Author: Md Nasimuddin
Total contributions to the Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM CARES Fund) fell to Rs 479.96 crore in financial year 2024-25. Its closing balance, however, touched an all-time high of Rs 8,452.06 crore as the spending, too, fell to a five-year low of Rs 87.85 lakh.
The BJP government in West Bengal has completed its first 100 days in office, and the party is now taking its report card directly to the people, planning to reach at least four crore voters across the state over the next seven to 10 days.
The Jharkhand Cabinet’s decision to cancel the JSSC-CGL examination has triggered an uproar among candidates who had already cleared the exam and were posted across the state.
The BJP on Monday announced its new national team under party president Nitin Nabin, bringing in many new faces and some prominent leaders like former Union minister Smriti Irani as general secretary and former RSS functionary Ram Madhav as vice president.
Bangladesh all-rounder Mehidy Hasan Miraz is aiming to secure a series victory after Bangladesh defeated Australia by nine wickets at Darwin, marking a historic achievement for the team. The match saw a commanding performance, highlighted by Hasan Mahmud’s nine wickets, Miraz’s all-round contributions, and a century by Tanzid Hasan.
“I was never involved in corruption. It was a blunder to join politics,” states the suicide note of the deceased former deputy speaker of West Bengal Assembly and ex-Trinamool Congress MLA from Rampurhat in Birbhum district, Asish Banerjee, who was found hanging at an office of the party on Sunday morning, police sources said.
The monsoon session of the Parliament was close to a washout. On paper, the government passed 12 bills in three-and-a-half weeks, but most went through without debate as protests and disruptions dominated the proceedings. Much of what shaped the session happened outside the House, leaving both the Opposition and the government to assess what the protests had achieved.
Chandra Kumar Bose announced plans on August 11, 2026, to launch a new political outfit named the Azad Hind Party. The 66-year-old is the grandnephew of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
The West Bengal Assembly, on Wednesday, passed two delimitation bills related to the state’s municipal corporations. The first is the Howrah Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2026, and the second is the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2026. The bills were introduced during a special one-day Assembly session.
Former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday (August 11, 2026) held a protest next to a statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in Kolkata’s Shyambazar area over controversial remarks made against Bose by a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Rajya Sabha MP.