It is becoming increasingly evident that the Left Front government is reconciled to its fate. One could hear a painful and plaintive farewell note in the statement that commerce and industry minister Nirupam Sen made on the floor of the Assembly on Wednesday. “Today we are in power but tomorrow someone else may be in power. It is natural in parliamentary democracy that one political party will come to power and another will exit,” he said.

If you are contemplating to raise a pet dog, then be sure of the licence rules laid down by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC). Come August and the KMC would be reviving the licence system for raising pet dogs at home. “Licence for keeping pets had been one of the oldest rules of KMC. But during the tenure of the Left Front civic

The Trinamul Congress civic board has promised to complete the remaining projects under the Kolkata Environment Improvement Project (KEIP) within 2012.
Mayor Sovan Chatterjee on Wednesday claimed that after meeting with the officials of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the prime lending agency of the Kolkata M

Congress president Sonia Gandhi will come to the city on a two-day visit in between September 22 and 26 to take part in a conference on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the formation of the Congress party. The Congress leaders of eastern Indian states will take part in this conference. AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi will also visit West Bengal soon.

The students interested in taking up sports as their career would be gifted with new sports schools where they can take up sports and also study simultaneously. The state government plans to open four new sports school in the state.

The Trinamul Congress legislature party on Wednesday moved a motion in the House seeking discussion on the lawlessness and volatile situation in the state. Speaker Hashim Abdul Halim admitted the motion and will fix a date and time for a discussion on it on the floor of the Assembly.

The taxis will stay off the road from Wednesday midnight as the Taxi Bachao Committee, a platform of the taxi unions in the city, has called a token strike following the failure of its talks with state transport minister Ranjit Kundu on fare hike. The Progressive Taximen’s Union, backed by the Trinamul Congress and a part of the Taxi Bachao Committee also, has however opposed the strike and will not participate in it.

It is becoming increasingly evident that the Left Front government is reconciled to its fate. One could hear a painful and plaintive farewell note in the statement that commerce and industry minister Nirupam Sen made on the floor of the Assembly on Wednesday.

Two students from West Bengal have won the silver and bronze medal respectively for India in the International Mathematics Olympiad 2010 finals held in Kazakhstan. Akashneel Datta from Barrackpore and Satyaki Mukherjee from Durgapur won among the six participants from India.

In an apparent bid to defy Trinamul Congress, the Congress has decided to organise a public rally at Khejuri in East Midnapore later this July even as the police arrested four Trinamul Congress supporters who had allegedly prevented Youth Congress general secretary Usha Naidu from holding a meeting at Khejuri on Monday.