"The preparation for the Gangasagar mela this year started not from the last one or two months, but from the last five to six months. Many departments are involved in its preparation, like the PHC, PWD, Irrigation, Disaster Management, Transport, Panchayat. There is a big role of NGOs," Sout
While speaking on Rahul Gandhi's 'Bharat Jodo Nyaya Yatra', West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Sunday said whether it is successful or unsuccessful, this is a fight for ideology.
While all eyes are on Ayodhya as the city prepares to host a long line of dignitaries, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ahead of the opening of the grand Ram Temple on January 22, a popular pilgrimage site in another part of the country has also decked up to receive devotees and pi
"5 teams of NDRF are deployed here. 200 personnel are a part of the teams deputed here. Drone cameras are being used for security and surveillance," Deputy Commandant, NDRF 2nd Battalion, Pushpendra Kumar, said.
Lashing out at the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal over the Purulia incident, where a group of Sadhus was allegedly thrashed by a mob, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday said that the law and order in the state is in very bad condition.
Notably, a video went viral on Friday that showed a group of seers being purportedly stripped and assaulted by a mob in the Purulia district of West Bengal.
"A case has been initiated on the complaint by the Sadhus. 12 people have been arrested so far and an investigation is underway. We have taken some people into police custody for further investigation," Purulia SP Avijit Banerjee said.
"Appeasement politics has created such an environment....The question is how Bengal is being driven by this appeasement politics. And why is there such anti-Hindu thinking?" Thakur said speaking to reporters on Saturday.
"West Bengal is the land where 'Maa Kali' is worshipped in every year. Bengal is the land where Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was born..where great saints like Bankim Chatterjee, Rabindra Nath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda and Aurobindo Ghosh were born. Today, the kind of anti-Hindu environment the Ch
Condemning the attack on a group of sadhus (ascetics) in West Bengal's Purulia, Shri Ram Janambhoomi Teerth Kshetra chief priest, Acharya Satyendra Das slammed state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and alleged that whenever Bengal CM sees 'Bhagwa' colour she gets angry.
On Friday, the city saw the season's first cold wave day, which, according to the India Meterological Department, is recorded when the minimum temperature goes below 4 degrees Celsius.
"v Fog conditions observed (at 0530 hours IST of today, 13.01.2024): Dense to Very Dense fog reported in isolated pockets of Punjab and East Uttar Pradesh; Dense fog in isolated pockets over Haryana, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Assam, Gangetic West Bengal and Andra Pradesh;" the IMD said i