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.
A routine anti-narcotics operation turned into a night of chaos and confrontation on Tuesday when a clash erupted between the Border Security Force (BSF) and the West Bengal Police over the custody of seized bottles of Venorex cough syrup — a banned substance frequently smuggled across the Indo-Bangladesh border.
The convoy of Union Minister of State for Education and former state president of the BJP in West Bengal, Sukanta Majumdar, was allegedly attacked by the Trinamool Congress activists at Nabadwip in Nadia district of West Bengal on Wednesday night.
With the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls already underway across Bengal, the Trinamul Congress has found itself trailing behind both the BJP and the CPM in appointing booth-level agents (BLA-2s), according to data released by the Election Commission of India.
Three Trinamul Congress MLAs have alleged that they are being threatened with arrest in the name of the central investigation agencies. All three of them filed a complaint with the police on Tuesday, said sources in Trinamul Congress.
On the day the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls began across West Bengal, one person allegedly committed suicide due to the fear of the exercise.
