation Department, he will assume charge after retiring on June 30, according to an official notification published in the Kolkata Gazette.
Police in Noida have revealed that Bibhas Adhikari, arrested last week for allegedly running a fake police station and used to pose himself as the “officer in-charge” of that ghost police station, also served as a non-official director of a West Bengal government-backed body.
The West Bengal government on Monday initiated an internal inquiry to probe the alleged involvement of the five poll personnel, including two Electoral Registration Officers (ERO), WBCS executives, and assistant EROs.
The Calcutta High Court (HC) on Thursday directed the West Bengal government to issue an order to shut down all student union rooms in colleges and universities across the state until student body elections are held.
The salary portal for the teaching and non-teaching staff in West Bengal Government schools continues to show on the payrolls the names of the 25,753 staff members whose jobs were terminated following an order by a Division Bench of the Supreme Court last week.
The West Bengal government has sanctioned Rs 1 crore to the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS) to honour the late Justice Radha Binod Pal, the only Indian judge from the Calcutta High Court who participated in the Tokyo Trials.
