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.
Amid the heated political debate over the state-wide Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, the state’s chief electoral officer (CEO), Manoj Kumar Agarwal, on Tuesday urged citizens not to panic.
The body of a missing tribal girl was fished out of an irrigation canal in Memari near here on Tuesday morning.
In what comes as good news for the cinema lovers of the city, the much awaited mega annual event, 31st Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) is to be held from 6 to 13 November.
According to the notice, Kishor’s name appears on the electoral rolls of both states, an apparent violation of the Representation of the People Act, 1950.
Following a news report about this, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday issued a notice to Kishore to explain his alleged enrollment as a voter in both West Bengal and Bihar within three days.
