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Centre flags ICMT’s concerns over West Bengal’s handling of COVID crisis
The Union Home Ministry has written to the West Bengal government highlighting the concerns raised by the two Inter-Ministerial Central Teams (IMCT) that were deployed to look into allegations of...
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North Bengal’s business groups offer scope for industries moving out of China
Companies that are shifting facilities from China because of the Covid-19 outbreak should be offered base in north Bengal districts, feel industry and commerce bodies from the region.The local business...
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Centre says Bengal not testing enough, mismanaging Covid-19 cases
As a row between West Bengal and the Centre over the state’s efforts to control the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) escalates, officials of the Union government said on Friday that the region was...
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Army, Air Force Rescue Helicopter Crew Stuck In Inclement Weather In Sikkim
A joint team of Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Army on Friday rescued six crew members of an Mi-17 military helicopter from a snow-capped mountain at an altitude of 15,500 feet in North Sikkim,...
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Sikkim's plan to ban tourism till October threatens livelihood of thousands
Sikkim's plan to ban tourism till October threatens livelihood of thousands; industry demands tax breaks, remissions on loans to wade through COVID-19 pandemicEven as COVID-19 pandemic ravages across...
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Darjeeling Tea seeks export relief
The Darjeeling Tea Association, the largest organisation of planters in the region, is apprehending exports to dip by 50 per cent because of the Covid-19 pandemic and has appealed to the Centre for an...
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Darjeeling DM wants 100% attendance
The Darjeeling district magistrate has directed all officers working in his office to report for duty from Monday.Many government offices are not functioning at full strength. Ponnambalam S., the...
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Random tests in Siliguri containment zones
The health department will carry out random sample tests, even of persons without symptoms, in containment zones in Wards 40, 41, 42 and 43 under the Siliguri Municipal Corporation. The health...
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Trains To Bring Home Migrants New Flashpoint Between BJP And Trinamool
New Delhi: The politics between the centre and West Bengal amid the pandemic is heating up. For the last one month, several letter missiles had been shot off from Delhi to Kolkata from a range of...
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Free work to help tea firms hit by lockdown
Labourers in over 20 tea gardens in the Dooars worked free on Sunday, a holiday, to express their solidarity with companies which were in financial crisis because of the Covid-19-induced lockdown.“In...
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Bengal - 1,337 active cases, 14 more die from Covid-19
The Mamata Banerjee government on Sunday reported 153 new Covid-19 cases, 14 deaths directly from the pathogen and discharge of 45 patients following cure in the past 24 hours.The total number of...
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Bengal sends teams to plug gaps in containment zones of three districts
Hooghly and South 24-Parganas, two districts in south Bengal which have registered a sharp spike in Covid-19 cases over the past one week, are fast turning out to be major concerns for the West Bengal...
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Reports of suspected COVID-19 cases force closure of Bengal shops after...
view of Howrah Station during the nationwide lockdownKOLKATA. PTI: Many shops selling non-essential commodities in orange and green zones of West Bengal were forced to close down during the past one...
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Despite deescalated, Indian and Chinese soldiers stay put in Ladakh and Sikkim
NEW DELHI: Troops of the Chinese Army and the Indian Army have not left the area of clashes although the things have ‘de-escalated’.A senior officer confirmed that the troops from both sides are in the...
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Four die in Siliguri; reports Covid negative
Four persons undergoing treatment for suspected Covid19 symptoms have died in Siliguri in the past 24 hours.The deaths occurred at the Desun Hospital, which the government has taken over to treat...
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Work on tour projects to resume soon
Bengal tourism minister Gautam Deb said on Monday that his department would soon resume work on several projects which had been stalled because of the lockdown.He said the tourism department would soon...
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Next lockdown phase won’t be like earlier ones, says PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that ‘Lockdown 4.0’, starting 18 May, will be “totally different" from the previous phases, and the contours will be decided on the basis of suggestions...
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Hill doctors frown on home quarantine
People returning home from other states were sent to “home quarantine” on Tuesday, prompting doctors to point out that it was not the “best procedure” to follow, after which the Darjeeling district...
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70 arrive in north Bengal from Delhi
A round 70 people returned to north Bengal on Wednesday when the first train during the lockdown reached the New Jalpaiguri station from New Delhi.Another 120 people, who are from Assam and were...
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COVID-19: Samples tested at STNM Hospital, Sikkim, found negative
Gangtok: Sikkim has started testing people who are returning from outside. Tests were conducted on the first batch of people who entered the state from Siliguri in West Bengal, which is a red zone. The...
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