Topic: West Bengal
Ganga mission to now work on hilsa to improve its numbers, project to ranch and tag the fish
Under three-year Hilsa Improvement Programme, NMCG will monitor the migration pattern of hilsa through tagging & ranching among a slew of other initiatives.
Durga to slay ‘Coronasura’ this year as Kolkata artisans theme their idols on pandemic
In face of Covid & dipping business, Kumartuli artisans are undeterred as they are working on several ideas based on the pandemic to make the idols look fresh and attractive.
21-year-old Bengal woman was part of 70 jihadi social media groups, says NIA charge sheet
Tania Parvin, 21, was arrested in March for being a Lashkar operative and trying to ‘honey trap’ Indian armed forces personnel online.
Mamata transfers top IPS officers, including director of her own security
The BJP says these transfers were made keeping next year’s assembly elections in mind, but senior civil servants called it a ‘routine’ organisational rejig.
Mamata Banerjee’s govt driven by anti-Hindu mindset, alleges BJP chief Nadda
Nadda accused Banerjee of 'imposing a lockdown' on the day of Ram Mandir bhoomi pujan and asserted that it was withdrawn due to Bakrid.
Minor tribal sisters gang raped in West Bengal, both consume poison, one dies
The sisters, aged 16 and 14, had gone out with some youths on 4 September and went missing for two days, the family said. They also said the two consumed poison after coming back home.
How much do Bengalis crave Bangladeshi hilsa? Enough to smuggle 2,800 kg during pandemic
BSF has seized 2,800 kg of hilsa since February, 8 years after Bangladesh banned it. It is considered a delicacy in Bengal, and the fish is selling for Rs 3,000/kg in Kolkata markets and online.
How Sunny Leone and Mia Khalifa made it to Bengal college merit lists
At least 8 colleges across Bengal have suffered on account of an alleged cyber prank that saw their admission merit lists manipulated to reflect names of famous personalities.
BJP MP Arjun Singh falsely claims Kali temple idol was burned by ‘religious group’ in Bengal
In a statement, temple authorities in Murshidabad's Alampur Kali Maa Nimtala Kali Mandir said the fire was an accident and there was no communal angle to it.
Bengal gets nodal officer to coordinate between state, Kolkata police, new post creates flutter
Kalighat OC Santanu Sinha Biswas will have to coordinate between Bengal & Kolkata police on certain matters. CM Mamata Banerjee’s house comes under Biswas’s jurisdiction.
Listen to Mohan Bhagwat’s Dussehra speech. You won’t say RSS lacks intellectual bandwidth
Mainstream Indian media used to denigrate and ridicule RSS. But it is now publishing its chief Mohan Bhagwat’s statements as front-page news.
Iraq PM Mustafa al-Kadhimi bets big on economic reforms
Kadhimi's govt is pushing a soup-to-nuts overhaul in the next three to five years. The path of least resistance would have been to wait until the general election next summer.
Defence
India & US agree on deeper cooperation in Indo-Pacific as Rajnath meets Mark Esper
The hour-long meeting between Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his US counterpart Mark Esper came a day before the bilateral 2+2 ministerial dialogue in Delhi.
Trump or Biden? Doesn’t matter to India-US ties as they’re in a full, strategic embrace
Pompeo & Esper’s visit to India for the 2+2 talks is proof that old hypocrisies are history, and supreme national interest has again driven a strategic choice.