Kolkata,4th May : To commemorate the 150th Birthday Celebration of Rabindranath Tagore, Ministry of Culture, Government of India has responded to Visva-Bharati’s proposal to bring out the four volume Rabindra Chitrabali by granting the first installment of the budgeted amount. Visva-Bharati has also received positive feedback on its other proposals in connection with the year-long […]
Category Archives: West Bengal
Subrata Mukherjee rejected Congress for TMC
Kolkata, 4th May : Sparking a spree of speculations, former city mayor and Congress state working president Subrata Mukherjee announced on Tuesday that he will be formally leaving the Congress and joining the Trinamool Congress on Wednesday, ahead of the municipal elections. However, Mukherjee said he will reveal the reasons behind his decisions on Wednesday. […]
Is Congress CPI(M) agent?
Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee says, “If we have to bow our heads, we will bow before the people. Not before a fly or a CPM agent.” “Up to 30th May you wait my friend. Congress will prove its substantial presence and support of the people in Bengal and Calcutta,” Bhuniya adds. Trinamool may just have […]
Land to the poor
Kolkata: The West Bengal government is planning to distribute for free at least 200,000 acres of state-owned land among underprivileged people in a bid to regain the political support it lost after the forcible acquisition of land for industrial projects. Gaining favour: A file photo of the Nano unit in Singur that Tata Motors had […]
A woman & a baby killed in BSF firing
Coochbehar, 4th May: A woman and a baby were killed while three people were critically injured today following firing by the BSF at Balavut border area near Toofanganj in this district, as the security personnel tried to control an unruly mob. Superintendent of Police, Coochbehar, Kalyan Banerjee told that a woman tried to cross the […]
“They might be a big party in Delhi but in West Bengal we are a bigger political party,” – Mamata Banerjee
Kolkata, 2nd May : Trinamool Congress chief and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Sunday accused the Congress of acting as agents of the Communist Party. Acoording to Mamata Banerjee, “We showed a lot of flexibility. But from the beginning they started saying that they will not share seats in Murshidabad and other parts of north Bengal. […]
Nine killed & eight injured in thundershowers
Kolkata, 3rd May : Lightning strikes killed seven people and injured eight others, while two persons were electrocuted during thundershowers in different parts of the state last night. Sources today said two persons – identified as Archana Manna (19) and Lakhsmi Kotal (45) – were killed when lightning struck them at Daspur in West Midnapore […]
Alleged Maoists killed a villager
Jhargram, 3rdMay : The bullet-ridden body of a local rice mill worker was found on a road in Jamda area of Jhargram town this morning, SP, West Midnapore, said. The fatality, Ram Mandi, accustomed to lecture against Maoist philosophy in the area. Fourteen to fifteen suspected Maoists broke the door of Mandi’s house last night […]
Flying mammals returned to Badurtala
Barasat, 1st May: The ecologists expressed shock over a recent news of deaths of a few thousands of bats due to hot weather condition in Asansol in West Bengal, while on the other thousands of such flying mammals were saved by the inhabitants of a remote village Patsabdalpur in North 24 Parganas by as long […]
May Day – The ‘Labor Day’
Kolkata, 1st May: A huge number of workers here celebrated the ‘Labor Day’ on Saturday by demonstrating for their rights on the streets of Kolkata. Various labor organizations and trade unions marked this day, also known as May Day or International Workers’ Day, by raising slogans for labor rights to prevent retrenchment and improve working […]