This is the second major protest by ASHA workers in West Bengal this month. On January 7, they had staged a demonstration in front of the Swasthya Bhawan in Salt Lake, demanding a hike in allowances.
Union Minister of State for Railways and Food Processing Industries, Ravneet Singh Bittu, interacted with school students on an Amrit Bharat Express train on Sunday, during the launch of three such trains from West Bengal.
The Beldanga area has witnessed continued tension over the past two days. On Friday, family members of the deceased and local residents blocked National Highway-12, disrupting vehicular movement. Protesters also set tyres on fire on railway tracks under the Sealdah railway division, leadi
Howrah station yard, Sealdah South station yard, Chitpur North Cabin, and different car sheds were also waterlogged due to the heavy rains, according to a press release by the Eastern Railway (ER).
In his letter, Chowdhury highlighted the hardships faced by passengers, especially from backward districts like Murshidabad, calling the lack of toilet facilities on these trains an "egregious act of inhumanity" by the railway authorities.
In a post on social media platform X, Adhikari alleged that the Mamata Banerjee-led government had tried to derail the Sealdah-Esplanade stretch of the East-West Metro and accused her administration of non-cooperation and inefficiency.
He visited the Jessore Road Metro Station, where he inaugurated the Noapara-Jai Hind Bimanbandar metro service from Jessore Road Metro Station and Sealdah-Esplanade metro service and the Beleghata-Hemanta Mukhopadhyay metro service.
In a post on social media platform X, the Prime Minister wrote, "I am eager to be among @BJP4Bengal Karyakartas at a rally in Kolkata. With each passing day, public anger against the TMC is increasing. West Bengal is eagerly looking towards the BJP with hope because of our development age
To fulfil the growing requirements of suburban passengers, Eastern Railway is preparing to run Air Conditioned Electric Multiple Unit (AC EMU) locals soon, Eastern Railways said in a press release.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers in Kolkata staged a rally from Sealdah Railway Station to the Deputy High Commission of Bangladesh there on Monday, protesting the vandalism of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore's ancestral home in Bangladesh.
The father of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape and murder victim expressed deep frustration with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday, alleging discrepancies in the agency's reports.