Kolkata, May 9 (IANS) The first BJP-ruled state government in West Bengal led by the state’s first BJP Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari, will begin its journey after the oath ceremony on Saturday with a gift from the Union Jal Shakti ministry which had cleared an amount of Rs 2,700 crore under the central ‘Jal Jeevan Mission’ project.A communication from the Union Ministry on this count reached the current state secretariat of Nabanna on Friday evening, where it was said that the amount of Rs …
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Kolkata, Feb 6 (IANS) A special court of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), here, on Friday, issued arrest warrant against Akhtar Ali, who had been the first whistleblower in the multi-crore financial irregularities case in state-run R.G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, also infamous for the ghastly rape and murder of a woman junior doctor within the hospital premises in August 2024.Ali, the former Deputy Superintendent of R.G. Kar, was the first one to raise an alarm over th…
Kolkata, Jan 3 (IANS) The West Bengal Health Department has scheduled a crucial meeting on January 9 to finalise the draft of the State Antibiotic Action Plan, aimed at curbing the rampant use of antibiotics and tackling antimicrobial resistance across the state.A state secretariat official said on Saturday that representatives from various concerned departments will also be present at the meeting. Besides the health department, officials from the animal husbandry, fisheries, and environment dep…