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.
Kolkata loves to mythologise its own pluralism; yet here, in the diminishing footprint of India’s Chinese-origin community, “Desi-Chinese” is not branding rhetoric but the residual articulation of a lived history embedded into quotidian food practice.
Trinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday launched a blistering attack on both the Election Commission and the Bharatiya Janata Party from a rally in Kolkata, describing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls as a “conspiracy to snatch away citizens’ democratic rights.”
Tension broke out in Mathurapur in South 24-Parganas district of West Bengal on Tuesday after as many as 15 school children had to be hospitalised after they had fallen ill consuming an infected mid-day meal, officials said.
The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls began across West Bengal on Tuesday, along with similar exercises in 11 other states.
The chief minister was accompanied by her nephew and Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Abhishek Banerjee during the protest march from Red Road to Jodasanko.
