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.
The third phase of elections will be held for 31 seats in parts of rural Howrah, the Sunderban region, the Diamond Harbour and Baruipur belts in the South 24 Parganas, and parts of the Hooghly district
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had on Thursday asked Banerjee to clarify whether there is truth in the "rumours" that she was going to file the nomination for another seat going to the polls in the last phase, maintaining that the TMC chief has admitted defeat in Nandigram.
The BJP will win over 200 seats, Modi said and claimed that TMC and its party supremo will have to account for the deaths of brothers, sisters and sons of Bengal.
With deployment of about 2,200 CAPF personnel, Nandigram people who put up a fierce resistance in 2007 refusing to allow law enforcement personnel inside their territory, today felt safe as they began gathering outside the 355 polling booths when the clock struck 6:30 a.m.
Overall voter turnout at 80.43 p.c till 5 p.m.; sporadic incidents of violence as TMC accuses BJP, Central forces of voter intimidation
