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The TMC supremo also promised that in the next five years, she will uplift an additional 35 lakh people from extreme poverty.

In 2017, the state had approved the sale of its entire stake of 47 per cent in Metro Dairy to the Jalan Group-owned Keventer, at a consideration of Rs 84.5 crore.

Located in south Kolkata, Bhabanipur was a Congress bastion during Mamata Banerjee's time in the Congress and then became a TMC citadel.

The highest costing tea that is priced at Rs 1,000 is the Bo-Lei tea that costs Rs 3 lakh per kilogram. Bo-Lei, also known as Pu-Erh tea or Puer, Po Lei, Bolay tea, and Dark Tea is a tea made in China.

While a similar rally was held in 2019, ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, it did not ultimately amount to votes.

Passengers should undergo RT-PCR tests within 72 hours of the flight departure.

A rapid vaccination programme is needed immediately for the interests of health and well-being of all concerned, Banerjee said in a letter to Modi.

I-League 2020-21: Mason Robertson scored a brace as Real Kashmir FC came from a goal down to beat Aizawl FC 3-1.

Lawmakers Mimi Chakraborty and Pratima Mondal and MLAs Jeevan Mukherjee, Debashree Roy and Manturam Pakhira were absent from the meeting on Thursday, sources said.

The former union minister also termed the "insider outsider" debate started by Banerjee "antithetical" to Bengal's liberal ethos.

The accused, a native of Bihar’s Begusarai who worked at a shop in the area, has confessed to the crime along with a security guard who was arrested on Friday.

Banerjee had recently said an agro-industrial park will be set up at Singur in Hooghly district to create employment opportunities in the agrarian area.

The girl, who was found lying in a pool of blood on the staircase that led to the terrace of the multi-storey building, was "first sexually abused and then killed", a senior police officer said.

Kolkata Police Commissioner Anuj Sharma gave the instructions during a meeting with senior police officers at Alipore Bodyguard Lines in Kolkata.

Immediately after unfurling the national flag at the party's Rampurhat office, Ghosh realised that the Tricolour was upside down with green on top and rectified it by bringing it down and hoisting it properly.

Abbas Siddiqui, an influential cleric of Furfura Sharif Dargah in Bengal's Hooghly district, floated the Indian Secular Front (ISF). He said the new outfit might contest state elections from all 294 Assembly seats.