West Bengal

COVID-19: India records 23,950 new cases

12:11 pm December 23, 2020

New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,00,99,066 with 23,950 new infections being reported in a day, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 96.63 lakh, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The death toll increased to 1,46,444 with 333 new fatalities, the data updated […]

Jupiter, Saturn ‘merge’ in rare cosmic event

10:40 pm December 21, 2020

Kolkata: Space enthusiasts had the opportunity to watch a rare celestial event on Monday evening as the Jupiter and the Saturn appeared to merge and looked like a single bright star, in what is called a conjunction. People gathered to watch the phenomenon, which took place after about 400 years, on rooftops and open grounds in different […]

Mamata writes to Tomar for funds for disbursement among farmers

10:10 pm December 21, 2020

Kolkata: A day after Union Home Minister Amit Shah blamed Mamata Banerjee of not giving Rs 6000 to farmers under the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme, the West Bengal chief minister Monday shot off a letter to the union agriculture minister for transferring the requisite fund for disbursement among farmers. In her letter to Agriculture […]

Amit Shah has lunch at house of farmer in Bengal

7:42 pm December 19, 2020

Midnapore (WB): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday had lunch at the house of a farmer in West Bengal’s Paschim Medinipur district as part of his exercise to strengthen relations with the agriculturists ahead of the Assembly elections in the state. Shah’s move assumes significance in the wake of the ongoing farmers’ protests in […]

HM’s remark against custodial torture, a welcome move

Get over politics of regionalism: Amit Shah

2:28 pm December 19, 2020

Midnapore (WB): Home Minister Amit Shah said on Saturday that revolutionary Khudiram Bose is as much a pride for the whole of India as he is of Bengal, hitting out at those indulging in “narrow” politics of regionalism. Garlanding the statue of Bose at the freedom fighter’s ancestral residence here, Shah said that he has […]