Bengal must confront environmental challenge
The formation of a new government in West Bengal offers a historic opportunity not only for administrative reform but also for environmental renewal.
The formation of a new government in West Bengal offers a historic opportunity not only for administrative reform but also for environmental renewal.
Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari is likely to inaugurate the month-long Shravani Mela at the historic Jalpesh temple, a revered shrine dedicated to Lord Shiva, in Jalpaiguri on 20 July, according to highly placed sources.
He said Darjeeling would be developed as the state's first world-class tourism destination, while the second destination would be identified as part of the government's long-term tourism strategy.
With TMC divided into factions, numbers suggest that the three BJP candidates are almost certain to win the by-elections.
The Election Commission of India’s recent announcement of by-elections to three Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal, which fell vacant following the resignations of Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Sushmita Dev and Prakash Chik Baraik — the three Trinamool Congress MPs who stepped down after the party’s debacle in the recent West Bengal Assembly elections — has brought the focus back on the former MPs and the BJP’s plans for them.
In a major development for workers across north Bengal’s tea and cinchona plantations, the Centre on Friday implemented the long-awaited Four Labour Codes, marking the biggest overhaul of India’s labour framework in decades.
A 52-year-old Booth Level Officer engaged in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls was found hanging at her residence in Krishnagar on Saturday morning
The BMC mayor said the dates for the fair have been brought forward as the fair will be followed by the International Kolkata Book Fair at the same venue.
Commuters in Kolkata are likely to have smoother journeys on Saturdays as the city's two Metro networks are set to have an increased number of services on Saturdays.
Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) Sabhasad Ajoy Edwards has fired off a letter to the newly-appointed Darjeeling District Magistrate, Manish Mishra, demanding full transparency in the Housing Grant disbursal for victims of the 5 October landslides.
