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Bengal: Durga Puja creates 3 lakh jobs
Not just fun and frolic, Durga Puja in West Bengal is a grand economic affair involving transactions of at least Rs 40,000 crore, creating employment opportunities for around three lakh people, stakeholders said on Monday.With more than 40,000 community ...
4 October 2022 Telegraph'Gandhi' as Asura sparks row
A Durga idol in Kolkata in which the Mahisasura' (Buffalo demon) was allegedly replaced by a crudely crafted Mahatma Gandhi-look alike has created controversy on Sunday, the birth anniversary of the father of the nation.A journalist tweeted a purported ...
3 October 2022 TelegraphPluralism in puja rituals
The descendants of a landowning Chatterjee family in Patuli village of Hooghly’s Balagarh perform Durga Puja rites according to Buddhist norms, highlighting a unique aspect of the festival’s multicultural nature.The members of the Chatterjee family perform Durga Puja rituals ...
3 October 2022 TelegraphChamling pitches himself as CM face
Pawan Kumar Chamling, the longest-serving chief minister of India, who lost power after heading Sikkim for 24 years in 2019, will be the chief ministerial candidate of the Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) in the 2024 Assembly elections.“The party wants ...
3 October 2022 TelegraphAward named after Darjeeling missionary
St Joseph’s School (North Point) has immortalised Father Gerard Van Walleghem, a beloved figure in Darjeeling and arguably the last foreign missionary to remain in the hills till his death, by instituting an award after him.Father Van died in ...
3 October 2022 TelegraphLotus hit by scanty rain
Production of the lotus, a flower integral to Durga Puja rituals, witnessed a steep drop this year owing to scanty monsoon, ironic amid a Puja marked by rain.Rural farmers cultivating the lotus said they could produce only half of ...
3 October 2022 TelegraphBapu-like Mahishasura raises eyebrows
The Mahishasura resembles Mahatma Gandhi at a Durga puja organised in Calcutta by an outfit that describes itself as the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha, the news spreading on a day Prime Minister Narendra Modi led India in celebrating the ...
3 October 2022 Telegraph228 new Covid cases
Bengal on Saturday reported 228 new Covid-19 infections, 280 recoveries and one death. Currently, there are 3,116 active cases in the state: 3,026 in home isolation and 90 in hospitals, according to a state bulletin. The state’s recovery rate was 98.84 per ...
2 October 2022 TelegraphBJP lesson at CPM bookstalls
The BJP and the CPM have pitted themselves against each other in a battle of books this festive season, but the CPM seems to be chapters ahead in this game.For long, Left parties have set up stalls to sell ...
2 October 2022 TelegraphPuja rush on train from Bangladesh
Mitali Express, the recently opened rail link between New Jalpaiguri and Dhaka, created a record of sorts on Friday as it ferried nearly 400 passengers, the highest since the services started earlier this year, who reached north Bengal to ...
2 October 2022 TelegraphFestive cash aid for jobless tea workers
The district administration has disbursed three months of financial assistance, along with an ex gratia, to the jobless workers of two tea estates lying closed for years now, ahead of Durga Puja.On Friday, the administration transferred the money to ...
2 October 2022 TelegraphState Youth Congress gets new chief
East Burdwan district’s Azahar Mullick was on Saturday elected as the new chief of the state Youth Congress committee. Mullick defeated Shaheena Javed, the candidate supported by state party president and MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, by a margin of 8,000 ...
2 October 2022 TelegraphBrace for rain in Puja: Met office
The IMD has forecast the possibility of heavy rain across the state starting on Sunday, Maha Saptami, citing intensification of the cyclonic circulation that emerged in the northeast and adjoining east central Bay of Bengal on Saturday.If the prediction ...
2 October 2022 TelegraphDarjeeling: Hope floats for orange growers
Orange growers based in Darjeeling hills are expecting this winter to be a better season in terms of the fruit’s production.The production of the famous fruit of the hills has declined for the last five to six years. It ...
2 October 2022 TelegraphMilk, cow urine wage war against ‘blood tea’
Neeraj Zimba, Gorkha National Liberation Front’s secretary general, who won the Darjeeling Assembly seat on a BJP ticket, on Saturday sprinkled Gangajal (holy water), cow’s milk and cow’s urine on tea bushes where Hamro Party president Ajoy Edwards had ...
2 October 2022 Telegraph23kg gold hidden in two SUVs
The north Bengal zonal unit of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has seized around 23 kilos of gold near Malbazar of Jalpaiguri that had been smuggled into India through the India-Myanmar border.Gold worth Rs 11.66 crores, which was ...
2 October 2022 Telegraph99 Durga puja pandals bag Bengal govt award
The West Bengal government has decided to felicitate 99 Durga Puja pandals in Kolkata and adjoining areas with Biswa Bangla Sharad Samman - 2022 awards in four categories -- 'best of the best', 'special selection', 'innovative idea' and 'environment-friendly', ...
2 October 2022 TelegraphHC halts CID’s cattle probe
Calcutta High Court on Thursday passed an interim order that restrained the CID from probing into alleged cattle smuggling as the CBI had been investigating the case.The interim order was passed by a division bench headed by Chief Justice ...
1 October 2022 TelegraphManagers leave 8 hill gardens, Ajoy spills blood
Managers and their assistants in eight gardens run by Darjeeling Organic Tea Estates Pvt Ltd (DOTEPL) have left the plantations without issuing lockout notices at a time when the annual bonus is to be paid to over 6,500 workers.The ...
1 October 2022 TelegraphCBI files charge sheet, names Partha
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday filed its first charge sheet in a special CBI court in connection with the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment scam, naming ex-education minister Partha Chatterjee as one of the ...
1 October 2022 TelegraphBJP duo ask Tea Board to take over hill estates
BJP’s Darjeeling MP Raju Bista and Kurseong MLA B.P. Sharma have demanded that the Tea Board of India take over 10 gardens managed by the Darjeeling Organic Tea Estates Private Limited (DOTEPL) for its failure to pay workers wages ...
1 October 2022 TelegraphClaim of bonus pay plan for tea gardens
The Darjeeling Organic Tea Estates Pvt Ltd (DOTEPL) has decided to pay 10 per cent bonus to its workers in the next 48 hours, claimed a senior official of the Darjeeling Tea Association (DTA).DOTEPL is the second largest group ...
1 October 2022 TelegraphArmy, civilians scale 2 peaks
A joint team comprising members of the Indian Army and the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute (HMI) of Darjeeling, and civilians scaled two mountains of the greater Himalayas in north Sikkim last week.The expedition was a part of the multiple adventure ...
1 October 2022 TelegraphDuare Sarkar: Job scheme off
The Mamata Banerjee government has decided not to include the 100-day job scheme in the fifth edition of Duare Sarkar (government on doorsteps) programme, which will be held between November 1 and 30, amid murmurs in the administration that ...
1 October 2022 Telegraph262 more Covid cases in Bengal
Bengal on Friday reported 262 Covid-19 infections, 285 recoveries and one death.The state has currently 3,169 active patients — 3,081 in home isolation and 88 at hospitals. According to a state government bulletin, the recovery rate was 98.83 per ...
1 October 2022 TelegraphCBI probe order upheld
A division bench of the high court on Friday upheld an order by Justice Rajasekhar Mantha of the court for a CBI probe into the alleged murder of Bally Trinamul Congress leader Tapan Dutta 11 years ago.The division bench ...
1 October 2022 TelegraphNo puja for Bengal BJP from next year
The BJP, which had become the first political party in West Bengal to organise its own Durga Puja two years back in the run-up to the state assembly elections, has decided to stop the practice from next year.The BJP ...
1 October 2022 Telegraph