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.
The TMC MP Derek O'Brien Saturday accused the Narendra Modi-led government of suffering from "Parliament-phobia" after the announcement of a shortened Winter Session of Parliament, scheduled to run from 1 to 19 December, with only 15 working days.
After the Opposition, now a state cabinet minister has raised his voice against the functioning of booth level officers (BLOs) engaged by the Election Commission of India.
It is being claimed that Mamata Banerjee is currently grappling with a political crisis in the state following two back-to-back alleged incidents of rape — one involving an engineering student in Kolkata and another involving a medical student in Paschim Bardhaman.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to visit Siliguri on 10 November for a daylong trip and is expected to return to Kolkata the following day, 11 November.
Despite being labelled as ‘Bangladeshi’ by the Delhi Police and pushed back across the border, the families of Sunali and Sweety Bibi in Birbhum district of West Bengal have now received enumeration forms for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voters’ list from the Election Commission of India (ECI) at their homes.
