Kolkata: Supporters of the Congress and Left parties on Tuesday blocked railway tracks at several places, and held sit-ins on roads to enforce the nationwide shutdown, which evoked a mixed response in West Bengal. The ‘Bharat Bandh‘, called by agitating farmers’ unions against the Centre’s farm laws, partially affected the state with private vehicles remaining … Read more
NEW DELHI: As the campaign heats up in Bengal, Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are trying to outdo each other in their show of of love for the state’s iconic leaders. The BJP has made a list of over 140 nationalist icons, many of whom it claims have been forgotten by the … Read more
NEW DELHI: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday began a four-day tour of tribal districts in Bankura, an area visited by Union home minister Amit Shah earlier this month. During a programme, she hit out at Shah, calling his lunch at the house of a tribal in Bankura a “public show.” Banerjee will be … Read more
BANKURA (WB): Ahead of the Assembly elections in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday announced schemes for redressing grievances of people at the block level and providing motorbikes to youths to help them run small businesses. Banerjee, while speaking at a public distribution programme at Khatra in Bankura district, also claimed that the … Read more
NEW DELHI: BJP president J P Nadda will hold his first meeting with the leaders who have been put in charge of various state units of the party on Thursday as he works to tone up the organisational machinery for a string of crucial Assembly polls in the first half of the next year. Nadda … Read more
NEW DELHI: Ahead of the upcoming West Bengal assembly elections, the Centre has strongly taken up the issue of non-release of over Rs 4,500 crore earmarked for Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Gramin) by the Trinamool Congress government. According to sources, the state government has not released the central share of Rs 3,146.64 crore and the … Read more
Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, 2020 which seeks to deregulate food items, including cereals, pulses and onion, a move aimed at transforming the farm sector and raising farmers’ income. Participating in the debate, Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal, an ally of the ruling BJP, spoke about “misgivings” and … Read more
Small incidents, often insignificant in the national imagination, are often the best indicators of a larger phenomenon. Over the past year, there has been controversy over the West Bengal government’s State Aided College Teachers scheme. The scheme regularises the employment of part-time and guest lecturers appointed by colleges and universities in the state. The move … Read more