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.
Barely hours after a large cache of explosives was recovered from Faridabad on Monday morning, a powerful explosion rocked the vicinity of Delhi’s historic Red Fort in the evening, leaving at least eight people dead and several others injured.
Darjeeling MP Raju Bista has written to West Bengal Governor Dr CV Ananda Bose, seeking his immediate intervention for the release of State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) allocations to aid victims of the devastating landslides and floods that hit the Darjeeling hills, Terai, and Dooars regions in early October 2025.
A Booth Level Assistant (BLA) for the BJP was assaulted yesterday afternoon allegedly by Trinamul Congress supporters when he refused to leave the area assigned to him while accompanying the Booth Level Officer (BLO) in carrying out enumeration work.
Issuing notice to the ECI, a Bench comprising Chief Justice-designate Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi granted the poll body two weeks to file its response and scheduled the hearing for November 26, 2025.
Fulfilling a long-standing demand of the people of Siliguri, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday announced the construction of an international-standard cricket stadium in the city.
