New Delhi, Jan 16 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s foundation‑stone laying ceremony for a sprawling Mahakal temple complex in Siliguri on Friday, is being seen as part of an attempt to change her ‘minority appeasement’ tag before the upcoming state Assembly elections. The Trinamool Congress supremo has long been accused of implementing welfare schemes and protections that critics claimed disproportionately benefited Muslims. She has thus been targeted, especially by the stat…
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Guwahati, Jan 15 (IANS) Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Indian Railways has emerged as a key driver of infrastructure-led growth across Eastern and Northeastern India, significantly improving connectivity and boosting economic development, officials said on Thursday. Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) Kapinjal Kishore Sharma said that over the last decade, the Railway landscape of West Bengal has undergone a decisive and visible transform…
Kolkata, Jan 8 (IANS) Crucial documents related to Special Intensive Revision (SIR) were gutted as fire broke out at the SDO office in West Bengal’s Siliguri district.According to the police, a fire suddenly broke out at the Sub-Divisional Officer (SDO) office on Hill Cart Road in Mallaguri early on Thursday.As a result of the fire, two rooms of the SDO office have been completely gutted.Several computers and government documents kept in the two rooms have also been destroyed. However, due to th…
Kolkata, Jan 5 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Kolkata Zonal Office, has conducted search operations at nine locations across Delhi, Mumbai, Surat, Lucknow and Varanasi in connection with an illegal online betting and gambling case under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.According to a statement issued by the central agency on Monday, the premises searched are linked to social media influencer and YouTuber Anurag Dwivedi, as well as various online …
Kolkata, Jan 1 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has now decided to apply its own independent mechanism for identifying housing complexes with multiple towers for setting up polling booths for the forthcoming Assembly elections in the state.The ECI has decided the matter amid the failure of the District Magistrates (DMs), also the District Electoral Officers (DEOs), to identify housing complexes with 300 voters or above for setting up the polling booth, sources in the office of the C…
New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s political strategy, long been accused of being weighed towards minority appeasement with welfare schemes and protections that critics say disproportionately benefit Muslims, now appears to be veering towards building temples. When asked to comment on Tuesday, Home Minister Amit Shah, currently on a trip to the state, welcomed her efforts, quipping “but it’s too late” perhaps in reference to the upcoming Assembly electi…
Kolkata, Dec 29 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday laid the foundation stone for Durga Angan, the Goddess Durga temple at New Town on the northern outskirts of Kolkata. She also announced that the stone-laying ceremony of the Mahakal (Lord Shiva) temple at Siliguri in Darjeeling district will be held in the second week of next month.“Today, the foundation stone for the Durga Angan has been laid, and the work for the construction of the same will start now. In the secon…
Kolkata, Dec 27 (IANS) Three people were killed in a road accident caused by dense fog in West Bengal’s Alipurduar district on Saturday. According to the police, the incident occurred due to a head-on collision between a small car and a 12-wheeler trailer. After the accident, the trailer fell into a ditch beside the road.Police said that a small car was travelling towards Siliguri in north Bengal. The trailer was coming from the opposite direction.The accident took place in the Garam Basati area…