Mamata Banerjee during her Facebook address Kolkata: Former CM Mamata Banerjee on Saturday formally took over the presidentship of the beleaguered party after one-time confidante Chandrima Bhattacharya, whom she appointed state president barely a month ago, quit all party posts.Banerjee, in a 28-minute address on Facebook, accused BJP of engineering desertions and defections through pressure…
Sixteen people were killed in the Taratala warehouse collapse Kolkata: All six accused – including former Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) Officer on Special Duty (OSD) Kalicharan Banerjee – were remanded to police custody till July 8 in connection with the collapse of an under-construction warehouse at Taratala that claimed 16 lives and left 17 others…
200 personnel would be recruited for disaster response teams, said CM Suvendu Adhikari at an event to felicitate Taratala Kolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday announced Rs 200 crore to acquire modern rescue equipment, aimed at a major overhaul of the govt’s disaster response system. He also unveiled a plan to recruit and train…
Kolkata: Six-time BJP councillor and former deputy mayor Meena Devi Purohit has called for renaming central Kolkata’s Mohammad Ali Park as Mahabali Park.. The park has been the venue for a famous Durga Puja for over half a century.Hoardings with the name of the puja changed to Shree Mahabali Park Durgotsav Samity have already come…
Will collect 3x cost for damage to public property: CMKolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday said the state will crack down on those who damage public property by realising three times the amount to compensate the loss.Speaking at a felicitation event organised by Alipore Nagarik Samity, Adhikari said the West Bengal Maintenance of Public Order…
Striped hyena in the industrial landscape of West Burdwan Striped hyena in industrial landscape of West Burdwan Kolkata: After elephant, tiger and wolf corridors, researchers have now unearthed two hyena movement corridors in south Bengal — one inter-state connecting the population of mining belt of West Burdwan to the larger source population of neighbouring Jharkhand…
Kolkata: A departmental probe has been launched into a Rs 1 crore canteen bill incurred by the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education during the last financial year. The expenditure coincided with the tenure of former council secretary Priyadarshini Mallick.Priyadarshini, daughter of former minister Jyotipriya Mallick, was removed from her post on May 15…
LS Speaker Om Birla addresses the second day of the orientation session for MLAs in the Bengal assembly on Saturday Kolkata: Newly elected MLAs must remember that they have been entrusted with a great responsibility, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Bengal governor RN Ravi said in the assembly on the second day of the…
Kharagpur: IIT Kharagpur will play a key role in the task force being set up by the state higher education department to implement the National Education Policy 2020, higher education minister Jagannath Chattopadhyay said at the institute’s 72nd convocation on Saturday. The event coincided with the institute’s platinum jubilee year.“A NEP implementation task force is…
Asit Biswas and Pramila Ray Biswas at CM Suvendu Adhikari’s ‘Janatar Darbar’ on Saturday Kolkata: Family members of Barun Biswas, the school teacher who was murdered in 2012 for raising his voice against rapes in Sutia, North 24 Parganas, met CM Suvendu Adhikari at his ‘Janatar Darbar’ on Saturday, seeking justice for the killing and…
