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The coming by-polls in West Bengal are expected to be bellwether for which way the political winds are blowing in Mamata Banerjee’s West Bengal after the massive protests over the rape-murder of a Kolkata doctor. The protest, strongly backed by the urban middle class, has shaken the state and despite protesters’ claims that it was…
Some Odisha districts witnessed wind speeds of 110 kmph and extremely heavy rain. New Delhi: Cyclone Dana hit the Odisha coast today, uprooting trees, snapping power lines in several areas and killing a person in West Bengal. The storm made landfall between Bhitarkanika and Dhamra with wind speeds of 100-110 kmph. Here Are 10 Points…
RG Kar Rape-Murder Protest: West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front (WBJDF), the umbrella body of the junior doctors spearheading the movement in support of their demands on the rape and murder of a lady junior doctor of R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata, on Friday night cautioned the state government of resuming their total…
Kolkata: The CBI has sent a letter to West Bengal Health Secretary NS Nigam asking him to furnish details about why officials, allegedly involved in the RG Kar Hospital corruption case, are still holding key positions at the medical establishment, a source said on Wednesday. The Calcutta High Court on August 23 ordered the transfer…
New Delhi: The decision to build Nano, the Rs 1 lakh car, in Bengal’s Singur, had taken the team of Ratan Tata, the country’s best-loved industrialist and philanthropist, by surprise, as did the unexpected price point of the car, Niira Radia, former chairperson of now-defunct Vaishnavi Communications — which managed public relations for the Tata…
RG Kar Junior Doctors Protest: West Bengal Chief Secretary Manoj Pant on Friday sent an email to the West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front (WBJDF) giving a status update on the initiatives undertaken by the state Health Department at different medical colleges and hospitals in the state following the ghastly rape and murder of a junior…
A Durga Puja pandal showcasing the RG Kar Hospital horror. (News18) While some pandals have refused the state government’s aid of Rs 85,000, others show the idol covering her eyes after witnessing the RG Kar brutality West Bengal’s famed Durga Puja celebrations this year are all about justice for the 31-year-old trainee doctor who was…
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote another letter to PM Narendra Modi on the flood situation in West Bengal, maintaining that Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) released water from its reservoirs without consulting her government, inundating several districts. Responding to Banerjee’s earlier letter to the PM, Union Jal Shakti Minister CR Paatil had said the state’s officials…
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee gets angry at every small thing. Now when many districts of South Bengal were flooded, Mamata Banerjee got angry and she vented her anger on Damodar Valley Corporation i.e. DVC. She vented her anger on the central government and Jharkhand. Mamata Banerjee alleges that so much water was deliberately…
Mamata Banerjee Imposes Flood Restrictions: Long queues of trucks carrying goods were observed at the Jharkhand-West Bengal border on Friday after WB Police imposed restrictions on vehicle movement to and from the state following floods that inundated southern districts of Bengal. Trucks queued up near the Bengal and Jharkhand borders due to the border seal….