Even as hundreds of people are still marooned in floodwater across districts in South Bengal, the Alipore meteorological department has warned against further rainfall in this part of Bengal, causing a worry among victims and state administration.Lives across districts ...
5 August 2021 StatesmanThe West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is today visiting flooded villages in Udaynarayanpur, in Howrah, while she has spoken to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, today, hoping the Centre will extend relief and compensate for the losses due to ...
5 August 2021 StatesmanThe select committee headed by Dr Susanta Banerjee, former director of medical education (DME), of the West Bengal University of Health Sciences (WBUHS) today, sat on a meeting to select three names out of around 10 applicants for the ...
5 August 2021 StatesmanWith the progression of time, the changing countenance of Calcutta ebbs with chunks of history; that today seem to drift in the air like broken voices from the past. Each and every lane or bylane in Calcutta throbs with ...
5 August 2021 StatesmanA war of words has started between the Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) and the Bharati Tamang faction of the All India Gorkha League (AIGL).The general secretary of the AIGL camp, SP Sharma, is on a fast-unto-death, demanding Darjeeling ...
5 August 2021 StatesmanPanchayat minister Subrata Mukherjee today visited some of the inundated areas following the release of huge quantities of water by the DVC and Durgapur barrage. Indian Air force choppers have been deployed for rescue operations after South Bengal districts ...
4 August 2021 StatesmanAs the vaccine supply crisis grows acute, incidents of confusion and disarray over inoculation at various vaccination centres are increasing in the city and districts.Today, troubles were reported at different vaccination centres at SSKM Hospital, Haroa rural hospital and ...
4 August 2021 StatesmanTrinamul Congress all-India general secretary Abhishek Banerjee today lashed out at the BJP-led Biplab Deb"s Tripura government, saying, "I"m challenging Biplab Deb that in 2023, people of Tripura will replace this fascist autocrat government and elect Trinamul Congress" government ...
4 August 2021 StatesmanThe North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMCH) has set up a 10-member multidisciplinary expert committee to examine cases of “adverse events” following immunisation (AEFI).The committee will monitor and investigate if such cases are reported in Darjeeling district among ...
4 August 2021 StatesmanThe Darjeeling district administration has directed all government offices and schools to clear stagnant water on their premises. Schools and offices which do not have such stagnant water on their premises have also been asked to inform the administration ...
4 August 2021 StatesmanThe West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) today announced that 100 per cent of candidates have passed the Class XII examinations this year."Our government is humanitarian. So all the candidates who have enrolled for the Higher Secondary ...
4 August 2021 StatesmanA major fire broke out at the Haldia Petrochemicals plant in Haldia in East Midnapore district of West Bengal on Tuesday afternoon.The chemical factory’s internal fire system has been pressed to action, but even nearly two hours after the ...
4 August 2021 StatesmanIncessant rains last week coupled with huge volumes of water from the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) have led to flood-like situations in seven districts of West Bengal, leaving at least 8 dead and displacing over 3 lakh people from ...
4 August 2021 StatesmanThe general secretary of the Bharati Tamang faction of the All India Gorkha League (AIGL), SP Sharma, today launched a fast-unto-death protest to mount pressure on Darjeeling’s BJP MP Raju Bista on Hill issues like the much-talked-about ‘Permanent Political ...
3 August 2021 StatesmanRural areas in Darjeeling district witnessed more dengue cases this year as compared to urban areas, data provided by the health department reveal. Health officials claimed that around 37 cases had been detected in these rural areas this year.Meanwhile, ...
3 August 2021 StatesmanTrinamul Congress allIndia general secretary Abhishek Banerjee is heading to Tripura tomorrow where he will hold organisational meetings and a media conference. Party sources said due to Covid restrictions, there will be no mass gathering where Abhishek could address ...
3 August 2021 StatesmanSoon Metro commuters using smart cards or tokens will not have to stand in queues for buying or recharging their "keys" to the underground transportation system. The Kolkata Metro Rail is mulling a scheme to introduce QR code-based ticketing ...
3 August 2021 StatesmanThe national general secretary of Trinamul Congress, Abhishek Banerjee, who today arrived in Tripura to attend his party"s organisational meet, alleged that his car was attacked by BJP supporters when he was returning after having offered his prayers at ...
3 August 2021 StatesmanThe "Khela Hobe" slogan, which was the key political slogan of the Trinamul Congress in the run-up to the Assembly elections in West Bengal, has now attained popularity across the country and is being raised in the Parliament and ...
3 August 2021 StatesmanAjay Barman, a 27-yearold automobile mechanic in Matigara near Siliguri, hasn’t gone to work since 28 July. He’s determined to stop the “deadly Delta variant” from spreading among members of his family and remains indoors for most of the ...
2 August 2021 StatesmanAs the country prepares to mark the second anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370, which ended the special status that was granted to Jammu and Kashmir, on 5 August, several views have been put forward about the new ...
2 August 2021 StatesmanThe North Bengal Frontier of the Border Security Force (BSF) has seized 11 cattle and cough syrup and apprehended two smugglers. BSF officers said they acted on a tip-off and troops of the border outpost, Bhadra, 174 Battalion, apprehended ...
2 August 2021 StatesmanWest Bengal will roll out the "One Nation One Ration Card" programme under which the National Food Security Act beneficiaries from other states can collect food grains from ration shops across West Bengal from 3 August."Any migrant worker from ...
2 August 2021 StatesmanA PIL seeking the removal of MLA Mukul Roy from the post of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairperson in the state Assembly was moved before the Calcutta High Court on Friday, which the state government opposed contending that the ...
1 August 2021 StatesmanKadori Khatun, an 11-year-old homeless Kanyashree girl, runs a tea stall to support her semi-blind parents who live under a banyan tree by the Kuye river bank at Angerpur village.At the stall, Kadori in her school uniform writhes in ...
1 August 2021 StatesmanTwo persons were killed and three others have gone missing after incessant rainfall caused a stream to swell and sweep away a camp at the construction site of the Sevoke- Rangpo rail line at Mamkhola on the Bengal-Sikkim border ...
1 August 2021 StatesmanIn the wake of a dengue outbreak at Dudhia, located on the foothills of Kurseong, the administration has alerted the adjoining Naxalbari Block and has asked officials there to taking preventive measures.Twenty-nine cases of dengue have been found at ...
1 August 2021 StatesmanFormer Union minister and BJP Lok Sabha MP from Asansol, Babul Supriyo, on Saturday announced that he has decided to quit politics.In a Facebook post in Bengali, the singer-turned-politician clarified that he is neither joining any other party, nor ...
1 August 2021 StatesmanState finance minister Amit Mitra today urged banks to introduce job-oriented courses with 100 per cent guaranteed placements in collaboration with universities by taking a cue from Bandhan Bank that has started a postgraduate diploma course in banking and ...
31 July 2021 StatesmanTrinamul Congress Rajya Sabha chief and party"s national spokesperson Derek O"Brien today lashed out at the Tripura chief minister Biplab Deb, saying, "When I came to a hotel in Agartala from the airport there were already 100 policemen in ...
31 July 2021 StatesmanDarjeeling’s Rajya Sabha MP Shanta Chettri today alleged that the BJP-led central government was not sincere about granting tribal status to Gorkha communities.According to her, she bases her statement on a question she raised in Parliament regarding the issue ...
31 July 2021 StatesmanThe food control department in South Dinajpur has taken initiatives to intensify the process of linking people’s ration cards with the Aadhar card through a door-to-door campaign. The drive that started earlier this month will end on 15 September, ...
31 July 2021 StatesmanJust a few days after a bomb threat in a flight that landed at Kolkata airport created much stir, the airport authorities today conducted a security drill to ensure the safety of passengers in times of threats in a ...
30 July 2021 StatesmanApprehending the third Covid-19 wave by August, the state health department has decided to take special measures for the protection of child healthcare. According to the experts associated with the union ministry of health, children will be relatively more ...
30 July 2021 StatesmanKeeping in mind the warning of experts about a possible third wave of the Covid-19 Â pandemic, the West Bengal government on Thursday extended the existing restrictions till August 15 but also announced certain relaxations.The administration allowed government programs at ...
30 July 2021 StatesmanWest Bengal government has set up a state-level committee and three task forces for implementing the "Duare Sarkar" programme, under which people can apply for the newly launched "Lakhmir Bhandar" scheme while the the government today decided to organise block-level ...
30 July 2021 StatesmanThe Kalimpong district administration has included six-gram panchayats (GP) on ‘high risk’ and ‘risk’ zones to contain the spread of Covid19 infection. The administration said it has focused on active surveillance and implementing the Covid-19 protocol.The district has recently ...
30 July 2021 StatesmanAs pressure mounted on him from several quarters, Darjeeling’s MP Raju Bista took up the issue of the promised ‘Permanent Political Solution’ (PPS) for Hill political problems during Zero Hour in Parliament today.However, observers in the Hills said that ...
30 July 2021 StatesmanAs data accumulate on Covid19 cases in north Bengal and Sikkim as in the rest of the country, researchers have observed patterns of peaks and valleys that repeat on a near-weekly basis in the region. But understanding what is ...
30 July 2021 StatesmanThe West Bengal government has alleged in an affidavit filed before the Calcutta High Court that the NHRC committee which probed incidents of post-poll violence in the state "was fraught with bias against the ruling dispensation". Criticising the Mamata ...
29 July 2021 Statesman