Durgapur, June 24: Farmers in a Durgapur village who had not accepted compensation for land acquired in 1964 and had apparently been promised by Trinamul before the Assembly elections last year tha
DURGAPUR, 6 JUNE: Animals trapped inside a closed factory here must be rescued, former minister and animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi has told the Burdwan district administration.
DURGAPUR/MALDA : Rain, accompanied by a thunderstorm, brought much-needed relief to the parched district of Burdwan but not before claiming 10 lives in lightning and injuring 12 others this evenin
SANKTORIA, 19 APRIL: Uncertainty over the fate of the proposed 2000-MW Thermal Power Station in Katwa of Burdwan continues. This time due to a stipulation by the coal ministry.
The Mamata Banerjee government on Wednesday gave its nod for a proposal to hand over a State-sector power project that was being implemented at Katwa in Bardhaman district to the erstwhile National Thermal Power Corporation, now simply NTPC.
Burnpur:At least 15 people, including seven policemen, were injured when villagers fought a pitched battle with police for more than two hours over land acquisition for an IISCO plant at Purusottam
While Governor M K Narayanan has also put the weight of his office behind the growing concern over farmer suicides in West Bengal, the Mamata Banerjee government seems determined to play these down
DURGAPUR, 2 JAN: The Burdwan District Vigilance Monitoring Committee, in its first meeting today, found out that the district's performance in the MGNREGA has gone down from the previous year.
Burdwan district, with its advantageous position in transportation network and good resource endowments, spontaneously responded to the commercialisation of agriculture. Rice received considerable commercial importance in the second half of the nineteenth century. It found access to new markets within and outside Bengal and consequently rice trade flourished. Rice trade was carried on regularly in an organised way in Burdwan and expanded considerably from the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
KOLKATA, 26 DEC: The chief minister, Miss Mamata Banerjee, will write to the Prime Minister requesting him to release the support price for procuring rice from the farmers of Bengal.
