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.
The process of framing charges against a total of 21 accused individuals in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)-registered cases in the alleged multi-crore West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) scam, was completed at a special CBI court here on Thursday.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday rejected the plea from the West Bengal government for inclusion of Swastha Sathi and ration or PDS cards in the list of the documentary cards in case of the commission-proposed special intensive revision for West Bengal.
The West Bengal Madrasah Service Commission (WBMSC) announced the resolution of the Group-D recruitment process, which had remained entangled in legal and procedural complexities for nearly 15 years.
For a creative person like Rituparna Sengupta, expression can be in any form, any medium. She has donned many hats, of an actor, director and philanthropist, she now has turned author.
West Bengal Governor Dr C V Ananda Bose and chief minister Mamata Banerjee left Siliguri on Wednesday after reviewing the situation along the Indo-Nepal border in the wake of recent unrest in Nepal.
