Renowned poet Arun Chakraborty passes away
One of the renowned poets of Bengal, Arun Chakraborty, the composer of the famous poetic presentation Lal Pharir Deshe, suffered a cardiac arrest and passed away at his Chinsurah farm side road house.
One of the renowned poets of Bengal, Arun Chakraborty, the composer of the famous poetic presentation Lal Pharir Deshe, suffered a cardiac arrest and passed away at his Chinsurah farm side road house.
After having the state's first blue road, East Burdwan now has a green road, a pioneering effort in Bengal, which is now set to be opened for public use.
Persons who are efficient and have a good public image will be brought in the leadership role by the Trinamul Congress (TMC) and the ones tainted will be dropped, sources said close to the ruling party in Bengal.
In a first-of-its-kind initiative, Bangladesh has returned smuggled cattle to India, marking a significant step toward fostering stronger bilateral ties and addressing border crimes along the north Bengal frontier.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee urged people to uphold the tradition and legacy of long-cherished communal peace, harmony and tradition in Bengal.
The government, however, has recommended that people should continue wearing of masks, practise hand hygiene and sanitation of premises for the time being.
Apart from a few arrests, the “benching” of the local police station’s officer-in-charge and the “shunting” of Rampurhat’s Sub-Divisional Police Officer, no other action appears to have been taken even four days after the macabre tragedy. There has been much too much of tirades and verbal demarches; a spirited response from the Chief Minister; and far too little of substantive action on the ground.
The date of polling will be April 12 and the votes will be counted on April 16, Saturday.
With elections at every level of the social and administrative structure -- from a remote village upto state-level -- politics and violence to control this power equation became an integral part of the social and administrative mechanism.
Flood management and restoration schemes are imperative to save lives and livelihood. Not wholly unrelated are the fragile embankments that tend to break up during heavy rain and high tides. Perhaps it is cause for alarm that over the past two decades, an estimated 2,800 hectares of fertile land had been washed away by the river; the damage to properties, public and private, amounted to Rs 1,000 crore.
