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Mamata gets angry at 'Jai Shri Ram' slogans to get votes: Amit Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah Thursday termed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee a 'failed administrator'

Mamata did nothing for farmers, lotus to bloom in Bengal: J P Nadda

BJP national president J P Nadda said on Wednesday that the saffron party, if voted to power, will ensure all-round development of the state.

Development only possible when Mamata leaves, lotus blooms in WB: JP Nadda

Development in West Bengal is only possible when Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee leaves and the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) 'kamal' (lotus) blooms, said BJP national President JP Nadda on Wednesday

Won't allow BJP to turn Bengal into crematorium, says Mamata Banerjee

Ahead of the upcoming Legislative Assembly elections in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday urged the people of the state to show the door to Bharatiya Janta party

West Bengal will grow by at least 1.2% in FY21 despite Covid: Amit Mitra

May be even higher, he says, while comparing it with the Indian economy, which is projected to contract by 7.7%

West Bengal govt allots Singur land to five investors for agro industries

The cabinet also approved the proposal to offer jobs to the next of kin in case of death of civic police officials

Upcoming Salt Lake hockey international stadium gets Rs 20 cr boost

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday announced a Rs 20 crore grant for the upcoming international hockey stadium inside the Saltlake Stadium Complex. The 6,500-capacity stadium, to be spread over an area of approximately three acres, is proposed to be built near gate number one of the Saltlake Stadium and is likely to come up within a year. "I'm hereby granting Rs 20 crore for the hockey astro-turf," Banerjee said at the Khelashree programme, an annual felicitation of the state's sportspersons, at the Netaji Indoor Stadium here. She also made a slew of announcements, including a pension scheme of Rs 1,000 for the former sportspersons of the state. "We have about 2,000-plus ex-players who are above 60 years. As a gratitude, I want to announce a state pension scheme for them with Rs 1,000 per month," she said. Under an upcoming scheme, the state government will now sponsor about 100 athletes. "I will tell (Sports Minister) Aroop (Biswas) to form a committee of expe

Sent names of 250,000 Bengal farmers to Centre for PM Kisan scheme: Mamata

The move comes a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed the TMC dispensation for not implementing central schemes in West Bengal

Cops halt BJP's Parivartan Yatra in Bengal's Murshidabad for 'route breach'

BJP's 'Parivartan Yatra' was temporarily stopped from moving ahead in West Bengal's Murshidabad district as "members of the saffron camp, took a route that had a few sensitive pockets"

Mamata Banerjee likely to skip PM Narendra Modi's event in West Bengal

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee is unlikely to attend PM Modi's scheduled programme at Haldia in Purba Medinipore district on Sunday evening, a top official at the state secretariat said

PM to lay foundation stone of key infrastructure projects in WB tomorrow

Modi will lay the foundation stone of key infrastructure projects in Haldia, West Bengal on Sunday at 4

West Bengal govt effects police reshuffle before assembly polls

The West Bengal government on Saturday appointed Soumen Mitra as the new commissioner of Kolkata Police

Bengal govt likely to reshuffle top police officials before assembly poll

With the assembly election round the corner, the West Bengal government is likely to name Soumen Mitra as the new commissioner of Kolkata Police, a state government official said on Friday

Modi to visit Bengal, Assam on Sunday to dedicate development projects

Modi will be in Bengal and Assam on Sunday for inaugurating and laying the foundation stone of several development projects

Lack of industry in Nandigram may return to haunt Mamata Banerjee

Nandigram, 126 km south of Kolkata, is Banerjee's once trusted lieutenant turned biggest challenger Suvendu Adhikari's bastion

West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination to be held on July 11

WBJEE will be held on July 11 this year

WB Congress seeks AICC nod for formal dialogue with Siddiqui for alliance

Congress in poll-bound West Bengal on Thursday sought AICC's nod to initiate formal dialogue with the newly formed Indian Secular Front (ISF) of Pirzada Abbas Siddiqui for a grand alliance

Highest ever allocation for WB in rail budget: Union Minister Piyush Goyal

Poll-bound West Bengal got an allocation of Rs 6,636 crore

University campuses not to reopen immediately in Bengal: Education minister

Colleges and universities in West Bengal, closed since mid-March due to the Covid-19 outbreak, will not reopen campuses immediately, Education Minister Partha Chatterjee said on Wednesday.

Money pumped into infra, health, agriculture; Bengal Inc hails Budget 2021

Bengal Inc on Monday hailed the Union budget saying that it has prioritised spending on growth and instilled faith that dawn is going to emerge on the Indian economy which is still in the darkness caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a "sensitive budget" which has proposed to put money into healthcare, sanitation, infrastructure and agriculture, city-based industrialists said. "In terms of the proposed investments in the social sector and infrastructure sector, the budget has, indeed, instilled faith that dawn is going to emerge on the Indian economy, while we are still in darkness that was caused by the pandemic," Bharat Chamber of Commerce president Ramesh Kumar Saraogi said. The government has prioritised spending on growth at this stage in the hope that such growth would help manage the fiscal deficit subsequently, Bandhan Bank MD & CEO Chandra Sekhar Ghosh said. "Overall, it was a growth-centric Budget aimed at securing India's long-term economic interest," ..