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 Supreme Court on Thursday reprimanded the School Service Commission in West Bengal (WBSSC) for allowing “ineligible candidates” to appear in the recruitment examinations.
Three mysterious deaths in three separate incidents were reported from Anandapur area in the southern part of Kolkata, according to police.
Criticisms from her political opponents notwithstanding, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's various citizen-oriented initiatives that are being implemented through use of digital technology have gone down well among the stakeholders of digital world.
Even 24 hours after the daylight killing of 19-year-old student Isha Mallik in the heart of Krishnagar, the town remains gripped by disbelief and fear.
With the 2026 Assembly elections approaching, minister of state for health Chandrima Bhattacharya has sharpened the Trinamul Congress’s (TMC) campaign strategy by mobilising the party’s women’s cell to take on the BJP at the grassroots.
