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.
Former Trinamul Congress secretary general and five-time MLA from Behala West, Partha Chatterjee, has made it clear that he is not ready to quit politics.
The Siliguri Corridor, which runs through West Bengal and borders Bangladesh, Nepal, China’s Chumbi Valley in Tibet, and the Kingdom of Bhutan, is just 17 kilometres wide at its narrowest point.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday paid rich tributes to Maulana Abul Kalam Azad on his birth anniversary, recalling his immense contribution to India’s freedom struggle and his enduring legacy as a champion of education and communal harmony.
Hundreds of women BJP workers, on Tuesday, held a protest outside a Block Development Office (BDO) in Moyna of West Bengal's East Midnapore district, alleging that they have stopped receiving benefits of state government's 'Lakshmir Bhandar' scheme due to their political affiliation.
A day after a blast in Delhi which claimed eight lives, West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose, on Tuesday, asked people to have faith in the Central government and all measures will be taken to ensure safety and security of the people of the country.
