As feared by the nephew that his aunty has been poisoned to death, the post-mortem report of Deben Mahato Medical College Hospital in Purulia has confirmed that Congress councillor of Jhalda Municipality Purnima Kandu has died due to poisoning.
On the directives of the West Bengal government, two teams from Purulia have rushed to Chakradharpur in neighbouring Jharkhand to look after the passengers of the state at wee hours today.
The Election Commission of India has directed the state Chief Secretary, B.P.Gopalika to remove the present Police superintendent of Purulia, Abhijit Banerjee by 10 AM tomorrow and submit names of three IPS officers to the ECI.
Banerjee, who is also the chairperson of the Global Advisory Board on the Covid-19 pandemic set up by the West Bengal government, said while speaking on the continuous increase in cess for the last seven years, "The government has a fiscal problem. This is a government that has more faith in balancing the budget than realising the actual problem. I have been in favour of more free-spending policies. This (increase of cess) is because of that."
This is the second video talk on the the economic fallout of the Coronavirus crisis organised by Rahul Gandhi. On April 30, he had a conversation with Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan.
The government claims that it wants to tackle fuel smuggling and give cash payments to the poorest three-quarters of Iran’s 80 million population.
Addressing the House on the motion to congratulate Nobel laureate Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, the speaker said that he had agreed to the demand of Partha Chatterjee, who requested for the preservation of at least three books of the laureate in the House library.
We can’t stop any projects from Kanyashree to Sabujsathi. We have to continue with Sarva Siksha Abhiyan. We cannot act like the Centre, by making tall promises before elections and then forgetting to implement those afterwards... Although the Centre and the state has different salary structures we try to give you (teachers and government employees) whatever we can. Have faith in us. We have to repay Rs 50,000 crore debt this year: Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister.
Dev Sen gifted her book titled Bhalobashar Baranda to Banerjee, who had some refreshments at her residence.
Abhijit Banerjee, his wife Esther Duflo, both working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Harvard University professor Michael Kremer jointly won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize on 14 October “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
