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03 Jul

Railway connectivity towards NE gets a boost with commissioning of double line

editor0 CommentsIndia, North Eastindianrailway, n.f railway

In both these sections, double lines have been commissioned along with Railway Electrification. Completion of these doubling sections will help operation of more freight traffic to & from Northeast region. The entire work is completed during the Covid pandemic situation by observing necessary safety protocols by the Northeast Frontier Railway. An official of N.F. Railway said that, Jalpaiguri Road - Y Leg section was the only super critical work left to be completed in N.F. Railway. “This section has an important bridge of 970 mt length (20 spans) on the river Teesta. This section was a bottleneck as double lines…

03 Jul

IDP to acquire British Council’s IELTS business

editor0 CommentsBusinessBusiness

IDP and British Council, two partners of IELTS, the world’s most popular high-stakes English language test, have announced that British Council will sell its IELTS business in India to IDP. This means that all IELTS tests in India will be delivered by IDP. Under the terms of the agreement, IDP will acquire 100 per cent of British Council’s India IELTS business for £130 million on a debt free, cash free basis. The terms also outline that British Council employees working on IELTS in India will become part of the IDP team. The International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is the world’s…

03 Jul

BJP denies Dhankhar a chance to read his full speech at Assembly

editor0 CommentsPolitical, West BengalGOVERNMENT, POLITICS

The BJP had moved heaven, earth and Narendra Modi in the hope of winning 200-plus seats in the 17th Bengal Legislative Assembly. When the august House convened on Friday, the BJP’s 70-plus members moved heaven and earth to make their presence felt and ended up stealing the governor’s 15 minutes of fame. Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar was unable to fully read out his address because of protests from the Opposition benches. Dhankhar spent barely eight minutes inside the House after his ceremonial entry — escorted by Speaker Biman Banerjee and chief minister Mamata Banerjee — around 1.58pm. When he rose to…

03 Jul

Union health ministry decided would set up two oxygen plants at north Bengal hospitals

editor0 CommentsCovid-19, Health, North Bengal, West BengalNorth Bengal, Oxygen Plants, Union Health Ministry

The Union health ministry has assigned two central agencies to set up two oxygen plants at the district hospitals of Darjeeling and Kalimpong and decided conduct the projects. On Friday, the BJP MP of Darjeeling Raju Bista said that Pressure Swing Adsorption i.e. medical oxygen generator plants which would be irst-of-its-kind facility in the hills,would be available at the hospitals very soon. The MP, Raju Bista has said that I had written a letter to the Prime Minister , mentioning that and requested him for oxygen plants, one each in these two places and another in Siliguri where patients from…

02 Jul

Ex-Haryana Chief Minister OP Chautala Walks Out Of Tihar Jail

editor0 CommentsIndia, PoliticalINDIA, POLITICS

Former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala was on Friday released from Tihar jail where he was serving a ten-year sentence after his conviction in a corruption case. Chautala, his son Ajay, and 53 others were convicted on January 13, 2013, by a Delhi court for illegally recruiting 3,206 basic teachers in Haryana in 1999-2000 when the INLD chief was the chief minister. A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe was ordered by the Supreme Court on a petition by IAS officer Sanjeev Kumar, who accused the leader of taking bribes to recruit teachers and said he was forced to…

02 Jul

Drone Seen Over High Commission In Islamabad, India Protests

editor0 CommentsIndia, InternationalINDIAPAKISTAN, protest

India has registered a strong protest with Pakistan foreign office after a drone was spotted hovering over the Indian high commission in Islamabad. There is no official comment on the incident yet.The incident came to light amid growing concerns in the security establishment in India after explosives-laden drones were used to carry out an attack on the Jammu Air Force station on June 27.According to security officials, it was the first instance of suspected Pakistan-based terrorists deploying unmanned aerial vehicles to strike at vital installations in India. "On Saturday at about 22:15 hours while we had a function underway near…

02 Jul

Women in Turkey protest against withdrawal from gender protection treaty

editor0 CommentsInternationalinternational, Women’s safety

Women marched in Istanbul and other cities late Thursday to protest Turkey's formal exit from a European treaty aimed at preventing violence against women, saying the move stripped them of critical protection at a time when femicides are on the rise. Turkey signed the treaty, called the Istanbul Convention, in 2011.In March, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued an unexpected decree announcing Turkey’s intention to withdraw from the treaty, which he and members of his Islamist party have framed as part of a Western plot aimed at harming conservative notions of family and encouraging homosexuality. Ankara’s exit from the treaty took…

02 Jul

Health Ministry joins social media platform to spread Covid vax awareness

editor0 CommentsCovid-19Covid-19 vaccine, The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHWF) partnered with Indic language social media platform, ShareChat and short video app Moj to organise a webinar to spread awareness about Covid appropriate behaviour and the world’s largest vaccination drive. The webinar aimed to make influencers act as catalysts, and to educate and share reliable information with their community of followers. The webinar encouraged the social influencers to act as advocates to amplify and share accurate and credible information on Covid-19, counter vaccine hesitancy and misinformation. ShareChat and Moj’s Chief Commercial Officer Ajit Varghese said: “We are excited to work with the…

02 Jul

Bagrakote tea estate new firm takes charge, reopens after six years

editor0 CommentsIndiaBagrakote, Tea Estate

One of the premium gardens in the Dooars , Bagrakote tea estate had been closed by the management six years ago,which was reopened on Thursday. The estate is located in the Malbazar subdivision of Jalpaiguri district and had 2,000 workers. The Duncans management had abandoned the Bagrakote garden in April 2015. On Thursday, representatives of Tea & Beverage Company — the new firm from Calcutta took over the estate hat had earlier been owned by the Duncans Goenka Group. The official added that on Sunday A meeting was held in the state labour department’s office in Siliguri it was decided…

02 Jul

Bengal post-poll violence: People were dying, govt in denial mode

editor0 CommentsBreaking News, Political, West BengalMamata Banerjee, TMC, west bengal

In a major embarrassment to the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government, the Calcutta High Court has instructed the police to register all the cases pertaining to post-poll violence in the state. The Calcutta HC, after reading the National Human Rights Commission report on post-poll violence, has directed the police to register cases in all matters which have either been reported to it or have been placed before NHRC or any other authority/Commission, get statements of victims recorded under Section 164 of CrPC. Acknowledging the violence, the HC also finds Mamta Banerjee Government on the wrong foot and in denial mode,…