Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday announced an infrastructure and security overhaul and upgrade blueprint for the coastal areas of Digha, Mandarmani, Tajpur, Shankarpur and Udaypur.Adhikari said that the existing Rs 10 tourist subscription fee will be withdrawn from July 1. “I feel that taking Rs 10 from those who are paying income-tax and GST…
Kolkata: With Trinamool’s rebel MPs announcing that their bloc would merge with the Tripura-based Nationalist Citizens’ Party of India (NCPI), BJP on Sunday said the decision would put all speculation to rest.While unease was brewing in BJP over the fate of the rebels, Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya and Union minister and Bongaon MP Shantanu…
New Delhi/Kolkata: Twenty rebel Trinamool MPs informed Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Sunday that they will merge with a relatively unknown party from Tripura— Nationalist Citizens’ Party of India (NCPI) — and urged him to allot them a separate sitting block in Lok Sabha along with the NDA parties.The merger will make NCPI, whose…
Agartala: The only Bengal link of the Nationalist Citizens’ Party of India (NCPI), oddly, is its Howrah address. Interestingly enough, the six-year-old Tripura-based party, registered in Howrah’s Sankrail, is now tipped to be BJP‘s biggest coalition partner with 20 MPs.TDP has 16 MPs in Lok Sabha and JD(U) 12.Formed in 2023, the party’s election symbol…
Kolkata: TMC rebel camp MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar’s son Baidyanath announced on X that he would return all gifts received from TMC chief Mamata Banerjee, including a gold necklace gifted to his wife on their wedding two years ago and a panjabi-pyjama set he got on Durga Puja, triggering trolling on social media. He said…
Kolkata: Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee was questioned by CID for over eight-and-a-half hours at Bhawani Bhawan on Sunday, his second session with the agency in connection with the Signgate investigation. Part of the questioning involved Banerjee being made to sit face-to-face with party colleague and MLA Kunal Ghosh, with investigators posing multiple questions…
Kolkata: Between hope and despair, missed passes and messy moves that produced nothing, Brazil fans had a moment of redemption on Sunday morning — a spectacular solo effort by Vinicius Junior that helped the five-time champions salvage a 1-1 draw in their World Cup opener.The Selecaos failed to make a winning start to their campaign…
Kolkata: A meeting held on Saturday has resolved the ongoing clay supply crisis. Supplies are expected to resume by the middle of next week. It was decided that before extracting soil, the supplier must obtain an NOC from the landowner along with a copy of their Aadhaar card. Furthermore, the exact amount of the soil…
Kolkata: The BJP govt’s flagship outreach programme, Jan Kalyan Shivir, will be launched in Bengal from Monday, with camps offering a range of citizen-centric services, including assistance for Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) applications, Aadhaar enrolment, opening of bank accounts and registration under welfare schemes such as Annapurna Yojana and Ayushman Bharat.Officials said the CAA enrolment…
s Calcutta University (CU) has raised concerns over academic quality following its decision to allow students to progress into the fourth year of their degree programme after securing a minimum of just 30% marks in all papers across the first six semesters. Previously, a minimum of 40% was required to earn an honours degree, failing…
