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 Sangh Parivar's All India Coordination Committee here has expressed concern over risen infiltration from Bangladesh into West Bengal and incidents of forced conversions and evil of drug addiction in Punjab.
Nearly nine years after the last recruitment test, the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) is set to conduct the state-level teacher recruitment examinations again, beginning Sunday, with papers for Classes IX and X.
“Advocates don’t retire, judges do,” remarked the Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court, Justice T S Sivagnanam, while inaugurating the new court building at City Centre this morning. Reflecting on his career, he added: “I have served the judiciary for 16 years and may return to the Bar after retirement.”
With only a few weeks remaining for Goddess Durga to descend from her celestial abode on Mount Kailash to mark Mahalaya—the beginning of Devi Paksha—preparations are in full swing across West Bengal.
A pall of grief and fury descended on Nischintapur Battala in Nadia’s Tehatta on Saturday after the body of a missing nine-year-old boy was recovered from a nearby pond, sparking violent mob reprisal that left two neighbours dead and one critically injured.
