BJP, TMC get drawn into Delhi poll campaigns
In the run-up to the crucial Delhi elections, central BJP leadership has summoned key leaders from Bengal to strengthen their campaign.
In the run-up to the crucial Delhi elections, central BJP leadership has summoned key leaders from Bengal to strengthen their campaign.
In a significant political development, former MP and Union minister of state John Barla joined chief minister Mamata Banerjee's official programme at Subhasini tea plantation in Alipurduar today, sharing the dais with her.
Sources have told IANS on Sunday that Easwaran sustained the fracture while playing a club match in the CAB league and that the recovery time is currently at a minimum of three weeks.
Residents of Guruguria village in Maipith, Kultali, are living in fear after a Royal Bengal Tiger was spotted in the area on Saturday night.
The TBITA secretary Rana Dey echoed these concerns, emphasising the need for strategic interventions to address the mounting challenges.
Initially, the government had an estimate that nearly 2 crore beneficiaries will register for ‘Lakshmir Bhandar' project but so far, the government has received 1.63 crore applications of which 1.52 crore have been approved. Nearly 7 lakh applications have been rejected. The government has spent more than Rs 800 crore on the project and going by the figure the finance department estimates that the state government will have to cough up another Rs 5,600 crore which might, in turn, lead to a staggering figure in a full financial year.
Though Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had claimed that there was no incident of post-poll violence in the state, an NHRC report has said that there were several cases of rape and murder after the announcement of Assembly election results in 2021.
"This Capex heavy Budget with 35.4 per cent additional capital outlay is a futuristic Budget for promoting inclusive development and has been aptly coined as Budget for the Amrit Kaal of India. Though there have been no specific steps like increasing tax exemption limits against home loan principal or interest, this Budget will spur real estate growth in the long term,"
The Governor's statement comes at a time when the Trinamool is mulling to move a "substantive motion" in the Parliament during the upcoming Budget Session against his "interference" in the running of the state. The ruling party might demand for the removal of the Governor in the Parliament.
"I am sorry to tell you that in West Bengal a voter does not have that freedom. It is totally missing. We have seen post-poll violence of unprecedented level for those who dared to vote according to their right had to pay price with their life. Postpoll violence of that gravity - - arson, loot, rape, killings -- unheard of. We were put to shame before national and global community..."
