West Bengal

22 Nov

Cooch Behar Municipality is trying to get UNESCO recognition for Rasmela

Priyanka BhowmickArt & Culture, North BengalCoochbehar, india, Rasmela

Cooch Behar's Rash Mela is the largest fair in North East India. This year, this fair entered 210 years. In other words, this Rash Mela of Cooch Behar is one of the many ancient fairs. Cooch Behar Municipality has taken a big step with this Ras Mela. Under the leadership of State Eco Tourism Department Chairman Raj Basu, the initial phase of work has started to get Cooch Behar Rasmela recognized by UNESCO. They held a press conference on this matter. Yesterday mayor Rabindra Nath Ghosh was present at this conference. By 2023, the team is aiming for UNESCO's recognition…

20 Nov

Houses gutted in fire after gas cylinders blast in West Bengal’s Siliguri

Business CorrespondentWest Bengalfire break, Siliguri

A huge fire broke out in West Bengal's Siliguri, affecting several houses in the congested area. The blaze turned into danger in ward number 18 under the city's Municipal Corporation. According to sources, the fire affected adjacent residences after gas cylinders burst. 6 fire tenders have arrived at the spot and attempts to control the fire are in process. The sources said, "The area is crowded and the fire officials are facing problems to extinguish the fire."

19 Nov

Calcutta High Court Appoints New Head To Probe West Bengal Teachers’ Job Scam

Business CorrespondentPolitical, West Bengal

Calcutta High Court has appointed senior police officer Ashwin Shenvi as the head of the SIT, investigating the alleged teachers' job scam in the state of West Bengal. Mr Shenvi is a 2006-batch IPS officer from the Haryana cadre. He had joined the Central Bureau of Investigation in the year 2020 and was the SP at Jind, Haryana. "CBI has referred the names of Sudhanshu Khare, Michaelraj S and Ashwin Shenvi. Out of these three names, I select Mr Ashwin Shenvi, who is DIG ACB in CBI Chandigarh, that has vast experience in investigation of corruption cases," the single judge…

19 Nov

Using Urdu language to break barriers and to build bridges

Business CorrespondentEducation, West Bengal

As far as age goes, Sukti Sarkar, a retired banker who is only 14 years old and Bibhabori Bhattacharyya , are 50 years apart but what binds these two people is their fondness for Urdu and the fact that they both learned the language only recently. They are among the nearly 500 people who got benefit or are in the process of getting it from the online courses being conducted by Know Your Neighbour, a social experiment being run in West Bengal to encourage communal harmony, is collaboration with Kolkata’s Maulana Azad College. The classes started as soon as the…

18 Nov

Vande Bharat Express departureing from West Bengal soon

editorIndia, West BengalDelhi, india, Vande Bharat Express, varanasi, West Bengal

For so long, the high-speed 'Vande Bharat' train has either been in Varanasi, the capital of the Prime Minister, or in poll-bound Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat. In the next phase, the Ministry of Railways claims that there is a plan to run at least 5 Vande Bharat trains in East India including West Bengal. Government has announced to run 75 Vande Bharat trains on different routes of the country by August 15. Although the speed limit of this train, which started its first journey between Prime Minister's Lok Sabha seat Varanasi and Delhi about three-and-a-half years ago, is now capped…

18 Nov

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari falls ill on stage in Siliguri

Business CorrespondentHealth, West BengalSiliguri

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari fell sick on a visit to North Bengal. He felt ill after stepping down from the stage. A doctor had been brought to diagnose him, through the green corridor. He had come to lay the foundation stone of a long road from Shiv Mandir in Siliguri to Sevak's Cantonment on Thursday. The ceremony was carried out at Dagapur ground near Darjeeling Junction. Nitin Gadkari was not feeling well on stage. So the ceremony was hurriedly stopped . He was taken the green room for rest. But relaxing in the green room made him feel even sicker.…

16 Nov

Five people from West Bengal died in Mizoram mine collapse

Priyanka Bhowmickaccident, India, West Bengalindia, West Bengal

Five people from Bengal were among those killed in a stone quarry collapse in South Mizoram's Hanthial on Monday. 12 people are expected to die in this incident. BSF has recovered eight bodies so far. One victim is a resident of Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas, while the others are from Tehatta in Nadia. The Tehatta victims - Madan Das (26)of Pipragachi in Chapra, Mintu Mondal (22), Rakesh Biswas (21) and Buddhadev Mondal (25) of Kalitlapara in Tehatta - had gone to work as laborers in Mizoram through a private agency about eight days ago. The name of the fifth…

12 Nov

Long-term covid health problems affect everyone: Study

Priyanka BhowmickHealth, India, North BengalCovid-19, india, PM Modi

People of all ages are at risk of long-term physical and mental health problems after a Covid infection, a study has found. Following Covid-19 infection, there is a significant new-onset illness in children, adolescents and adults across 13 distinct diagnoses and symptom complexes, according to a new study published in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine. Previous studies have established that some people infected with Covid-19 suffer long-term health problems after the acute phase of the disease. However, evidence for the post-acute syndrome is still limited, particularly for children and adolescents. The new study by Martin Rössler of the Technische Universität…

10 Nov

Long risky journey through Baghpool

Priyanka BhowmickNorth Bengal, West Bengalindia, Sevoke Bridge, West Bengal

Three years have passed since the process of construction of an alternative bridge for Sevoke's Coronation Bridge began. But till now the Detailed Project Report (DPR) of this project has not been ready. It is noteworthy that from the year 2019, the paper process of constructing an alternative bridge for the servant started. There are frequent delays in inviting tenders from agencies for the preparation of 'DPR'. The leaders of the Sevoke bridge movement are saying that in this way the danger of Sevak's Baghpool is increasing. According to engineers of the State Public Works Department, if an agency starts…

03 Nov

‘Women and child development Catagory Own the SKOCH award’

editorWest Bengal

The West Bengal government’s Lakshmir Bhandar theme has bagged the SKOCH award within the girls and kid development class. The award could be a recognition for the govt likewise because the nearly 2 large integer girls of the state World Health Organization are sceptered by the theme. The theme in August 2021 to supply support to a lady head of a family within the age bracket of 25-60 years. below the theme, Rs five hundred is given monthly to girls within the general caste class and around Rs 1000 per month to girls within the SC and ST classes. The…