The state Assembly today passed Clinical Establishments Bill 2025 with an aim to bring transparency and to put a leash on patients’ treatment expenses.
The Trinamul Congress on Tuesday launched a sharp counterattack against BJP MLA and chief whip of the Opposition, Sankar Ghosh, after he raised the issue of alleged eviction of tribal tea growers from forest land in Cooch Behar during a recent session of the state Assembly.
BSF troops under the Raiganj Sector of the North Bengal Frontier apprehended three Bangladeshi nationals—Mohenur Islam, Moriyam Khatun, and Bappi Roy—on Monday while they were attempting to cross the international border illegally from Bangladesh into India.
In a significant crackdown on illegal cross-border infiltration, Krishnaganj police on Tuesday arrested two Bangladeshi nationals and two local agents from a residence in the Nalupur border area. The four were later produced before the District Judge’s court in Krishnagar.
A major shake-up is underway within the youth wing of Bengal’s communist party, with growing indications that Minakshi Mukherjee, the fiery leader who brought the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) into sharp public focus through street mobilisation and mass movements in West Bengal, may soon be stepping down from her post as the state secretary.
The protestors have been continuing their agitations in front of the Acharya Bhawan for more than 30 hours since Monday demanding the WBSSC to release the list of qualified and ineligible candidates in the panel of 2016 when the recruitment tests for the posts of assistant teachers, non-teaching group C and D were held by the commission.
The stalemate over the issue of publishing of the segregated list continued even after the meeting between the WBSSC chairman and six-member representatives of the agitating teachers at the commission’s office.
Sealdah Division of the Eastern Railway has undertaken the task of maintenance of passenger loops through machines to improve track parameter standards.
Three residents of West Bengal were among those killed in a brutal terror attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir. Two of the deceased were central government officials.
CM Mamata Banerjee inaugurated Goaltore Solar Power Plant and unveiled over 300 new projects in West Midnapore
