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.
At a time when there are reports of multiple cases of atrocities and detention of migrant labourers from Bengal in different states for speaking Bengali, there is something to cheer about.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a two-day visit to Kolkata from Sunday, to inaugurate a three-day long Combined Commanders' Conference (CCC) of the armed forces at Fort William in the city on Monday.
Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) Ltd added yet another feather in its cap by delivering Androth, second in a series of eight anti-submarine warfare shallow water crafts (ASW SWCs) being built by the shipyard for the Navy, on Saturday.
What began as a clash between two groups of students snowballed into an alleged murder at the busy Dakshineswar Metro station this afternoon. Reports claim that one student fatally stabbed another with a sharp weapon inside the station, triggering panic among passengers.
At least five people have been killed and few others are still trapped inside a stone quarry in Bahadurpur under Nalhati police station limits of Birbhum district today.
