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KOLKATA: Seuli Saha, the minister of state for panchayat & rural development (P&RD), unveiled the West Bengal Panchayat Management System (WBPMS) on Tuesday. The online platform is designed to streamline and digitize all development programs, schemes, and activities undertaken by the three tiers of Panchayati Raj Institutions.A key feature of this module is the digitization of the Monthly Report...

NEW DELHI: A plumber lost his life in West Delhi's Narayana area on Monday when an elevator suddenly started moving. The incident occurred in a multi-story building's elevator, which the plumber had entered to clear water that had accumulated inside.According to police reports, the victim was identified as Sanjay, a resident of Rajeev Camp.A senior officer explained that while Sanjay was inspecting the...

KOLKATA: Number of cadaver organ donations in Bengal is set to rise from 15 in 2022 to at least 18 to 19 this year - an increment which is encouraging but could have been better, felt experts at a seminar on organ donation held at a city private hospital on Saturday. It stressed on the need for more brain death declarations to increase the number of deceased organ donations in which Bengal has fallen...

KOLKATA: Kolkata and Bengal could end up with a monsoon rainfall deficit this year despite a 60% rain surplus in September and a low-pressure formation over the Bay of Bengal, which promises "enhanced rainfall" in the next few days.Officially, monsoon withdraws from Bengal around October 10 after it arrives in early June. By Friday, Bengal had received 1,186.2mm rain against the normal count of...

KOLKATA: West Bengal Governor Dr CV Ananda Bose on Monday cancelled his scheduled USA trip to attend the World Culture Festival as he felt that it would not be appropriate to accept foreign hospitality when the state is facing financial difficulties and dengue deaths, officials said on Monday. The governor's decision came less than 24 hours ahead of his scheduled departure. "(The) governor had initially...

KOLKATA: Six people who were diagnosed with dengue died in West Bengalon Friday, taking this year's toll in the state to over 30, officials said. Two patients died at a private hospital in Kolkata while undergoing treatment. One of them was a resident of Salt Lake and the other was from Bagha Jatin, they said. Two persons died in Ghatal in Pachim Medinipur, and two persons died in nearby Kharagpur, they...

THANE: A man was held on Thursday from North Dinajpur area of West Bengal for allegedly murdering a woman in Bhiwandi in Maharashtra's Thane district, a police official said. The decomposed body of the 36-year-old woman, identified as Madhu Prajapati, was found in Ganesh Nagar and a murder case was filed due to the presence of multiple wounds, Senior Inspector Rajendra Pawar of Kongaon police station...

KOLKATA: The CBI on Sunday registered an FIR in an alleged fraud at the “cooperative body” at Alipurduar in West Bengal following an order from the Calcutta high court in August this year. The court had transferred the case from CID to the CBI and ED after it expressed unhappiness over the progress of the case.In the petition filed with the court, the petitioners alleged that several members of the...

BHUBANESWAR: People have been facing difficulties during the last three days for cancellation of several long-distance trains due to 'rail roko' staged by members of the Adivasi Kurmi Samaj in West Bengal demanding scheduled tribe (ST) status.The protestors have staged rail roko at Khemasuli station in the Kharagpur-Tata railway section of Kharagpur division and at Kustaur station in Adra-Chandil...

KOLKATA: Metro Railway general manager P Uday Kumar Reddy inspected Sealdah to Salt Lake Sector V stretch of the East-West Metro Corridor (Green Line) on Friday and asked the staff to maintain the highest standard of cleanliness. Reddy reached Sealdah station on Friday morning and started the inspection from there. At Sealdah, he inspected entry-exit points, platforms, crew lobby, ticket vending...