West Bengal

01 Mar

West Bengal records 89 new coronavirus cases, existing Covid restrictions to continue till March 15

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Despite the sharp drop in Covid numbers, the nation government on Monday said the night restrictions from nighttime to 5am will proceed until March 15. Barring indispensable services, movement of people, automobiles and all public gatherings will be prohibited in this five-hour period. Mask stays mandatory. The nation stated that owners, employers, administration bodies and supervisors will be accountable for Covid protection measures in all establishments. The midnight-to-5am restrictions had kicked in from February 15 and has led to an average each day prosecution of over 300 people on weekdays and over 400 humans on weekends for violating the night…

01 Mar

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee inaugurates 45th International Kolkata Book Fair

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Underscoring the cultural ties between West Bengal and Bangladesh, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday stated she is blissful that the 45th International Kolkata Book Fair has Bangladesh as the theme united states on the 50th 12 months of its Liberation. Inaugurating the 45th version of the e book honest at the Central Park in Salt Lake, Banerjee said the ties between West Bengal and the sovereign country Bangladesh can't be “measured with a tape”. “You (Bangladesh) have Nazrul (Islam) and we have Rabindranath Tagore as our country wide poets. But they can't be divided by way of any partition,”…

26 Feb

Artists make wall paintings on street exhibition in Kolkata to join people with arts

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Streets of the City of Joy have once once more come alive with gorgeous artworks as the 1/3 edition of Behala Art Fest kickstarted on February 25, in Kolkata’s Behala area. Organised by means of Nutan Sangha, the much-anticipated art festival is showcasing works of numerous universal artists, and will go on until February 27. This year, the theme of the competition is ‘Light and darkness’ with artists sharing their revolutionary thoughts of light and darkness in today’s time. Highlighting subaltern subculture and subaltern art, the festival organisers intend to portray modern-day times, and its politics and culture, at this…

26 Feb

Bengal govt sets up control space to help understudies, individuals stranded in Ukraine

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The Bengal authorities on Friday set up a manipulate room to help college students and human beings from the state, who are presently stranded in war-hit Ukraine. A be aware issued through the state statistics and cultural affairs department stated the 12-hour manipulate room will be purposeful from 9am. "It has been opened below a senior IAS officer and manned by way of WBCS officers for supporting and assisting college students and people stranded from West Bengal in Ukraine," the be aware said. Families of those, who are caught in the war-torn country, can contact authorities on 2214-3526, 1070. The…

23 Feb

Student leader’s death : Two cops suspended, SIT visits casualty’s home

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The metropolis erupted in regularly occurring protests on Tuesday as Left-backed college students and Aliah University college students on the Park Circus campus protested towards the demise of Anis Khan. Central Kolkata came to a standstill with the blockade leaving heaps of home-bound commuters stranded for hours in the Central Business District. Students, who have just started going to faculties after two years, additionally faced shuttle difficulties. Police stated that 58 protesters have been detained and later released on bail. Large components of central and south Kolkata - lying between Park Circus-Moulali, SN Banerjee Road and College Street - have…

21 Feb

West Bengal: Family of dead student looks for replies, says ‘no confidence in police’

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An understudy head of the Indian Secular Front was purportedly killed at Amta in Howrah locale, around 50 km west of Kolkata, by four unidentified individuals in the early long periods of Saturday. While one of the denounced was wearing a police uniform and was conveying a gun, the rest were wearing regalia of city volunteers. Relatives claimed that the casualty Anish Khan was lost from the subsequent floor. Following the episode, understudies of Aliah University obstructed the seven-point Park Circus crossing in Kolkata and took out a flame light walk. A fight broke out when the protestors attempted to…

21 Feb

Protest meet demands withdrawal of Deocha Pachami coal project

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The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, Jai Kisan Andolan and an array of other social associations assembled in Deocha Pachami in Birbhum locale on Sunday to challenge the proposed coal mining project nearby. Prior in February, the associations had held hands and sent off the 'Birbhum Jomi, Jeebon, Jeebika o Prokriti Bachao Mahasabha' to challenge the proposed Deocha Pachami coal mining project and evened out claims of constrained land securing and savagery against tribals and ladies. The associations are requesting a withdrawal of the Deocha Panchami coal project. Avik Saha National Secretary of Jai Kisan Andolan, an association that…

18 Feb

West Bengal: Abhishek Banerjee retains his position as national general secretary of TMC

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Abhishek Banerjee was appointed Trinamool Congress national general secretary a working committee meeting on Kolkata on Friday. Party supremo Mamata Banerjee, chairing the first working committee meeting since all posts were dissolved on February 12, retained nephew Abhishek in a post he held earlier. Emerging out of the meeting, senior party leader Partha Chatterjee said, “Yashwant Sinha, Subrata Bakshi and Chandrima Bhattacharya will be the party national vice-presidents; Sukhendu Sekhar Ray will be the national spokesperson.” The rift inside the party came to the fore on several occasions, the latest being the tweets of Abhishek loyalists on one-man-one-post which the…

18 Feb

West Bengal: 3 Steel Plant Workers Die After Being Stuck Inside Vacuum Oxygen Unit in Durgapur

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At least three people have died and several other workers have fallen ill after a gas leak at Durgapur Steel Plant in West Bengal. Unwell workers have been taken to a local hospital where their conditions was stated to be stable. According to news agency ANI, the three labourers who died were stuck inside a vacuum oxygen unit at steel plant. They were rescued and rushed to hospital but they could not be saved. Relief and rescue work are continuing at the plant. "A High-level enquiry committee has also been immediately constituted to investigate the incident and ascertain the root…

13 Feb

West Bengal: Two killed, one injured while taking selfie on railway tracks

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A total of two people were killed and one was critically injured after being hit by a local train while clicking selfies near a railway bridge over the Cossye river in Midnapore in West Bengal on Saturday. The injured person was rescued by the Railway Police and was rushed to the hospital. Railway Senior Section Engineer Biswajit Bala said, “Everyone is forbidden to climb on this part of the railway line. Despite the ban, many people are taking selfies on the train tracks. However, they did not move and ran along the line. So this accident happened.” The other friend…