The West Bengal is bracing for intense rainfall and stormy conditions as the southwest monsoon inches closer to full arrival in the region.
A seven-member medical board has been constituted by the authorities of the private hospital in South Kolkata where the former Calcutta High Court judge and BJP MP from West Bengal’s Tamluk Constituency, Abhijit Gangopadhyay, was admitted late Saturday night with abdominal pain.
The counsels for both the petitioners and the state government submitted their closing remarks before the single-judge Bench of Justice Amrita Sinha, who then reserved the judgment.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday, urged the West Bengal State Election Commission to bar deployment of state police during the upcoming Kaliganj Assembly bypoll scheduled for 19 June, alleging political bias and voter intimidation by the forces.
P B Salim, chairman of the West Bengal Power Development Corporation Limited (WBPDCL), visited the Deucha Pachami coal mining project in Birbhum district on Wednesday to inspect the ongoing excavation work.
West Bengal is a state uniquely positioned because it offers many advantages critical to the logistics sector.
The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission (WBCERC), sole body monitoring treatment infrastructure in private hospitals and nursing homes across the state, plans to frame rules to streamline these healthcare facilities allegedly withholding release of dead bodies till relatives of the deceased clear bills.
Tension gripped various districts across West Bengal on Wednesday as large-scale protests erupted over the issue of job losses in the school education sector.
A two-day training programme for 12 electoral registration officer (ERO), 217 booth level officer (BLO) and two district election officer (DEO) from West Bengal commenced on Wednesday by the Election Commission of India (ECI).
He also requested the President to take necessary steps to ensure that candidates who were selected through fair means are allowed to continue.
