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.
With West Bengal’s 2026 Assembly elections looming, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has stepped up preparations by dispatching senior leaders to Kolkata.
As Thursday marks the end of the four-day Durga Puja festival in West Bengal without a single protest demonstration on the R.G. Kar rape and murder tragedy, the parents of the victim have called for resurrection of the mass movement, as was evident last year, till "justice is achieved".
On Thursday, on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, she remained conspicuous with her emphasis on the maintenance of communal harmony in West Bengal.
A crucial meeting of the different allies of CPI(M)-led Left Front in West Bengal is expected to take place after the ongoing festive season on seat-sharing arrangement with Congress and All India Secular Front (AISF) ahead of the assembly elections.
In the videos and pictures shared on his official social media handle, he claimed that the community Durga Puja Pandal where such a development has surfaced is that of Purba Shibtala Durga Puja Pandal in the Maheshpur Panchayat area at Farakka town in Murshidabad district.
