State gears up for Tribeni Kumbh fest: Celebration from 10 Feb
The government has directed the Hooghly district administration to take all necessary measures for the shahi snan (royal bath) at Triveni Sangam on 12 January.
The government has directed the Hooghly district administration to take all necessary measures for the shahi snan (royal bath) at Triveni Sangam on 12 January.
Trinamul Congress MP from Diamond Harbour and party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee today lambasted the BJP-led Centre for depriving Bengal deliberately.
Body of a young woman was recovered from the bushes near the Lohar Bridge in New Town today. The police have sent the body for post-mortem.
Even Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) chief executive Anit Thapa has voiced strong opposition to chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s plan to allow 30 per cent of tea plantation land for commercial use under the banner of tea tourism.
A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday morning rejected the admissibility of the petition by the West Bengal government seeking death penalty for Sanjay Roy, the sole convict in the R G Kar rape and murder tragedy.
Sikkim paid homage to its former chief minister, the late Nar Bahadur Bhandari, on the occasion of his 84th birth anniversary with a solemn ceremony held at Samman Bhawan in Gangtok today.
Leader of Opposition in state Assembly Suvendu Adhikari today strongly criticised the ongoing situation in Bangladesh, issuing a stern warning to a group of Bangladeshi nationals allegedly threatening to carve out Indian territory from the Chicken Neck region in north Bengal to form a new Bangladesh.
Keeping in mind protests for the R G Kar incident in different parts of the city, the city police are gearing up to deal with it, in addition to managing the crowd hopping between pandals.
The agitators started their protest at Dorina Crossing at Esplanade till the administration solved their unresolved demands within the stipulated deadline.
The Juvenile Justice Board will prescribe a penalty and jail term for the headmaster arrested on charges of failing to provide juvenile care that caused the death of a student in snakebite in Katwa.
