Grief-stricken parents of the RG Kar medical college victim on Saturday said they were reaching out to different political parties to join the August 9 Nabanna Abhijan (march to West Bengal secretariat) demanding justice for the medic who was raped-murdered at her workplace exactly one year ago.
Speaking Bengali in Kolkata’s civic body meetings is now no longer a choice, but a rule. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has made it mandatory for all councillors to use Bengali during monthly meetings and question sessions.
A highly emotional mission to symbolically name a hitherto unnamed Himalayan peak in honour of the RG Kar doctor who was raped and killed in Kolkata last year is about to begin with a multidisciplinary team of mountaineers, scientists, and medical professionals travelling to the remote Tso-Moriri region in Ladakh’s Leh district.
Ahead of Durga Puja, West Bengal’s chief minister Mamata Banerjee may increase the financial grant. This expectation is held by many puja committees in West Bengal. The crucial meeting with the Chief Minister and other festival organisers will be held on 31st July, at Kolkata’s Netaji Indoor Stadium to finalise the plans.
Quoting a recent report of internationally acclaimed Human Rights Watch, West Bengal chief minister slammed BJP-led Centre for harassment of Bengalis tagging them with Bangladeshis. She referred the HRW findings in her X handle post reports of harassment of Bengalis in Haryana.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will hold her first rally against “linguistic terrorism” in Bengal’s Birbhum district on Monday, which she calls “second language movement” against torture and harassment on the Bengali-speaking migrants in BJP-ruled states.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) began training Booth Level Officers in West Bengal on Saturday, while concerns have been raised that a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls being conducted in adjacent poll-bound Bihar will also be conducted in the state. West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Agarwal did not rule out during the training session that SIR would be conducted in the state as well.
With less than a year left for the Assembly Election in West Bengal, the Election Commission (EC) has directed the Mamata Banerjee government to “delink” the office of Chief Electoral Officer (West Bengal) from its home department, create a election department with financial autonomy and fill up the vacant posts under it.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced a new programme titled “Amader Para, Amader Somadhan” aimed at resolving minor local issues in villages across the state.
