Bengal stands 3rd in India for attracting foreign tourists
For two consecutive years, West Bengal has registered the third highest number of foreign tourist visits (FTV) in the country.
For two consecutive years, West Bengal has registered the third highest number of foreign tourist visits (FTV) in the country.
The West Bengal Assembly’s Budget Session witnessed high drama on Tuesday as BJP MLAs, led by Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari staged a walkout and protested against Speaker Biman Banerjee’s decision to reject their adjournment motion on alleged communal tensions in the state.
BJP leader Amit Malviya has raised alarm over what he perceives as the deteriorating law and order situation in West Bengal, pointing out a string of recent violent incidents that have left the state's residents in fear.
The virtual meeting convened by All India Trinamool Congress (AITMC) General secretary and the party Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee with the party's district presidents and chairmen on the verification of voters’ list in West Bengal has been postponed by a day.
West Bengal Governor C.V Ananda Bose, on Friday, assured the vice-chancellors of state-run universities to speak to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on the issues of increasing incidents of campus violence in the state.
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.
Bengal has been witnessing a series of protest rallies on various grounds among which education sector has grabbed the limelight, especially after a year of Covid lockdown.
The Opposition parties have refuted her claims and said she was trying to gain sympathy.
