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.
Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday faced protests from a section of people at Raidighi in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district.
Fourteen fishermen from West Bengal have been detained by the Bangladesh Coast Guard (BCG) after they ventured into international waters, police said on Sunday.
BJP leader and Union Minister Mr Sukanta Mazumdar attended a party conference in Baidyabati on Saturday. He warned district BJP leaders and workers not to fall into the “provocation trap” allegedly laid by the TMC and said damaging public property and violence cannot be justified as political protest.
Mystery shrouds over the death of a female doctor of the Contai Sub-Divisional Hospital in East Midnapore district on Friday.
Police in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district on Thursday arrested eight individuals in connection with the kidnapping of a local grocery merchant, Lal Chand Mandal, in Domkal.
