Santanu Chowdhury

There has been a general proposition within CPM that there should be an alliance with Congress in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls to defeat both TMC and BJP. However, a final decision in the regard has not yet been taken.

Chatterjee also said the state government under the leadership of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been laying emphasis on physical education in academic institutions.

According to DMF, changes in the CRZ notification issued in April this year will have adverse effect on the livelihoods of fishermen in the coastal region.

WBCHSE HS results 2018: Granthan Sengupta from Jalpaiguri Zilla School in Jalpaiguri district topped the exam after scoring 496 marks out of 500 (99.2 per cent). He is the first student from Arts stream to top the exam in five years.

After coming second in the three-tier state panchayat polls, the BJP on Thursday also came second in the Maheshtala Assembly bypoll, with its candidate Sujit Ghosh receiving 42,053 votes.

During the convocation on Friday last week, students had staged a protest over shortage in drinking water supply at the event, which led PM Modi, who was present at the ceremony as the university chancellor, to apologize to the students.

As a civic volunteer under Asansol North police station, his schedule in the last few months has been tough. He was among the 80,000 volunteers deployed for panchayat election duty.

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday thanked West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for developing the birthplace of Kazi Nazrul Islam.

Speaking at the special convocation ceremony in Kazi Nazrul Universit at Asansol, the Bangladeshi PM also urged attending students to rise above communalism and uphold the secular fabric of the country.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was greeted by Modi in Bengali, said that India and Bangladesh have already resolved many issues.

The prime minister urged the university and its students to bring 100 or 200 villages under its ambit by 2021 — the centenary year of the varsity.

Around 10,000 post-graduate and 1,000 PhD students of the Visva Bharati University — the only Central Univeersity which has the Prime Minister as its chancellor — will receive their certificates on Friday.

A replica of ‘Padma Boat’, which Rabindranath Tagore used during his frequent visits across undivided Bengal, would be exhibited at the bhavan’s ground floor museum.

This will be the first time a West Bengal chief minister attends the varsity’s convocation since Siddhartha Shankar Ray in the 1970s. Ray, however, was not invited to the dais at the time.

Veteran CPM leader Rabin Deb said that BJP lacked democratic values and was just following in the footsteps of the TMC government.

Students at Visva Bharati University will sing national anthems of both countries, ashram song and one Vedic sloka to welcome Bangladesh PM.

West Bengal panchayat election results: According to the State Election Commission (SEC), counting of votes will continue till Thursday midnight and the results will be clear on Friday.

The BJP’s performance has been better in North Bengal and in Malda, a Muslim majority district and a Congress stronghold. The BJP came second there ahead of Congress and the Left. 

A clash between workers of TMC and BJP broke out in Birbhum district after the latter won Mallarpur Gram Panchayat. Police resorted to lathicharge to bring the situation under control.