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 Bengali-speaking students were allegedly branded as Bangladeshis by a group of traders, who were speaking Hindi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on a two-state visit to poll-bound Bihar and Kolkata on Friday, August 20.
At least six people, including four police personnel, were injured in a grenade attack on a police van in the Usta Mohammad district of Balochistan, officials confirmed on Monday, The Balochistan Post (TBP) reported.
The government of West Bengal's pioneering 'Amader Para, Amader Samadhan' (APAS) initiative has achieved an unprecedented milestone, with over 50 lakh citizens participating across the state in just 15 days since its launch.
The Rajya Sabha Trinamul Congress MP, who is also a trade union leader, had earlier asked questions on the plans by the Centre on installing Tagore’s statue at Jallianwala Bagh memorial in Punjab.
