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.
This has been revealed through sustained actions by the ED in different pockets of the state on Monday and Tuesday, sources have said.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday directed the state administration to immediately arrange Aadhaar cards for those lacking the documentary identity evidence.
The Border Security Force (BSF) arrested a man and seized gold biscuits valued at over Rs 55 lakh from his possession along the India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal's North 24-Parganas district, an official said on Wednesday.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday claimed that the BJP and the Union government were trying to take indirect control of the state's affairs from New Delhi, but asserted that their ploy will not work.
The Darjeeling District Police has opened a 24-hour control room for the stranded Indians.
