Tag: West Bengal

Kolkata: Eight hours after voting began for Assembly polls on Saturday, West Bengal seems to be showing an unprecedented enthusiasm for the electoral exercise, with around 55.76 per cent voter turnout already recorded in the first phase of polling. More than half of the 73 lakh electorate in the 30 Assembly constituencies had already cast […]

Kolkata: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president J.P. Nadda’s convoy was allegedly attacked by Trinamool Congress (TMC) supporters in South 24-Parganas district of West Bengals when the BJP chief along with other party leaders was heading out to attend a rally on Thursday. The incident took place near Shirakol area when Nadda was on his […]

Kolkata: Expressing concern over the attack on BJP president JP Nadda’s convoy, when it was on its way to Diamond Harbour on Thursday, West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar accused the state administration of failing to act in spite of his alerting the chief secretary and the director general of police. The governor tweeted that he […]

New Delhi: Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC) has commenced oil production from the Asokenagar-1 well, Bengal Basin in West Bengal’s 24 Paragana districts. In a statement, the public sector energy major said that Union Petroleum & Natural Gas Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday dedicated the Bengal Basin, the eight producing basin of India […]