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.
According to the West Bengal police, the student of a private medical college in Durgapur, West Burdwan district, had stepped out of the campus with a male friend for an evening snack around 8.30 pm on Friday night when a group of young men on motorcycles began stalking them and making lewd comments.
Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, on Saturday, laid a wreath and paid homage to Army Bravehearts Lance Havildar Palash Ghosh and Lance Naik Sujay Ghosh, from West Bengal, who laid down their lives during a counter-terrorist operation in the Anantnag district of South Kashmir.
The teacher of a reputed missionary-run school in Kolkata was detained by the Kolkata Police on Friday after he was moving through the road carrying an air pistol in his bag.
A 21-year-old engineering student was allegedly raped in the Anandapur area by a boyfriend of the survivor’s classmate on 26 September.
After staging a protest at the Maithon office of the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) a few days ago, the Trinamul Congress (TMC) today gheraoed the Panchet office of the DVC in Jharkhand, alleging that the corporation has been releasing huge quantities of water without consulting the state government, leading to man-made floods.
