This comes just a day after eight other TMC councillors of the Halisahar municipality rejoined the Mamata Banerjee-led party, saying they had been forced to join hands with the BJP.
The Teesta river is flowing above the danger mark after the cloudburst, officials in Sikkim capital Gangtok said.
Junior doctors in West Bengal are on strike since Tuesday demanding better security at workplace after two of their colleagues were attacked at the NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.
The assault left an intern severely injured, resulting in a strike that has spread to almost all state-run medical colleges and hospitals.
Even as political parties are busy extracting political mileage out of the virtual shutdown, thousands of patients and their family members who have travelled from remote parts of rural Bengal, are facing a harrowing time.
Senior BJP leader Mukul Roy’s recent statement has kicked up a storm in the Darjeeling region in north Bengal.
Having replaced the Left and Congress as the main challengers to Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress, the BJP is gearing up for the next Assembly polls in the state which are scheduled for 2021.
Bhutia, who as India’s legendary footballer, took more than two decades to chart his meteoritic rise to stardom, was on May 23 felled by the voters of Sikkim.
Chamling’s “invincibility” was put to test on April 11, 2019 when the Himalayan state went for simultaneous Assembly and Lok Sabha polls.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has steamrolled the Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress bastion as trends of counting of votes indicate.
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