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.
There is a flood-like situation in Manikchak and Ratua areas of Malda district due to the breaching of embankments of Fulahar river.
The All Bengal PHE Contractors’ Association (Civil), representing contractors who have been serving the Public Health and Technical Department of West Bengal for over three to four decades, has expressed deep concern over the prolonged issue of pending payments under the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM).
More than five centuries old, a tradition and custom that has braved the vagaries of time, its intrinsic nature winning the support of one leader after another, no matter the allegiance. That, succinctly, sums up the Ghoshal Bari Durga Puja in Konnagar.
The state government will set free 45 convicts serving life terms in different correctional homes in the state.
In a landmark development for maritime infrastructure, Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port on Monday signed a concession agreement with JSW Infra Ltd. for the mechanisation and modernisation of Berths 7 and 8 at Netaji Subhas Dock (NSD) under the Kolkata Dock System (KDS).
