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Rabindra Nath Sinha
After Court Action and Fine, a Restrained Mamata Takes to Bhowanipore Bypoll Campaign
20 Sep 2021
Meanwhile, her ministers are seen reiterating an oft-repeated poll promise of industrial and business growth.
Sandip Chakraborty
West Bengal: Farmers Demand MSP as Potato Prices hit Rock Bottom
13 Sep 2021
Potato farmers in West Bengal have been hit by low prices, with a bag (50 kilogram) of their produce getting sold at just Rs 260.
PTI
Bengal: Bypoll in Bhabanipur Assembly Seat on Sept 30, Mamata Banerjee to be in Fray
04 Sep 2021
Polling for three "deferred adjourned" elections -- Samserganj and Jangirpur in West Bengal and Pipli in Odisha -- also on same date.
PTI
Calcutta University Professor Booked for Allegedly Threatening to Kill Mamata Banerjee: Police
28 Aug 2021
Arindam Bhattacharya, professor in the Zoology department, claimed a ‘conspiracy’, adding that an old personal conversation between him and a friend was made public on social media.
Rabindra Nath Sinha
Bengal Industrial Promotion Board Meaningless with Hands-off Land Policy
28 Aug 2021
Mamata has to spell out her government’s land acquisition policy clearly to assure big-ticket investors
Rabindra Nath Sinha
'Normalcy' Not Without 'Complications': Bengal's Hill Politics and a Permanent Political Solution
23 Aug 2021
With parties talking of land pattas, job creation and restoring Darjeeling’s lost glory, 'we are breathing democracy after a long time', says veteran.
Sandip Chakraborty
Inadequate Relief Measures Anger Flood Affected People of Bengal
03 Aug 2021
The lack of proper relief measures has caused the locals in the worst-hit regions to protest against the local TMC leaders and administration.
Dr Sukhbilas Barma
The Feasibility of Bifurcating West Bengal And Creating a Separate State of North Bengal
29 Jul 2021
The recent calls for bifurcation of Bengal may be a game plan projected by BJP after it faced utter failure in the recent Assembly election in West Bengal, with the objective of creating problems for…
Sandip Chakraborty
Information Assistants Launch New Union in Bengal in Face of Precarious Livelihood
26 Jul 2021
Over time, the income potential of Tathyamitras or information assistants has been significantly reduced along with the scope of e-services they provided.
Sandip Chakraborty
West Bengal: Once Top in Output, State Fishing Coops Face Twin Onslaught from Weather, ‘Influential Individuals’
19 Jul 2021
Over 27 lakh fishermen, several of them in small businesses, face serious livelihood threats as cooperative laws are being eased in violation of the West Bengal Fisheries Act, 1984, say union leaders…