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West Bengal

Waterways to Success

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.

800 companies of CAPF may be deployed for phase 2

The second phase will see polling in 30 assembly constituencies spread across four districts namely Bankura, West Midnapore, East Midnapore and South 24 Parganas. Attention, however, will be on Nandigram, where chief minister Mamata Banerjee faces her former lieutenant Suvendu Adhikari.