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14 Aug

Actress Madhumita Sarcar Inaugurates Siliguri’s First D’SIGNIA Store

editor0 CommentsBusiness, Entertainment, North Bengal, West Bengal

Senco Gold & Diamonds have launched their premium luxury showroom - D’SIGNIA in Siliguri, West Bengal on 13th August. The new showroom is located at Sevoke Road and is the first D’SIGNIA store by Senco Gold & Diamonds in North Bengal and fifth such store nationally. Renowned actress and model, Madhumita Sarcar inaugurated the new store at a glittering event at the city. Mr. Dhaval Raja, CGM – Sales, Senco Gold & Diamonds was also present on the occasion. The new D’Signia store, spread across 3000 sq. ft area, will offer a wide range of elegantly designed jewellery collections for…

11 Aug

Mamata Banerjee visits flood-affected areas in West Bengal and slams the Centre for delayed the approval of the Ghatal Master Plan

editor0 CommentsWest BengalCM

AGENCY: Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of West Bengal, visited flood-affected regions in Paschim Medinipur district on Tuesday, saying that the Centre's delay in approving the Ghatal Master Plan had resulted in the area being flooded every year. According to the Ghatal Master Plan, a variety of projects, include found that the area the world's rivers, repairing canals, and constructing a dam on the Shilabati river, might be conducted. Banerjee, who waded through floodwaters in the Ghatal Municipality, said she may send a delegation of ministers, MPs, and MLAs to New Delhi to press the Centre to approve the subject.…

02 Aug

Khela Hobe’ will be remembered forever, says Mamata with a football

editor0 CommentsWest BengalMamta banerjee, west bengal

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was seen in action with a football as she launched the 'Khela Hobe' programme at Netaji Indoor Stadium in Kolkata on Monday. The Bengal chief minister was seen playing with a football at the event where she said the slogan 'Khela Hobe', which became an anthem of sorts during the state assembly election that took place earlier this year, will be popular across India. "Believe it or not, Khela Hobe has become very popular. The slogan was raised in Parliament too and soon it'll be popular across India," Mamata Banerjee said at the event.…

30 Jul

Mamata meets Gadkari, requests for e-vehicle manufacturing industry in Bengal

editor0 CommentsWest BengalMamata Banerjee, west bengal

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari in New Delhi on July 28 and discussed with him several infrastructure projects in a bid to invite global investors to the State. She told the Union Minister that it would be good if West Bengal gets an electric vehicle manufacturing industry. The Chief Minister also said the State requires proper roads as it borders Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and northeastern States. Ms. Banerjee, who is in Delhi to initiate talks with opposition parties to stitch together a united front against the ruling BJP, brought up pending road and…

28 Jul

Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee meets PM Narendra Modi

editor0 CommentsIndia, Political, West BengalMAMATA BANARJEE, Naredndra Modi

On Tuesday West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. This is Mamata's first visit to the national capital since Trinamool Congress returned to power in the assembly polls earlier this year. Her visit has coincided with the Monsoon Session of Parliament in which the Opposition parties are protesting on a range of issues including the allegations of surveillance through Pegasus spyware, price rise. Sharma told the media that he and Mamata Banerjee have worked together for years. I appreciate her for how she fought the recent election and won. She has come to Delhi…

28 Jul

Kolkata boy makes sculpture of a Horse-drawn tram

editor0 CommentsLifestyle, West Bengal

Trams are the oldest existing tram network operating in India, and oldest operating tramway in Asia. Calcutta Tramways Company (CTC) which later became West Bengal Transport Corporation (WBTC) 1902 started in electric tramway in India. But even before that Kolkata used to have Horse-drawn trams. The first horse-drawn trams in India ran for 2.4 miles (3.9 km) between Sealdah and Armenian Ghat Street on 24 February 1873. The service was discontinued on 20 November of that year. An artist from Kolkata has made a sculpture of the “Horse-drawn tram”. Joydeb Shil, a resident of Madhugar, Dumdum of Kolkata is a sculpture artist. He was fascinated…

26 Jul

Pegasus case: West Bengal becomes the first state to order probe

editor0 CommentsIndia, West BengalMamata Banerjee, pegasus

The Pegasus row erupted last Sunday before the beginning of the current monsoon session of Parliament after an international investigative consortium reported that India was among the countries that used phone hacking software to potentially target politicians, journalists and activists, West Bengal has ordered an inquiry into the Pegasus snooping row that has rocked the nation since July 18, becoming the first state to do so, said chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday. “The Cabinet has approved the appointment of a commission of inquiry comprising former Supreme Court judge, Justice (retd) MB Lokur and retired chief justice of Calcutta high…

26 Jul

Mamata forms first Pegasus probe panel ahead of Delhi visit

editor0 CommentsWest BengalCM Mamata Banerjee, Pegasus probe

Ahead of her scheduled Delhi visit where she claimed of having an appointment with the Prime Minister, chief minister Mamata Banerjee has constituted a committee to investigate snooping charges through Pegasus spyware in Bengal. The probe committee will comprise two retired judges – Justices MB Lokur and Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya. Trinamul Congress has decried such acts during the Monsoon session of the Parliament assuming that the central government will take action on the allegations, she said, adding that since the Centre is unperturbed, she had formed the commission before her Delhi visit. The Trinamul supremo had attacked the Narendra Modi-led Centre…

24 Jul

West Bengal: In Nadia, a fake SSKM doctor is caught by police

editor0 CommentsCrime, West Bengal

On Friday afternoon, a fake doctor was arrested from a private chamber near Kalyani station in Nadia for allegedly posing as a professor at SSKM Hospital. Albert Russell Faruki, a resident of Kalyani, has worked as consultant gastroenterology there for the past ten years. “Following information from the West Bengal Doctors' Forum, we have arrested the accused who was allegedly practicing medicine without an MBBS degree,” a police officer said. He didn't have a doctor's registration number. The fraudulent doctor and his collaborators will face legal consequences.” According to sources, Faruki's prescription raised concerns among some physicians, who wrote a…

24 Jul

Mamata Banerjee elected Trinamool Parliamentary Party chairperson

editor0 CommentsPolitical, West BengalMamata Banerjee

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was unanimously chosen as the chairperson of its Parliamentary Party placing her in a pivotal position to coordinate with the other opposition parties. After TMC’s victory in the West Bengal Assembly elections in May this year, the party has been positioning itself as a unifier for all opposition parties, a role that the Congress as the single largest opposition party has been playing so far. The Congress often finds itself constrained since it is a political opponent to many of the regional parties in different States. Party’s Rajya Sabha leader MP Derek O'Brien at…