The West Bengal is bracing for intense rainfall and stormy conditions as the southwest monsoon inches closer to full arrival in the region.
A seven-member medical board has been constituted by the authorities of the private hospital in South Kolkata where the former Calcutta High Court judge and BJP MP from West Bengal’s Tamluk Constituency, Abhijit Gangopadhyay, was admitted late Saturday night with abdominal pain.
The counsels for both the petitioners and the state government submitted their closing remarks before the single-judge Bench of Justice Amrita Sinha, who then reserved the judgment.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday, urged the West Bengal State Election Commission to bar deployment of state police during the upcoming Kaliganj Assembly bypoll scheduled for 19 June, alleging political bias and voter intimidation by the forces.
P B Salim, chairman of the West Bengal Power Development Corporation Limited (WBPDCL), visited the Deucha Pachami coal mining project in Birbhum district on Wednesday to inspect the ongoing excavation work.
The IMD anticipated that the heat wave would last till 19 April in Kolkata and many districts of south Bengal.
The centre has been set up at the initiative of Hiren Sigha Roy, a non-resident Indian, who stays in England.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday arrested Trinamul Congress MLA Jiban Krishna Saha in the West Bengal teachers' recruitment scam case after 66 hours of marathon quizzing, sources in the agency confirmed.
He met the teachers there and delivered a brief speech on the spot. He also reportedly spoke to students of the university. Students from the SFI union submitted a deputation to the governor.
Abhishek Banerjee urged the people to gherao local and state BJP leaders and ask them to answer why the dues of West Bengal worth more than Rs 1 lakh crore have not been cleared
