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.
Academy of Technology (AOT) celebrated its Foundation Day on Friday at its Adisaptagram campus, Hooghly.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s fiery attack on corruption during his Bengal rally drew sharp counterattacks from the opposition Left and Congress, who accused him of hypocrisy and electioneering ahead of the 2026 state polls.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that unchecked infiltration was depriving Bengal’s youth of jobs, while promising large-scale tourism and infrastructure projects if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in the state in 2026.
The West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination board today released the results of a key engineering and medical entrance examination after a four-month delay caused by legal disputes over caste-based reservations.
Trishanjit Dolui, a student of Purv International School in Durgapur, is the only candidate from West Burdwan district to feature in the top five merit list of the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE), securing the fifth rank.
