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.
She made this claim a day after Union Home Minister Amit Shah held a night-long meeting with the state BJP leaders to troubleshoot the candidate selection jinx.
The CBI raids included the premises of Amit Agarwal, a close aide of key accused Anup Majhi aka Lala in connection with the illegal coal smuggling case.
Mamata Banerjee is contesting the upcoming West Bengal Assembly polls from Nandigram from where the BJP has fielded Suvendu Adhikari.
Unexpectedly, former KMC mayor and BJP's state committee leader Sovan Chatterjee will not fight against his wife Ratna. Instead Tollywood actress Payel Sarkar has been selected as the candidate from Behala East. Sovan was winner from Behala East in earlier Assembly elections.
Paying homage to the 14 villagers of Nandigram who died in police firing on March 14, 2007, Mamata Banerjee declared that nothing will keep her from protecting the democratic rights of the people.
