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.
A mob in West Bengal’s Nadia district lynched a couple after a child’s body was found in a pond in Nischintapur. Police have launched an investigation.
The Leader of Opposition in Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, announced today plans to hold a protest march and rally at Dum Dum later this month, accusing state education minister Bratya Basu of making “disparaging” comments about the Indian Army during a special assembly session.
The Fest5 International Film Festival (F5IFF’25) opened on Friday with great enthusiasm at the Anthropological Survey of India auditorium.
Believe it or not, West Bengal has the highest “disability adjusted life year” for brain stroke in India.
The row erupted on Tuesday when Basu, speaking during a debate on alleged attacks on Bengalis in BJP-ruled states, recalled incidents where he said the Army dismantled protest sites in West Bengal.
