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.
Nine labourers hailing from six families in Seora village in Hooghly's Goghat area are passing days in great anxiety, holed up in their shelter at Urlabari in Morang district of Nepal for the past five days.
On the occasion of the birth anniversary of the legendary Bengali literary figure Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, Balagarh Bijoy Krishna Mahavidyalaya organised a tree plantation event as part of an academic and social initiative.
As Mahalaya day (the sacred day when Devi Paksha starts) draws near, more and more Puja committees are unveiling their themes.
A protest over months of unpaid wages at Arati Cotton Mill in Howrah on Thursday disrupted a programme attended by West Bengal BJP state president and Lok Sabha MP Shamik Bhattacharya, with workers surrounding his vehicle in Dasnagar and staging angry demonstrations.
Trinamul Congress has demanded unconditional apology from Sukanta Majumdar, Union minister of state for education after it was found out that photographs of Rabindranath Tagore and Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay were placed on the base of the dais, while the minister sat on a chair.
