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Balancing act: West Bengal BJP looks to blend ideology, governance agenda

The BJP in West Bengal is looking for a perfect blend of ideology and credible governance agenda

Bengal CM warns pvt hospitals for refusing patients under health scheme

A senior official of the health department said there were 3,285 cases of refusal of admission by private hospitals lodged with them.

Piyush Goyal asks W Bengal govt to cooperate in completing metro projects

"I hope that that the state government will allow us to implement the Central schemes benefitting people here", Goyal said

Bangladesh's per capita GDP now higher than eastern and northeastern India

Its per capita GDP was $1,905 in 2019, against $1,566 in West Bengal and $1,185 in Assam

Power populism

States should resist the temptation to hand out free electricity

Electricity to housing, West Bengal govt rolls out sops ahead of polls

The state finance minister has announced in its Budget free electricity for consumers with quarterly consumption up to 75 units

After JD(U) expulsion, rumour spreads of Prashant Kishor joining TMC

Kishor like West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been criticial of Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Population Register

Neighbouring visit

Bangladesh is not unlike India and it would not be easy for most people to be able to tell Bangladesh apart from West Bengal

Gujarat replaces West Bengal as top governing state in 2019, says study

Delhi is ranked fifth on the parameter of health, one of its main claims of governance

West Bengal sets IT export target of Rs 40,000 crore for next 3 years

In 2018-19 exports from the state's IT sector was Rs 22,897 crore as compared to Rs 8356 crore in 2010-11, said the state IT Minister

Bengal developers fear missing real estate sops with state bypassing RERA

Bengal govt enacted own version of RERA, the West Bengal Housing Industry Regulation Act in 2017, the only state to do so, and Housing Industry Regulatory Authority came into effect on June 1, 2018

Arrows of Arjuna in Mahabharata had atomic power, claims Bengal governor

Arrows of Mahabharata's Arjuna had atomic power, claims Bengal Governor

Homestays growing at 30% CAGR, foreign tourist arrival up by 2.57%: WB govt

Tourism minister Gautam Deb focused on the tourism and homestay policies and said that there are around 3000 homestays in north Bengal

Those damaging public property will be shot: West Bengal BJP president

Addressing a public meeting in West Bengal's Nadia district, Ghosh came down heavily on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee

Letter to BS: Mamata has a wider strategy to capture the anti-BJP space

Since the compulsion of state politics is at times at variance with the national narrative needs to be interpreted as her wider political strategy

CAA exposed Pakistan, youth being misguided: PM Narendra Modi

Mamata govt is not implementing central schemes as they do not help syndicates or involve cut money: PM

Mamata to skip oppn meet; cites violence by Left, Cong during strike in WB

Banerjee said "double standards" of the Left Front and Congress will not be tolerated.

Mamata's appeasement policy affecting state's social harmony: K N Tripathi

He said that Banerjee has the vision and power to implement her decisions but needs to keep a check on her sentiments and exercise restraint

Cannot be bullied, violence must stop: Supreme Court on CAA, NRC protests

Citizenship Law and NRC can be enforced in West Bengal only over my dead body: Mamata

Bengal governor says ready to talk with CM Mamata amid tussle with govt

Speaker Biman Banerjee who was present in the House could not come down to receive him, as he was attending a Business Advisory (BA) committee meeting.