New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) The Rising Northeast Investors Summit 2025 and its pre-event roadshows have attracted investment interest worth Rs 4.48 lakh crore for the region, Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) Sukanta Majumdar informed the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.The Rising Northeast Investors Summit 2025 was held in Delhi on May 23-24 last year. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the summit on May 23, 2025.Replying to a question in the Lok Sabha, Majumdar said…
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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 28 (IANS) Political reactions intensified in West Bengal on Saturday over the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) issue and recent political developments, with leaders from the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the principal opposition BJP trading sharp remarks while expressing faith in the judiciary.West Bengal Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya said the matter relating to SIR has now moved beyond the political arena and is under judicial scrutiny.”The matter has now moved forw…
Kolkata, Feb 21 (IANS) Former West Bengal Director General of Police (DGP) Rajeev Kumar has sent a legal notice to the Union Minister of State (MoS) for Education, Sukanta Majumdar, for making derogatory remarks against him, state government sources said on Saturday. In the legal notice, former State DGP Kumar has demanded immediate deletion of defamatory video content from all platforms, including social/digital media, and other public domain and a public apology for defamation caused to him.”A…
Kolkata, Feb 20 (IANS) The Supreme Court’s order on Friday directing deployment of serving as well as retired judicial officers to oversee adjudication of claims and objections arising from the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound West Bengal has received mixed reactions from the political parties in the state.Union Minister of State and former president of BJP’s West Bengal unit Sukanta Majumdar said that the Apex Court’s order on Friday is a matter of sha…
New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) Union Minister of State Raksha Khadse, chaired a district-level review meeting in Assam’s Hojai under the initiative of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (MDoNER) to assess the progress of Central Sector Schemes and Centrally-Sponsored Schemes, an official said on Saturday.Khadse took an update on schemes operating across key sectors including health, education, agriculture, infrastructure, financial inclusion, skill development, and basic service del…
Kolkata, Feb 13 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, on Friday congratulated the Prime Minister-designate, Tarique Rahman over the Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s (BNP) emphatic victory in the general elections in the neighbouring country, which was conducted on Thursday, with the results becoming clear on Friday morning.In a statement posted on the wall of her official social media handle, Chief Minister Banerjee also congratulated the people of Bangladesh for their participation …
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) A total of 3,032 mentors have been onboarded across the country by the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) under the National Mission on Mentoring (NMM) for developing skills of school teachers, the Centre told the Lok Sabha on Monday. Minister of State (MoS) for Education, Jayant Chaudhary, said in a written reply that mentors under the NMM are selected by NCTE through a structured process that examines professional excellence, mentoring aptitude, and alignment…
Kolkata, Feb 5 (IANS) The joint forum of state government employees and also Opposition parties in West Bengal on Thursday welcomed the Supreme Court’s verdict on the Dearness Allowance (DA).Bhaskar Ghosh, convenor of the Join Forum of State Government Employees, hailed the verdict, saying it was an outcome of their relentless protest movements, demanding pending DA from the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee government.”It is a victory for all state government employees who have been denied their l…
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) West Bengal electoral list includes Bangladeshi infiltrators, Rohingyas, and fake voters, reiterated state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Samik Bhattacharya on Wednesday, stressing that intruders will be “detected, deleted, and deported”. The Rajya Sabha MP was addressing the media at New Delhi’s party headquarters along with BJP Lok Sabha MP from West Bengal’s Balurghat constituency and Union Minister of State Sukanta Majumdar.Commenting on West Bengal Ch…