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.
A special menu has been planned for prisoners in correctional homes across West Bengal during the four days of Durga Puja.
Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, the new Chief Whip of Trinamool Congress in the Lok Sabha and four-time MP from Barasat constituency in North 24 Paragans district of West Bengal, has sparked a row by making a controversial social media post a day before the state is set to celebrate the four-day Durga Puja festival.
The headquarters of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has interrogated former Trinamul Congress Rajya Sabha MP and IMA West Bengal branch secretary, Dr Santanu Sen, over the opening of a bank account with the headquarters' PAN number and withdrawing about Rs 1.32 crore from it.
A 66-year-old woman died of electrocution in the southern outskirts of Kolkata on Saturday, taking the total number of such deaths in and around the city to 11 since Tuesday.
The Asansol–Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC) has arrested six persons in connection with the Rs 40-lakh cash loot from a vehicle travelling from Patna to Kolkata near the Banskopa Toll Plaza on national highway 19, under the jurisdiction of Kanksha police station.
