Kolkata, June 19 (IANS) The three-day celebration for International Yoga Day, commencing on June 21, was inaugurated on Friday, with West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari taking part in both an inaugural marathon and a public Yoga session in the streets of central Kolkata.The three-day event was kicked off this morning with a marathon — “CITY OF JOY – Daud Se Dhyan 2026” — in Kolkata that started in front of the main building of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) in the New Market a…
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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 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 9 (IANS) After Suvendu Adhikari was sworn in as the ninth Chief Minister of West Bengal and the first Chief Minister of the first BJP-ruled government in the state on Saturday, he was greeted with loud applause from the lakhs of party supporters present at Brigade Parade Ground in central Kolkata as well as the dignitaries present at the dais of the oath ceremony. A visibly elated Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave Adhikari an affectionate hug. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adity…
Kolkata, May 9 (IANS) The rule of the first BJP government in West Bengal will begin from Saturday with the swearing-in ceremony of the new Cabinet to be led by Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari, that will be conducted at 10 A.M. today.The West Bengal unit of the BJP has deliberately chosen Saturday as the day of the oath-ceremony, since the day coincides with the birth anniversary of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore as per the Bengali calendar.The decision, as claimed by the BJP’s state President i…