Kolkata, May 11 (IANS) In his first meeting with departmental secretaries of the West Bengal government, the new Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari, on Monday directed the top bureaucrats in the state to focus strictly on eliminating wasteful expenditure to ease pressure on the cash-strapped exchequer inherited by the new government.He also instructed departmental secretaries not to use the tagline “inspired by the Chief Minister” in any state government hoarding, advertisement or plaque, whic…
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Kolkata, May 11 (IANS) The new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in West Bengal, led by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, on Monday announced the portfolio distribution for the five other Cabinet ministers who took oath along with him on May 9, 2026.BJP’s former national vice-president and ex-West Bengal unit chief Dilip Ghosh has been allotted the portfolios of Panchayat Affairs & Rural Development and Animal Husbandry.Ghosh was elected this time from the Kharagpur (Sadar) Assembly con…
Kolkata, May 11 (IANS) Aam Janata Unnayan Party legislator Humayun Kabir on Monday welcomed the decision taken in the first meeting of the new cabinet in West Bengal, led by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, to allocate land to the BSF for the installation of barbed fencing along the currently unfenced international border with Bangladesh within a period of 45 days. “The security of the state and the country is associated with this decision. Now there is a double-engine government in West Be…
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) Amid the gloom and recriminations within West Bengal’s defeated Trinamool Congress, the nomination of veteran leader Sovandeb Chattopadhyay as Leader of the Opposition has stood out as a rare positive development.Widely regarded in political circles as “the right man in the wrong party”, the octogenarian’s elevation has revived discussions about integrity and experience in a party grappling with electoral setback and internal criticism.According to a mid-level Tr…
Kolkata, May 11 (IANS) During the first meeting of the newly formed West Bengal cabinet, presided over by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday, a significant decision was made to allocate land for the installation of barbed fencing at the currently unfenced international border with Bangladesh to the Border Security Force (BSF), within a period of 45 days.Announcing this after the cabinet meeting, CM Adhikari said the promise to hand over land to the BSF within 45 days for the formation of …
Kolkata, May 11 (IANS) Riju Dutta, recently sacked by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) for six years, has claimed that disciplinary action was taken against him because he publicly thanked Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) helping protect his family after they received threats following the West Bengal Assembly elections. Dutta also levelled serious allegations regarding the party’s ticket distribution process and claimed that the political consultancy firm IPAC was effectively “running the show” and “ma…
Kolkata, May 11(IANS) The new government led by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari will be a “West Bengal government” in the true sense and not a “Bharatiya Janata Party government”, BJP’s West Bengal president and Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya said here on Monday.Speaking to media persons while the Chief Minister stood beside him, Bhattacharya said the state government would function independently, with coordination with the party limited to ensuring the smooth implementation of comm…
Kolkata, May 11 (IANS) The three sharpshooters who were arrested in Uttar Pradesh in the Chandranath Rath assassination case will be presented at a district court at Barasat in North 24 Parganas district on Monday.The three were arrested by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the West Bengal Police, which is probing the murder case.Chandranath Rath, the personal assistant of the current West Bengal Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari, was shot dead on May 6 by bike-borne assailants.All three of…
Kolkata, May 11 (IANS) The first meeting of the first Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led West Bengal cabinet, led by the ninth Chief Minister of the state, Suvendu Adhikari, will be held at the current state secretariat at Nabanna in Mandirtala, Howrah district, on Monday.Although the BJP had decided that its ministers would operate from the original state secretariat, the Writers’ Buildings, in central Kolkata, where renovations are taking longer, the new cabinet, including the Chief Minister, …
Kolkata, May 10 (IANS) A day after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Dilip Ghosh took oath as a Minister in the new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in West Bengal, his mother and sister on Sunday appealed the state government to ensure justice to the post-graduate trainee doctor who was raped and murdered in the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in 2024.Speaking to IANS, Ghosh’s sister Subhashini Paria said: “I am hoping that my brother will look after the state, especially…