Senior BJP leader and Member of Parliament Jyotirmoy Singh Mahato, a member of the Parliamentary Committee for home affairs, has written today to West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, urging her to increase the monthly assistance under the Lakshmir Bhandar scheme to Rs 2,000.
Visibly upset, BJP’s Siliguri MLA Sankar Ghosh, who is also the chief whip of the Opposition in the state Assembly, expressed frustration over his inability to utilise the Bidhayak Fund (MLA fund) for local area development.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee today issued a stern warning against certain sections of the police and civil administration, saying that they are taking bribes and the blame is falling on Trinamul Congress leaders.
A lady sub-inspector, Nasrin Sultana, the officer in-charge of Rupnarayanpur police outpost has become the first woman to become the officer in-charge of a police station of Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC) since its formation in September 2011.
The Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) has decided to suspend the supply of drinking water in its area for two days in order to connect pipelines between the old and the new ‘alternative permanent’ well of the existing water treatment plant at Fulbari.
Vast areas in the city were inundated following torrential rain which hit Kolkata this morning as a fallout of the cyclonic storm Dana which made a landfall between Bhitorkonika and Dhamra in Odisha early today.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, on Tuesday, appealed to the Bangladesh government to release 84 fishermen from the state
Trinamul Congress spokesperson Debangshu Bhattacharya has sparked a huge controversy, barely 24 hours before the meeting of junior doctors with CM Mamata Banerjee by equating them with Maoists in Katwa of East Burdwan district.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee today welcomed Centre’s decision to withdraw GST on Life and health insurance, announced today.
CM said the state government will hold elections of the college unions by March 2025 and requested the junior doctors to withdraw their fast unto death.
