New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s choice of Malda district to launch his party’s campaign on Tuesday ahead of the 2026 Assembly election in West Bengal reflects an attempt at a toehold where the ground has fast been eroding under its feet since over a decade. Malda is crucial for the Congress, once its bastion, which has since witnessed shifting political equations over the years. That shift, hopes the Congress, can be turned somewhat, riding on the work of party stal…
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New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) India’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are rapidly transitioning into global contenders, due to India’s free trade agreements (FTAs) and their focus on digital transformation, said Khagen Murmu, Member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on MSMEs, on Thursday.At a ‘Global SME Conclave’ organised by ASSOCHAM, Murmu highlighted the transformative impact of FTAs with the UAE and Australia, as well as ongoing engagements with the European Union (EU).“These a…
Kolkata, March 7 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Parivartan Yatra is continuing to receive a strong response from people in West Bengal, as party leaders accuse the Trinamool Congress government of corruption, misgovernance and administrative failures.At a Parivartan Yatra programme in the Midnapore division of West Midnapore district, BJP state president Samik Bhattacharya addressed the gathering and sharply criticised the state government.He stated that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee…
Kolkata, Feb 2 (IANS) A division bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Monday, gave clear instructions to both West Bengal Police and Kolkata Police to ensure absolute security for public political programmes of elected representatives from the opposition parties.The Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari approached the Calcutta High Court in October last year seeking the court’s intervention for a permanent solution to ensure that the public political programm…
Kolkata, Jan 28 (IANS) Aruna Mardi, the first wife of West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) two-time Lok Sabha MP and state tribal front president Khagen Murmu, joined the Trinamool Congress in Kolkata on Wednesday. Senior Trinamool Congress leader and State Education Minister Bratya Basu and State Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Forests, Birbaha Hansda, handed Aruna Mardi the Trinamool flag at the party’s headquarters.During the joining ceremony, Bratya Basu introduced the new T…
Kolkata, Jan 7 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday named 34 members of the party’s new state committee in West Bengal.Party Rajya Sabha member, Samik Bhattacharya, was already elected as the state president of West Bengal last year.On Wednesday, the 34 members of the new state committee were named.The 34 new names included 12 vice-presidents, five general secretaries, 12 secretaries, one treasurer, two joint treasurers, one office secretary, and one joint office secretary.At the…
New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) In the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha election, the Trinamool Congress camp went through weeks of uncertainty amidst speculations over the absence of their Rajya Sabha MP Mausam Benazir Noor, the well-known face of Malda carrying the legacy of Bengal’s legendary Congress leader Abu Barkat Ghani Khan Chaudhury. There was a sigh of relief when she returned well ahead of the poll scheduled for the two Malda Lok Sabha constituencies.She explained that while she was in Delhi t…
Kolkata, Jan 3 (IANS) Mausam Benazir Noor, the current Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member and former two-time Congress Lok Sabha member from Maldaha (Uttar) constituency in minority-dominated Malda district of West Bengal, on Saturday, had joined India’s oldest national party again. She returned to the grand old party at the All India Congress Committee’s (AICC) headquarters in New Delhi in the presence of Congress General Secretary (Communications) Jairam Ramesh, the party’s central coordina…