Kolkata: City hospitals are ready for a switch to Ayushman Bharat scheme or a transition of the existing Swasthya Sathi into the former, as per the govt’s direction. A Swasthya Bhavan meeting on Friday took up the issue, raising hopes of a revival of a universal health scheme on the lines of the Swasthya Sathi…
Kolkata: The West Bengal School Service Commission on Saturday uploaded scanned copies of all 22 lakh OMR sheets from the 2016 state-level selection test for assistant teachers at secondary and higher secondary level — retrieved from the CBI — irrespective of whether candidates were appointed, waitlisted or disqualified.The upload fulfils a long-standing demand of teachers…
Kolkata: The investigation into the murder of Chandranath Rath, personal assistant to Suvendu Adhikari, has expanded into Uttar Pradesh, with a Bengal SIT-CID team pursuing technical leads in Badaun and Sambhal.The team reached Badaun late Friday night after mobile call detail records and location data pointed to suspects in the Gunnaur area, now part of…
Kolkata: Trinamool on Saturday announced the name of octogenarian MLA Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay as its leader of the opposition in the Bengal assembly.Chattopadhyay, one of the close associates of Mamata Banerjee since TMC’s formation in 1998, has emerged as the only MLA in the state who is set to serve his 10th consecutive term. He won…
Kolkata: Forty-eight hours after he was relieved by the EC as the special observer on May 7, retired IAS officer Subrata Gupta was on Saturday appointed adviser to chief minister Suvendu Adhikari. The appointment order came within hours after Adhikari took oath as CM at a ceremony at Brigade Parade Grounds.The state also appointed IAS…
Kolkata: The hallowed halls of the Bengal Legislative Assembly witnessed a symbolic and literal power shift on Saturday. In a move that local observers are calling the ultimate ‘Kissa Kursi Ka’, the furniture that once defined the previous administration was unceremoniously replaced to make way for the new order.The most striking change occurred in the…
Kolkata: With Suvendu Adhikari being sworn in as the ninth chief minister — also the first CM of Bengal under BJP, the change of power in the state was officially updated in his social media bio on Saturday. Amid the saffron wave, the words “chief minister” debuted in the bio of Suvendu Adhikari on his…
Kolkata: Hours after Suvendu Adhikari took oath as Bengal’s new chief minister on Saturday, security around his residence in Chinar Park was dramatically intensified, transforming the once-quiet residential stretch into a tightly guarded high-security zone. Till Friday, there was no visible security deployment outside Utthaan-II Resident Society at 167/4, Chinar Park. But from Saturday morning,…
Bongaon: Ashok Kirtania, the two-time Bongaon Uttar (North) MLA, inducted into the Bengal cabinet, is the only minister from the Matua community who is not a member of the Thakurbari household. From the Thakurbari family, Union minister of state Shantanu Thakur’s wife, Soma, and brother, Subrata, are both BJP MLAs.Ahalya Kirtania, his mother, broke down…
Kolkata: Kolkata airport has witnessed an unprecedented number of flights in just over a fortnight starting from the election campaign hitting a fever pitch between the first and second phase of elections in Bengal and Saturday’s oath-taking ceremony that was attended by the Prime Minister, home minister, defence minister and chief ministers of several BJP-ruled…
