Named by Mamata Banerjee as Bengal brand ambassador, after he accompanied her to a foreign trip. The pre-2021 Assembly poll days, when he was seen with BJP top brass, now seem past
Bose completed a year in office on Tuesday.
Addressing the inaugural session, Sourav Ganguly praised Banerjee and her government for taking the state forward in terms of both growth and investment.
Leading conglomerate ITC Ltd would expand its hospitality assets in West Bengal to nine from the existing five hotels, Chairman and MD Sanjiv Puri said on Tuesday.
The dip in the temperature is likely due to the northwesterly winds, according to the weather officials.
Bose made the remarks during a media interaction at the Raj Bhavan on Tuesday to mark a year of his appointment as the Bengal Governor.
The relief material was for the families of 16 CPI(M) workers whose houses were set on fire on November 13 following the murder of local Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Saifuddin Lashkar the same morning.
Area still tense, TMC MLA says CPM should take responsibility for unrest
Highlighting the Israel-Hamas war, the puja committee has arranged a drawing competition for children to highlight children getting killed in the conflict.
The Trinamool Congress, however, has claimed that the programme has been organised with an eye on the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
Trinamool Congress also organises its annual Martyr's Day rally in front of Victoria House.
The Summit will host plenary sessions, Parallel Global Conferences, sectoral sessions for focus sectors, and country sessions with partner countries, besides B2Bs (Business-to-Business) and B2Gs (Business-to-Government) meetings.
Soumendra Nath Mookerjee, during whose two-year tenure the West Bengal government faced several legal setbacks, says, “Any professional should maintain their dignity and self-respect … To ensure this, I resigned.”
Saifuddin Laskar, also the husband of the local panchayat pradhan and the TMC's area president, was shot dead allegedly on Monday when he was on his way to a local mosque at Bamangachi.
Last month, three plaques commemorating UNESCO's honour were installed at different places on the campus of Visva-Bharati with names of then vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the chancellor of the central university, inscribed on them.
While Kajal Sheikh is emerging as a big leader in Birbhum, the party does not want to polarise Hindu voters, nor encourage another strongman like Mondal
The family members say he was allegedly beaten to death by policemen; likely to approach Calcutta High Court.
South Bengal districts and Kolkata likely to receive rains for the next three days, predicts Met.
Police say a Nepali couple who rented the flat in 2018 locked it and left two years ago but paid the rent till six months ago.
Bhai Phota also called Bhai Dooj is a Bengali festival to honour the beautiful bonding between brothers and sisters. It is celebrated two days after Diwali.
Sanjoy Mallik will perform the duties of the vice-chancellor till a new full-term vice-chancellor is appointed, the university said in a notification.
Mallick was arrested by the ED on October 27 after a marathon search at places linked to him. Mallick, who held the food and supplies portfolio between 2011 and 2021, is now forest minister.
Abhishek Banerjee would appear before the ED on Thursday, State Women and Child Welfare Minister and TMC spokesperson Shashi Panja said, alleging that the party national general secretary is a victim of “vendetta politics”.
Mallick, who was the state’s food and supplies minister from 2011 to 2021, was arrested by the ED on October 27 over alleged irregularities in the public distribution system.
In Kolkata, the maximum temperature on Sunday was recorded as 31 degrees Celsius , while the minimum was 24 degree Celsius.


