This year, the number of female candidates has seen a nearly 50 per cent increase while the number of male candidates has gone up by 34 per cent.

Speaking to mediapersons in Kolkata, Adhikari claimed that Bose was yet to play an active role in the state's affairs like his predecessors. “

Clashes between two groups were reported during two Ram Navami processions in Hooghly district’s Rishra on Sunday. The clashes came two days after similar violence was reported in Shibpur and Kazipara areas of Howrah on Thursday and Friday.

The BJP, on the other hand, accused the chief minister of “engineering” the recent violence in the state and demanded an NIA probe in the incidents.

Repeated calls and messages to Amit P Javalgi, Commissioner, Chandannagar police commissionerate, went unanswered.

West Bengal administration under scrutiny for not being adequately prepared given that the state had also seen violence on Ram Navami last year

In a statement, Governor C V Ananda Bose said the state is determined to put an end to the violence and added “mobocracy cannot derail democracy”.

WB Commission for Protection of Child Rights chairperson Sudeshna Roy said, “We are here to help NCPCR, but they do not want our cooperation. They felt that we were trying to hide something which is not true.”

“We will observe a pen-down strike on April 6. And a two-day protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi on April 10-11,” said Joint Forum of State Government Employees member Bhaskar Ghosh

Addressing a press conference at the state secretariat, Dwivedi said, "On the first day of the camp, total 5 lakh 53 thousand and 185 people turned up to avail our services.

Violent scenes of ransacking and arson were witnessed during a Ram Navami procession in some area of Howrah on Thursday. Similar incidents of violence were also reported from the district on Friday.

The first video purportedly shows a youth sporting a saffron head band atop a DJ vehicle dancing while holding a handgun during what appears to be a Ram Navami procession. The second video shows a youth in a yellow kurta dancing near a DJ vehicle while brandishing a handgun.

On Saturday morning, normalcy slowly returned to the area as some local shopkeepers opened their shops. People also left their homes for work.

As tension escalated between two groups, some shops and houses were vandalised and vehicles set on fire.

The President also virtually inaugurated 50 branches of UCO Bank across 18 states of the country. Murmu virtually laid the foundation stone for the reconstruction of a school in Odisha where she once worked as a teacher.

Apart from 51 leopards, GZRR was also provided with 38 antelope, 50 spotted deer, seven blackbuck, four barking deer, three chinkara and one four-horned antelope.

The court said all the important points of the rally venue, including the entry and exit points, will have to be kept under CCTV surveillance. The court also ordered the police to set up a three-tier barricade at the rally venue.

GST was launched across India on July 1, 2017 with the TMC giving 'in principle' support to the Narendra Modi-led government when the tax framework was introduced. Half of the GST collected goes to the concerned states and half to the Centre.

Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari led a rally from College Square to Rani Rashmoni Road over the issue. Armed with posters and placards, BJP members marched on the streets wearing garlands made with potatoes.

On March 16, the state government submitted a report to a division bench of Chief Justice Prakash Srivastava and Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj, which is hearing the case, where the associates accompanying the Union minister's convoy were held responsible for instigating the violence.

The state election commission (SEC) had, vide notifications dated July 29, 2022 and August 2, 2022, issued various directives to compute the population of the other backward classes for the upcoming panchayat elections.

The BJP said when Murmu was in the fray for the President's post last year, it was the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC that fielded a candidate against her and felicitating her now was nothing but a “show-off”.

According to reports, on Saturday morning, a group of local villagers gathered outside Pandu's house and called the couple outside.

Announces formation of two new development boards, one for minorities, another for migrant labour — two groups the party believes abandoned it in the recent Sagardighi Assembly bypoll it lost