International commercial river voyage has started again via the Brahmaputra river after seven decades. A cargo barge has started its journey towards Pangaon port of Bangladesh carrying 540 metric tonnes of methanol from Dibrugarh of Assam. Those concerned have informed that this is the first incident of commercial river voyage directly from Assam towards any port of Bangladesh after the independence of India.
Nine Bangladeshi nationals, including a child, were killed and several others injured in a devastating fire at a hotel on Mirza Ghalib Street in Kolkata's New Market area early on Wednesday, August 19 . The victims, six men, two women and a child, had all travelled to Kolkata for medical treatment and were staying at the hotel .
Already reeling from a factional split after its electoral setback in West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress now faces fresh anxiety over control of its bank accounts.
Amid ongoing instability in West Bengal's political arena, Mamata Banerjee has taken a major organisational step, dissolving all committees and frontal organisations of the Trinamool Congress following internal discord, questions over leadership and discontent among MLAs.
13 more full ministers, 3 ministers of state with independent charge and 19 ministers of state have taken oath in the cabinet of the state government of West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, India. With the inclusion of 35 new ministers and ministers of state, the total strength of Suvendu's cabinet has reached 41.
Tensions have escalated in West Bengal ahead of the announcement of results for the 294-seat assembly election scheduled for May 4. The Trinamool Congress has gone on high alert after several exit polls predicted a win for the BJP. Alleging attempts to rig the vote counting process, the party has intensified security at all counting centres. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee herself spent four hours at an EVM strongroom in her Bhabanipur constituency.