Kolkata, June 19 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first programme in West Bengal, when he arrives in the state on Saturday will be at Tarakeswar in the Hooghly district, about 62 km from Kolkata. But, what is so important about Tarakeswar that the Prime Minister has decided to celebrate ‘Paschimbanga Divas’ (West Bengal Day) there? For the uninitiated, it was at Tarakeswar that a meeting of the Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha was held on April 15, 1947, authorising Bharatiya Jana Sangh foun…
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New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release over Rs 18,880 crore directly into the accounts of more than 9.44 lakh farmers across the country as the 23rd instalment of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme on Saturday, at a function to be held at Tarakeswar in West Bengal’s Hooghly district, according to an official statement issued on Thursday.There are over 2.18 crore women farmers among the beneficiaries of the 23rd instalment of the PM-KISAN scheme…