Cold storage association demands storage rent rise from govt
West Bengal Cold Storage Association held their 60th annual general meeting on Wednesday.
West Bengal Cold Storage Association held their 60th annual general meeting on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a key meeting of chief ministers of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA)-ruled states in Delhi.
President of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) Ramanuj Gangopadhyay, expressed deep concern today over students bringing mobile phones and electronic devices into examination halls despite repeated warnings.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday emphasised the need for better planning and management for pilgrims, as she expressed her condolences over the loss of 18 lives in a tragic stampede at New Delhi railway station on Saturday night.
Being a state with a great network of rivers and expansive water bodies, West Bengal boasts of one of the longest navigable waterway networks in the country, with approximately 4,593 kilometers of rivers and canals, of which 97 per cent are navigable.
“Polls were overall peaceful and Covid protocols were completely enforced. There were 742 preventive arrests of which 11 arrests were in connection to violation of section 144. While 57 bombs were recovered though there were no incidents of bombing. A total of 1146 complaints were lodged in this phase,” said CEO Ariz Aftab at a press con ference today.
Polling is being held for 34 assembly seats of five districts -- Kolkata, Burdwan, South Dinajpur, Malda and Murshidabad, in the seventh and second last phase of West Bengal Assembly elections.
Just as attendance has been checked at religious shrines ~ even for weddings ~ so too could it have been controlled for political rallies coupled with strict enforcement of distancing outside polling booths.
According to data available with the CEO's office as many as 89 show cause notices had been served on erring leaders of various political parties responsible for organising meetings throwing Covid norms imposing a limit of 500 people at such meetings to the winds.
According to experts in Siliguri, the new triple mutant variant, which is being called the Bengal variant, may lead to a more rapid disease transmission in the coming weeks, especially among young people below the age of 50 in the state, which is currently witnessing Assembly elections.
