Astrophysicist Dipankar Banerjee takes charge as director of Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology

Astrophysicist Dipankar Banerjee takes charge as director of Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology

Dipankar Banerjee | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Astrophysicist Dipankar Banerjee took charge as Director, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), on Monday. Professor Banerjee, a senior professor at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, was serving as Director, Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), Nainital, prior to the current assignment. He has … Read more

Kolkata doctor’s death: Probe can be handed over to independent agency if family desires, says West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

Kolkata doctor’s death: Probe can be handed over to independent agency if family desires, says West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. File | Photo Credit: PTI With protests erupting across medical colleges in West Bengal over the alleged rape and murder of a doctor at Kolkata’s R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday (August 10, 2024) said that she has no hesitation in handing … Read more

Mamata Banerjee slams PM Modi over comments on atrocities on Sandeshkhali women

Mamata Banerjee slams PM Modi over comments on atrocities on Sandeshkhali women

Mamata Banerjee. File | Photo Credit: AP Jalpaiguri (West Bengal) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on April 5 hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his remarks about atrocities against women and corruption, asserting that the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and her government had taken stern action against the culprits involved in alleged sexual … Read more

TMC making alternative travel arrangements for participants of Delhi protest: Abhishek Banerjee

TMC making alternative travel arrangements for participants of Delhi protest: Abhishek Banerjee

TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said his party will make alternative arrangements for taking its supporters to Delhi for the October 3 protest programme. File | Photo Credit: ANI Senior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee on September 29 said his party will make alternative arrangements for taking its supporters to Delhi for the October 3 protest programme, … Read more

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee reaches Dubai, from Spain, to hold meetings with investors

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee reaches Dubai, from Spain, to hold meetings with investors

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. | Photo Credit: PTI “After a “successful” tour of Spain, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on September 21 reached the UAE where she will attend a series of meetings, including a business summit,” a State government official said. “Ms. Banerjee, who is scheduled to stay in Dubai till … Read more

Odisha train accident | Ashwini Vaishnaw, Naveen Patnaik and Mamata Banerjee visit site

Odisha train accident | Ashwini Vaishnaw, Naveen Patnaik and Mamata Banerjee visit site

Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw with Odisha Patnaik takes stock of the situation at the site of the accident involving Coromandel Express, Bengaluru-Howrah Express and a goods train , in Balasore district, Saturday, June 3, 2023. At least 261 people were killed and over 900 others suffered injuries, according to officials. | Photo Credit: PTI The … Read more

India likely to achieve SDG goals for reduction in newborn deaths: WHO expert Anshu Banerjee

India likely to achieve SDG goals for reduction in newborn deaths: WHO expert Anshu Banerjee

India, which has taken proactive steps to reduce neonatal mortality, is likely to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets in this key area by 2030, a top WHO official has said, citing data on the annual rate of reduction for newborn deaths in the country between 2016 and 2021. “India has taken important steps … Read more

‘Deeply pained’, says Mamata Banerjee on Poonch terror attack

‘Deeply pained’, says Mamata Banerjee on Poonch terror attack

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addresses a press conference at Nabanna, in Howrah on April 17, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said she was deeply pained by the deaths of five Indian Army soldiers in a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch. She extended her … Read more

Mamata Banerjee sits overnight in ‘dharna’ against Centre, raises political temperature

Mamata Banerjee sits overnight in ‘dharna’ against Centre, raises political temperature

West Bengal CM and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee with his nephew and TMC General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee during a sit-in demonstration against Union government’s alleged discriminatory attitude against the state, in Kolkata | Photo Credit: PTI West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sat overnight in front of Dalit icon Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s statue on Red Road in the heart … Read more

Meghalaya CM didn’t act on Mukroh firing fearing ED, CBI action: Trinamool Congress’ Abhishek Banerjee

Meghalaya CM didn’t act on Mukroh firing fearing ED, CBI action: Trinamool Congress’ Abhishek Banerjee

TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee. File | Photo Credit: PTI Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma will lose his seat as the ruling National People’s Party (NPP) will draw a blank in the Garo Hills, claimed senior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee. Addressing an election rally in South Tura on February 15, he dredged up the … Read more