Two Trinamool Congress (TMC) ministers, Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee, MLA Madan Mitra and former Kolkata Corporation Mayor Sovon Chattopadhyay have been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday in the Narada sting tapes cases where ...
18 May 2021 StatesmanThe West Bengal government today announced a nearcomplete lockdown in the state from Sunday till 30 May to contain the spread of Covid in Bengal, with all offices, industries and the transport sector, including Metro services, to be shut. ...
17 May 2021 StatesmanPanic gripped Manikchak area following concerns that bodies, presumably that of Covid-19 victims, could wash down in the Ganga river to Malda district from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. People were also in a panic mode over possibilities of the ...
17 May 2021 StatesmanAn apex body of traders in north Bengal has welcomed the decision of the state government to impose a near-total lockdown for a fortnight beginning 6 am on Sunday, to 6 pm on 30 May. Only essential services are ...
17 May 2021 StatesmanAs the state government planned to implement the Teesta Barrage Project for better production of the Kharip crop and for the development of economy from the agriculture sector in this region as well as southern north Bengal, a section ...
17 May 2021 StatesmanConsidering the stiff rise in Covid cases, the Mamata Banerjee government imposed near-complete-lockdown norms in the state starting from Sunday 6 a.m. for the next 15 days, allowing movement of people and vehicles only for emergency.The state government stopped ...
16 May 2021 StatesmanWest Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar has said he was expecting proper investigations into multiple protests he faced while visiting areas torn by post-poll violence in Cooch Behar district yesterday. Mr Dhankar’s convoy was shown black flags and protesters shouted ...
16 May 2021 StatesmanAuthorities of the Jaldapara National Park have arrested one person in connection with the poaching of a rhino on 4 April in the Chilapata forest range in the Jaldapara National Park, and recovered two riffles, 24 bullets and three ...
16 May 2021 StatesmanThe first electric crematorium in the Hills is likely to begin operations in Kalimpong within a few days, with the Kalimpong Municipality there targeting to operate it by 20 May. The crematorium will also be allowing people to cremate ...
16 May 2021 StatesmanRobert A Heinlein had once said, “Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.” With a view to inspiring a healthy curiosity among students and to develop a scientific sense of enquiry, North Bengal Science Centre, Siliguri, in association ...
16 May 2021 StatesmanWest Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee today yet again wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over inadequate supply of vaccines and stated that her government is ready to provide land and all the required support for manufacturing Covid vaccines.“We, ...
14 May 2021 StatesmanAhead of Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar"s visit to Cooch Behar, chief minister Mamata Banerjee wrote to him claiming that his visit violates the long-standing norms and protocols."I find from social media that you are unilaterally proceeding to Cooch Behar district ...
14 May 2021 StatesmanTo wither the Adhikaris" clout which has posed the most serious challenge to Trinamul Congress hegemony in Midnapore, chief minister Mamata Banerjee has picked six ministers from this district.Ostensibly Midnapore was the Adhikaris" fiefdom but six TMC MLAs have ...
14 May 2021 StatesmanScientists of National Institute of Technology (NIT) Durgapur after successfully developing affordable ventilators for artificial breathing of critical Covid -19 patents last year have now developed a low-cost portable oxygen concentrator machine with completely indigenous technology.NIT, Durgapur"s Registrar told ...
14 May 2021 StatesmanWork to install oxygen plants at the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMCH) and the Siliguri District Hospital (SDH) has started on a warfooting. The plants will facilitate oxygen supply to patients in hospitals. The chairperson of the ...
13 May 2021 StatesmanFamily members of some patients who have undergone Covid-19 treatment in the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMCH) have alleged that they were denied even common medicines during the patients’ discharge.A relative of a patient said that the ...
13 May 2021 StatesmanThe monogram of the famed St Joseph’s School and St Joseph’s College in Darjeeling carries the motto ‘Sursum Corda,’ meaning ‘Lift up your hearts,’ and the same holds true in trying times like these. The Jesuits, who run the ...
13 May 2021 StatesmanShowcasing the Wage Code ahead of the Assembly elections in West Bengal, the BJP had assured to pay tea workers Rs 350 per day in the region if the party formed the government in the state. The Trinamul Congress-led ...
13 May 2021 StatesmanNisith Pramanik, the Cooch Behar BJP MP, and Jagannath Sarkar, the BJP MP from Ranaghat in West Bengal and had won the state Assembly seats of Dinhata and Santipur respectively in the just-concluded Bengal Assembly polls have resigned from ...
13 May 2021 StatesmanTaking a serious view of complaints regarding atrocities being committed on the Dalits in West Bengal, the Chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes Vijay Sampla left for a two-day visit to West Bengal. He will be visiting ...
13 May 2021 StatesmanChief Minister Mamata Banerjee today announced that Covid vaccines will be given free of cost to all people of West Bengal as soon as stocks are sent by the Centre after the first Cabinet meeting of the third Trinamul ...
12 May 2021 StatesmanIn chief minister Mamata Banerjee"s new Cabinet 43 ministers including 24 MICs, 10 Ministerof-State (independent charge) and nine MoS were sworn-in at Thorne Hall of Raj Bhavan. Miss Banerjee retained the crucial departments of Home and Health departments along ...
12 May 2021 StatesmanBJP Nandigram MLA Suvendu Adhikari who won the titanic battle against chief minister Mamata Banerjee was chosen as the Leader of Opposition in the Assembly. Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad announced his name after a meeting with the legislators ...
12 May 2021 StatesmanHundreds of Trinmul Congress supporters were euphoric after Asansol north MLA, Moloy Ghatak took oath as Cabinet minister for the third time in a row. In Asansol City Bus Stand, BNR More, hundreds of TMC and INTTUC supporters played ...
12 May 2021 StatesmanChief Minister Mamata Banerjee today announced that Covid vaccines will be given free of cost to all people of West Bengal as soon as stocks are sent by the Centre after the first Cabinet meeting of the third Trinamul ...
11 May 2021 StatesmanChief minister Mamata Banerjee today wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to exempt Covid-related life saving drugs and equipment from GST and customs duty to eliminate supply constraints amidst the rapid surge in fresh Covid cases in ...
11 May 2021 StatesmanAs Darjeeling district recorded more than 5,000 Covid-19 cases in the past over seven days, health department officials are finding it increasingly difficult to carry out contact tracing. Efforts to reduce the transmission rate requires painstaking studies of contact ...
11 May 2021 StatesmanWith a view to stopping alleged Trinamul Congress attack on them during the post-poll period, members of the North Dinajpur BJP committee held a meeting this afternoon in Raiganj and instructed block BJP leaders to lodge FIRs in police ...
11 May 2021 StatesmanMalda Medical College and Hospital is all set to install a liquid medical oxygen (LMO) tank with a capacity to store 20 kilolitre of the gas for medical use, especially to meet the extra need of it for Covid ...
11 May 2021 StatesmanHimachal Pradesh chief minister Jai Ram Thakur on Sunday said the government, apart from increasing bed capacity in various health facilities and Covid centres, is constructing makeshift hospitals in different parts of the state to tackle covid patients’ rush.Thakur ...
10 May 2021 StatesmanIndia recorded 4,03,738 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours taking the overall caseload to 2,22,96,414, according to data from the Union Health Ministry.The country"s active COVID-19 cases stand at 37,36,648.With 4092 deaths in the last 24 hours, ...
09 May 2021 StatesmanSpeaking on the first day of the Assembly after returning to power for the third time in a row, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday stroked a major controversy by accusing the Election Commission of India of ...
09 May 2021 StatesmanOn the first day in office in her third term as the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday effected a major reshuffle in the police hierarchy, transferring 29 top officers, mostly bringing back ...
08 May 2021 StatesmanCautioning people about a further surge in Covid cases in the next 15 days, chief minister Mamata Banerjee today announced a 40 per cent increase of beds in all hospitals and nursing homes to handle the additional patient load ...
08 May 2021 StatesmanUnion Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday assured West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of all help to fight Covid in the state.In a letter to Banerjee, who has just taken over for her third stint in power, he ...
08 May 2021 StatesmanCases of fresh Covid-19 infections continued to climb up, as Darjeeling district recorded 440 new ones in the past 24 hours. The Siliguri Municipal Corporation, including areas that fall under Jalpaiguri district, registered 310 cases, sources said today. One hundred ...
07 May 2021 StatesmanBooth president of the Trinamul Congress in the Alipurduar Assembly constituency, Dipak Roy, was brutally murdered late last night. A resident of Mathura village under the Alipurduar police station, the 38-yearold Roy was returning from a marriage party in ...
07 May 2021 StatesmanNewly-elected MLA from Kalimpong, Ruden Sada Lepcha’s statement that he would first give priority to development work at places where he had won during the Assembly elections has received flak from leaders of various political parties in the Hills. In ...
07 May 2021 StatesmanA sense of fear has once again started stalking people in Raiganj town in North Dinajpur district after two more persons died after contracting Covid-19. The two deceased included a 25-year-old man, who died in Ward No 5 under ...
07 May 2021 StatesmanMamata Banerjee on Wednesday took oath as the Chief Minister of West Bengal for a third consecutive term. She was administered the oath by Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar. She arrived at Raj Bhavan early morning today in Kolkata for the oath-taking ...
06 May 2021 Statesman