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.
Dilip Ghosh said that family of Left and Congress workers were given jobs if they died, while more than 130 dead BJP workers didn't get anything.
BJP said it was their way to pray to the goddess to bring a safe environment for education and to ensure jobs for the educated youths in Bengal.
Incidentally, Mithun Chakraborty had visited the RSS headquarters in Nagpur earlier, hinting at his growing association with the Sangh pariwar.
Maidul Islam Midya an activist of DYFI, a CPI-M youth wing, was critically injured during the Left Front March to the secretariat on February 11.
Local BJP cadres claimed that the TMC had threatened the people in the region's Khadipukur Gram Panchayat to not attend the saffron party's event.
