Tag: Bengal
Parliament Budget Session Likely To Be Cut Short, Might Conclude On Thursday
As Assembly polls in four states and one union territory is to begin from March 27, the ongoing Budget Session of Parliament is likely to be cut short and concluded on Thursday, sources said. ....
Sharad Pawar To Campaign For Trinamool In Bengal
Despite being part of the Congress-Sena-NCP alliance in the Maharashtra government, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar, who was named star campaigner in West Bengal from the MVA, Pawar will be campaigning for Trinamool Congress next week after Holi. ....
On Poll Rigging Claims, BJP Says ‘Mamata Under Pressure, TMC Knows It’s Losing’
The President of BJP's West Bengal unit Dilip Ghosh said the Trinamool Congress is aware that it is going to lose the assembly elections and is therefore is resorting to poll rigging allegations against them. ....
Nearly 80% Voter Turnout In First Phase Of Bengal Polls
Amid sporadic incidents of violence, an estimated 79.79 per cent of the electorate exercised their franchise till 5.30 pm in the first phase of Assembly elections in West Bengal on Saturday, the Election Commission (EC) officials said here. ....
150-bed Covid Care Centre Opened At Bengaluru Airport
A 150-bed Covid care centre with oxygen supply was opened at the Bengaluru airport on the city's northern outskirts to treat asymptomatic patients with mild hypoxia, said the operator on Wednesday. ....
BJP To Form Govt In Bengal, Retain Power In Assam: Amit Shah
Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government will be formed in West Bengal and the party would retain power for the second time in Asam.....
Massive Surge In Covid Infections Has Bengal Govt On Tenterhooks
With masks vanishing from public life and Covid protocols being ignored in election rallies and meetings there has been a more than 14-fold rise in the number of Covid cases in West Bengal in the last one month. The state government has started imposing restrictions on public life to check the spread of the virus. ....
BJP Shares Audio Chat Of Prashant Kishor Praising PM Narendra Modi
A political controversy erupted in West Bengal during the fourth phase of the elections when BJP's IT cell released an audio tape of Trinamool' election strategist Prashant Kishor where he was heard saying a 'ClubHouse' chat that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is hugely popular in West Bengal and this is one of the factors that will decide which party sweeps the state. ....
Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee Writes To PM Modi Over 'faulty' Vaccine Policy
A day after the Central government announced the 'universal' Covid vaccine policy, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday criticised the Central government, terming policy as "hollow", "without any substance" and "regrettable show of evasion of responsibility by the Centre at the time of crisis". ....
Mamata Banerjee Set To Contest Bypoll On Bhawanipur Seat As Sitting TMC MLA Tenders Resignation
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who lost to BJP's Suvendu Adhikari in Nandigram, is likely to contest from Bhawanipur. ....
