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.
Kolkata’s yellow taxis got a makeover before this year’s Durga Puja. The taxis, 40 in number, were transformed into moving time capsules. With richly painted exteriors and interiors done up with wallpapers, fabrics, and textures, each taxi represents a decade, starting 1985.
A female employee of a corporate office in the New Town area was run over by a state government bus on Thursday.
Fire broke out at the house of a physician that was locked from outside in the third-floor of an integrated health city compound in Durgapur today.
Darjeeling MP Raju Bista on Thursday held a review meeting with senior officials of the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL), who are in the region to conduct a detailed survey of NH-10 and chalk out solutions to its recurring problems.
The decomposed bodies of the widow of a former professor and their daughter were recovered from their house in Burdwan town last night, sparking shock and mystery in the region.
