New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) The government on Tuesday announced to integrate Central scientific and innovation schemes with educational institutions in West Bengal that would help create a stronger pipeline for innovation, scientific learning and research-oriented talent development among the youth.Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology, Dr Jitendra Singh, held an extensive meeting with West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari in Kolkata.It was decided in the mee…
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Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) A single-judge vacation bench of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday withdrew the interim protection against any coercive action, including arrest, granted earlier to Jahangir Khan, the Trinamool Congress candidate in Falta Assembly constituency, by a regular single-judge bench. Last week, Calcutta High Court’s regular single-judge bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharya granted interim protection to Khan till May 24, the day the results for the repolling in Falta were decl…
Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) Days after senior MP, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, resigned as Trinamool’s Barasat organisational district president, she attended Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari’s administrative meeting on Tuesday, sparking speculation about her next move. Not only Dastidar, but three Trinamool MLAs from North 24 Parganas district were also present at the administrative meeting at Kalyani in Nadia district.Kakoli attended the meeting with the administrative officers of North 24 Parganas, Nadia…
Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) The state government has provided financial assistance of Rs 4 lakh to the family of a child who died after a light from a lamp post fell on her in Hastings area of central Kolkata, said government officials on Tuesday.On the instructions of Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, Maniktala BJP MLA Tapas Roy handed over a cheque of Rs 4 lakh to the deceased’s father S.K. Feroz on Monday night. Behala Paschim MLA Indranil Khan and police officials were present there.The six-year-o…
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) The new Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled West Bengal government on Monday took an in-principle decision to implement the state’s crucial flood control-cum-drainage project, popularly known as the “Ghatal Master Plan”, jointly with the Union government, with the expenditure to be shared equally between the Centre and the state.The project had long remained stalled because of the reluctance of the previous Trinamool Congress-ruled and Ma…
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI), on Monday, announced the appointment of Neelam Meena, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the West Bengal cadre of the 1998 batch, as the new Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal. The erstwhile CEO of West Bengal, Manoj Kumar Agarwal, is currently the state’s Chief Secretary.He was appointed to that position soon after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led new state Cabinet under the leadership of the state’s n…
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday gave a patient hearing to an elderly couple who had been cheated by the recently arrested land mafia-promoters Biswajit Poddar a.k.a Sona Papu and Joy Kamdar, and assured them of his personal intervention to resolve the matter.The Chief Minister interacted with people and listened to their grievances at his pre-announced ‘Janatar Darbare (People’s Court)’ session.Probir Mukhopadhyay and his wife, both senior citizens …
Kolkata, May 24 (IANS) Three weeks after the Assembly election results, former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday once again alleged that the Trinamool Congress did not lose the West Bengal Assembly elections and claimed that the Election Commission helped the BJP secure victory in the state. She also alleged that she was defeated “by force” in the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency.Speaking on the day the results of the Falta Assembly by-election were declared, the Trinamool Congress su…
Kolkata, May 24 (IANS) Following the BJP’s victory in the Falta Assembly bypoll, West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday claimed that the “Diamond Harbour model” associated with Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee had failed politically. As soon as the election results became clear, Adhikari launched a sharp attack on the ruling Trinamool Congress.The Falta Assembly constituency, which falls under the Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha seat, had long been con…
Kolkata, May 24 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday celebrated what it described as the “collapse” of the Trinamool Congress’ “Diamond Harbour Model” as its candidate from the Falta Assembly constituency, Debangshu Panda, was seen leading after 19 rounds of counting had been completed in the repoll process. Officials said that in total, there are 21 rounds of counting, and after the completion of the 19th round, the BJP candidate had secured 1,37,473 votes.The party attributed the …