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…
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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…
Kolkata, Jan 31 (IANS) A political slugfest has surfaced in West Bengal over the appointment of former additional director general (South Bengal), Supratim Sarkar as the new Commissioner of Kolkata Police, which was officially announced by the West Bengal Police Directorate on Friday.Top BJP leaders from West Bengal claimed that Sarkar was gifted with the post by the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government for managing the tension at Sandeshkhali, a conglomeration of islands in North 24 Parga…
New Delhi, Jan 26 (IANS) In poll-bound West Bengal, the controversy over the newly-launched Vande Bharat Sleeper Express serving “vegetarian only” meals fails to die even after Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw himself has been quoted as saying that this is just a temporary arrangement. The state’s ruling Trinamool Congress had raised the issue on public platforms, tying it to other political issues – including the language controversy and alleged manipulations of electoral rolls – im…
New Delhi, Jan 22 (IANS) The government on Thursday said the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the World Economic Forum (WEF) to collaborate on strengthening India’s skills and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) ecosystem.MSDE will collaborate with the WEF to launch and implement a Skills Accelerator in India, a multistakeholder platform aimed at identifying, scaling, and accelerating innovative sol…
Kolkata, Jan 20 (IANS) The West Bengal unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday announced the names of its various panel chiefs for the state, which includes two sitting Lok Sabha members.According to the list issued by BJP’s state president and the party’s Rajya Sabha member, Samik Bhattacharya, the party’s two-time Lok Sabha member from Bishunupur constituency in Bankura district, Saumitra Khan, has been named as the in-charge of the party’s Yuva Morcha (youth wing) in the state…
Kolkata, Jan 19 (IANS) Tension broke out at the office of the sub-divisional officer (headquarters) in Hooghly district of West Bengal on Monday after a group of Trinamool Congress activists, led by the party’s legislator from Chinsurah Assembly constituency Asit Majumdar, reached the premises while hearings on claims and objections on the draft voters’ list were being held.It was reported that some of the ruling party activists even destroyed some Form-7 applications (for deletion of names of…