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.
All India General Secretary (AIGS) of Trinamul Congress AvisekhBanerjee has directed the Birbhum district party leadership to stopfactional feud and work together setting a target to win all theassembly seats in the next year’s polls.
West Bengal Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari met Union home minister Amit Shah in New Delhi on Monday and a day later, made a strong pitch for the BJP’s prospects in the 2026 Assembly elections.
Leader of the Opposition in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Wednesday, observed that the decision by a group of industrialists to approach the Calcutta High Court against the decision of the state government to revoke an industry incentive scheme in the state was inevitable.
Ek dake Abhishek, an initiative taken by Abhishek Banerjee, national general secretary of Trinamul Congress has helped rescue a migrant Bengali-speaking worker, who was confined by the police and later brutally assaulted in Odisha.
With the Pujas just around the bend, the state government has announced an advance disbursal of current month salaries for its employees between 24 and 25 September, this year.
