Bhoot Chaturdashi shows Bengal’s spooky side: State’s own halloween
Bhoot Chaturdashi, Bengal’s version of Halloween, honors ancestors and wards off spirits with 14 diyas and traditions of protection, purity, and storytelling.
Bhoot Chaturdashi, Bengal’s version of Halloween, honors ancestors and wards off spirits with 14 diyas and traditions of protection, purity, and storytelling.
Elections in West Bengal have been bloody affairs. Every election is routinely marred by bloodshed as political rivalry regularly turns violent.
Hardly couple of days after its formation on Saturday afternoon the West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Association (WBJDA) on Monday wrote to the chief secretary (CS) Manoj Pant
Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari has said that the BJP is no longer with the agitation programme of the junior doctors, West Bengal Junior Doctors' Front.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday that the "state-sponsored" infiltration and crime against women in West Bengal will be stopped only if the BJP comes to power in the state in the 2026 Assembly elections.
PM Modi asserted that Guru Rabindranath Tagore had not envisioned the Visva Bharati University as one of the typical educational institutions.
Few women breached the barricades and demonstrated in front of Amit Shah with black flags during his rally on Thursday to kick off 'Parivartan Yatra'
Amit Shah was also seen invoking the ongoing protests by the para teachers, who had recently demonstrated near Mamata Banerjee's residence for a salary hike.
Flagging-off goods train on Manigram-Nimtita newly electrified section under Eastern Railway virtually, he said, “West Bengal is lagging behind in terms of development and progress. We took up development projects in Bengal but many are stuck at different levels, largely due to land acquisition problems. We have projects in West Bengal that were approved years ago but still haven’t seen the light of day. This can be resolved if the state government would cooperate with Railways.”
Narendra Modi will visit Bengal on February 22 and address rallies at a ground in Chinsuriah and at another one near the closed Dunlop factory in Hooghly.
