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BJP to reach 1 cr households across Bengal to highlight Mamata 'failures'

The BJP will launch a campaign to highlight alleged misdeeds of the Trinamool Congress dispensation in response to the Mamata Banerjee government's 'Duare Sarkar' programme

Bengal CM Mamata targets Centre for new farm laws, PM Cares Fund

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee hit out at the Centre for forcibly implementing the new farm laws and accused it taking up schemes without consulting the states

TMC alleges BJP captured its offices, claims admin acting as mute spectator

A local TMC leader SK Noor said, "BJP workers captured our Purba Alaichak party office by removing all flags

States must ramp up cold storage system for Covid vaccine: Modi tells CMs

Prime Minister held two meetings through video with eight Chief Ministers and Lieutenant Governors to discuss the coronavirus situation in the states and preparations for vaccine delivery

Ahead of 2021 polls, Mamata announces welfare schemes, bikes for youth

Banerjee, while speaking at a public distribution programme at Khatra in Bankura district, also claimed that the BJP-led central government was not in favour of giving free treatment to COVID patients

WB likely to lose the chance to conduct phase 2 trials of Covid-19 vaccine

West Bengal will likely lose the chance to conduct Phase II clinical trial of Russian Covid-19 vaccine candidate Sputnik V because of the delay in grant of approval by the state government

Appeasement politics hurting West Bengal's glory, says Amit Shah

Stressing that there was a need to restore Bengal's "lost glory", Amit Shah said "appeasement politics" in the state has hurt its age-old tradition of upholding the nation's spiritual consciousness

Bengal logs highest one-day recovery of 4,187 coronavirus patients

West Bengal registered the highest single-day recovery of 4,187 Covid-19 patients, taking the total number of cured people to 350,449, the health department said in a bulletin

BJP's Bengal play

Book review of Mission Bengal: A Saffron Experiment

Bengal CM sanctions compensation for families of boat capsize victims

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday sanctioned a compensation of Rs 2 lakh each to the kin of five people who drowned after two boats capsized in a water body during Durga idol immersion

Unable to find a leader, BJP banks on anti-incumbency to break into Bengal

Unable to find challenger to Bengal CM, many in BJP banking on anti-incumbency

BDO dies of coronavirus in West Bengal, CM Mamata mourns his demise

An official of the West Bengal government succumbed to Covid-19 on Friday, state health department sources said

Number of seats in MBBS course increased to 4,000 in West Bengal: Mamata

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said the number of seats in the MBBS course has increased to 4,000 in the state with the addition of 250 seats in two medical colleges. Banerjee had earlier underscored the need for increasing the number of medical seats in the state. "I am pleased to announce that we now have 4,000 MBBS seats for Bengal's vibrant medical students with the initiation of the first MBBS batch in Purulia Govt MCH consisting of 100 seats & the addition of 150 MBBS seats in Gouri Devi Medical College," Banerjee said on Twitter. Last year, minister of state for health Chandrima Bhattacharya had informed the assembly that the number of MBBS seats in West Bengal was 1,355 when the Trinamool Congress government came to power in the state in 2011.

Mamata urges residents of old age home to stay indoors during Durga Puja

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday urged residents of an old age home in the southern part of the city's Chetla area to stay indoors during the Durga Puja to combat Covid-19

BJP has done everything to divide and rule people of the country: TMC

Retaliating against Nadda's criticism of "divide and rule" by TMC in Bengal, the Banerjee-led party hit back accusing the NDA government at the Centre of doing so to the people of the country

Durga Puja 2020: Mamata holds meeting to prepare crowd management blueprint

State security advisor Surajit Kar Purakayastha was also present in the meeting.

Covid-19 community transmission not happening across country: Vardhan

Vardhan added that as yet, no mutation of the coronavirus has been detected in India that is either more transmission-efficient or more pathogenic

Modi-Shah's Ashwamedha Yagna with NDA almost complete

Modi and Shah's BJP doesn't need the NDA anymore. Advani's experiment is over, used and discarded

Cultural programmes with 150 people allowed during Durga Puja: Mamata

Mamata Banerjee said that cultural programmes with 150 people in attendance will be allowed during Durga Puja, and her government would consider raising the cap to 200 people if the space is bigger

Mamata urges Centre to continue with Kolkata-London direct flights

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said that there is a huge demand for flights to European countries from this part of India and urged the Centre to continue with Kolkata-London direct flight services