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.
Former cricketer and state sports & youth welfare minister Manoj Tiwari claimed that the BJP would make a carbon copy of chief minister Mamata Banerjee's Amader Para, Amader Samadhan (APAS) campaign and implement it in other states, just as they had earlier replicated the Kanyashree scheme.
The Raja Narendra Lal Khan Women’s College (Autonomous), one of the oldest institutions dedicated to women’s education in West Bengal, marked its 69th Foundation Day on Friday with a series of academic and cultural events that recalled its enduring legacy.
As Durga Pujas carefully work upon their themes, one of the popular Pujas South Kolkata, Samaj Sebi has gone back to their roots to make it their theme this year.
Three rowers represented West Bengal in the KIWSF 2025 of which Shweta, 26, emerged the lone medalist from the two events – men’s double scull and women’s single scull -- that Bengal qualified.
In a two-pronged reaction to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Kolkata and inauguration of new Metro lines, the Trinamul Congress today belittled BJP's poll prospects next year as well as expressed dismay at the Railways' neglecting Mamata Banerjee's name during today's programmes.
