Tag Archives: Bengal

[ad_1] New Delhi: Thursday afternoon (April 30) saw nonsense on the Wikipedia profile of the West Bengal BJP state president and deputy Dilip Ghosh. He mistakenly identified Dilip Ghosh as the Chief Minister of West Bengal. This information then went viral on social media. When contacted, the Midnapore MP said …

[ad_1] West Bengal police detained the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday for tweeting a bogus publication amid blocking the coronavirus COVID-19. On Thursday morning, the West Bengal BJP released a tweet with a report that the state government is bringing 3,000 students on three buses. …

[ad_1] New Delhi: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Monday (April 27) that West Bengal is in favor of extending the blockade until May 21 after attending Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s video conference with senior ministers. Mamata Banerjee said: “Since today’s meeting with the Prime Minister, the feeling I had from …

[ad_1] Editor’s Note: This series will focus on the difficulties faced by the medical fraternity in COVID-19 hospitals, their hours of service, access to protective equipment, the facilities they obtain during quarantine, how their families are coping with this new reality in different states of the country. This is the …

[ad_1] As blame game and bureaucratic turmoil continued between the Center and the West Bengal government, a core team on a visit to Kolkata and Siliguri to assess the COVID-19 situation on Saturday marked the lack of cooperation. by the state to provide logistical support and other relevant information. In …

[ad_1] By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: April 25, 2020 9:36:16 pm According to the Ministry of Health, West Bengal has 571 cases and has recorded 18 deaths so far. With more than 1,000 people testing positive for the new coronavirus (Covid-19) since yesterday, India’s count rose …

[ad_1] KOLKATA: The ruling Trinamool Congress on Saturday described the two inter-ministerial central teams (IMCT) that visited West Bengal to assess the situation of COVID-19 as “the most insensitive team in India”, which it said has tried to spread the political virus “blatantly”. Core teams have been visiting hospitals and …

[ad_1] KOLKATA: By making a clear distinction between “died of Covid” and “died with Covid,” Bengal officially set its death toll from the virus at age 18 on Friday, according to an audit of 57 cases by an expert committee that classified 39 of those deaths as caused by “severe …

[ad_1] KOLKATA: The confrontation between the West Bengal government and Raj Bhavan escalated further on Friday with Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar accusing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of “explicitly appeasing” the minority community. Referring to Banerjee’s Thursday letter to him where she accused him of “repeatedly interfering” in the running of his …

[ad_1] KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused governor Jagdeep Dhankhar of repeatedly interfering in the functioning of the state administration, and asked him to judge who has “crossed the limit of constitutional dharma and decency” between the two constitutional functionaries. Banerjees letter comes in the backdrop …