Last Updated:February 13, 2025, 15:35 IST Data from the finance department shows that allocation to the department has increased 11.87 times in the state from 2011 to 2025, giving ammunition to the BJP West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during a press conference after the presentation of the state Budget 2025-26 at the state Assembly…
Voters wait to cast their vote during the bypoll to Dhupguri assembly seat, in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district on September 5. (Image: PTI) The BJP put up a brave face after it lost by over 4,000 votes even as party leader Amit Malviya claimed that West Bengal will deliver a crushing blow to the TMC…
Last Updated: September 06, 2023, 22:43 IST File photo of Amit Malviya, in-charge of BJP’s IT department. (Image: X (Twitter)) On September 2, DMK leader and state minister Udhayanidhi, who also holds the sports portfolio alleged that Sanatan Dharma is against social justice and equality and it should hence be “eradicated” An FIR has been…
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced a raise in stipend for Imams, muezzins and purohits at the event in Kolkata on Monday. (PTI) Experts said the stipend to Imams was higher as Waqf Board money is added to the state’s dole, increasing the total amount. Also, Imams cannot do any other work apart from…
New Delhi: Congress leader Sachin Pilot on Tuesday hit out at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) IT department head Amit Malviya for claiming that his father Rajesh Pilot dropped bombs as an air force pilot in Mizoram in March 1966, saying the facts and dates are wrong as he was commissioned into the force in October…
On Monday, the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc of opposition was supposed to get 105 votes in the Rajya Sabha during the voting on the contentious Delhi Services Bill, for which even a visibly frail 90-year-old former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh came in a wheelchair. However, when the results were out, it…