Call to solve Siliguri pollution problems
Concerned about the rising pollution levels in Siliguri, a voluntary organisation on Tuesday sought measures to be taken against the same. Members of the Green Forum also demanded that authorities concerned
Statesman (Kolkata)
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A village where everyone is a Maoist cadre
JHILIMILI (Bankura), 4 MAY:
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BPL card-holders go through a tough time
KOLKATA, 4 MAY: With councillors and panchayat pradhans busy with election, BPL card holders are being deprived of financial support under the state illness assistance fund that they are entitled to. Usually the certificates for the state illness assistance fund are supposed to be given by councillors, but as they are all busy in poll campaigns they are not entertaining any BPL families in thei
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Haripur ready to vote against nuclear plant
HARIPUR (East Midnapore), 30 APRIL: The decision to set up a nuclear power plant at Haripur took a significant turn as thousands of fishermen and local residents raised their voice in protest against any government move to acquire land in the area. Amid this situation, together with other parts of the district, Haripur, a remote hamlet along the Bay of Bengal in Contai South Assembly constituen
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Buddha promises job quota for poor youths
TEN per cent Reservation if LEFT FRONT retains power HENRIA (East Midnapore), 30 APRIL: Lending Miss Mamata Banerjee
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No land acquisition for pvt units, says Mamata
The Trinamul Congress supremo, Miss Mamata Banerjee, today said that if elected to power in West Bengal, her government would ensure industrialisation in the state but asserted that it would not acquire land for setting up private industries. Breaking her mum on CPI-M's continuous attack on using black money by Trinamul Congress for election campaign, Miss Banerjee said that it is the Left Fron
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CM, Didi mum on environmental issues
KOLKATA, 17 APRIL: At a time when leaders of both the CPI-M and the Trinamul Congress are all out to woo voters ahead of the Assembly election and have been appearing in several forums to answer people's queries, a set of questionnaire sent by a city-based NGO on the parties
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CM wants rapid industrialisation
The Singur-episode and the Left Front
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Car factory will come up at Singur, says Buddha, dares Trinamul to stop it
Unfazed by the Singur debacle, wherein Trinamul Congress-led agitation had put the CPI-M-led Left Front government in trouble in the last Lok Sabha and civic polls, chief minister, Mr Buddhabeb Bhattacharjee, today announced at an election rally that if the Left Front comes to power this time it will "certainly" set up the small car factory at Singur and dared the Trinamul Congress to stop it. Mr
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Mukul Roy files PIL against ban on use of loudspeakers in the open
KOLKATA, 5 APRIL: A public interest litigation (PIL) seeking an interim order to restrain West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) from giving effect to a notification on 29 December, 2009, which completely prohibited the use of loudspeakers in open areas, was filed in Calcutta High Court today.
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Figures say it all: North 24-Parganas comes a close second after Thane
North 24-Parganas has emerged as the second most densely populated district in the country with a population of 1,00,82,852 followed by Thane in Maharashtra, according to the 2011 Census report. The statistical figures regarding population, literacy rates, sex ratio in West Bengal ~ released at Writers' Buildings today by the state