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.
Sources in the state information and cultural affairs department said, each district has been instructed to send a list of 25 Pujas through email by Monday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to come to Kolkata next week.
The officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) are conducting parallel and marathon raid and search operations at three locations in West Bengal since early Monday morning in relation to sand-smuggling rackets running in the state.
West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu on Sunday expressed satisfaction over the manner in which the first round of the written examination for fresh recruitment for teaching jobs in state-run schools in the state was conducted earlier in the day.
Senior Congress leader and former Union MoS Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Sunday wrote to Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw demanding toilet facilities in nine EMU–MEMU trains running between Sealdah in Kolkata and Lalgola in Murshidabad district stations.
