KOLKATA: Truckers in West Bengal called for a 72-hour strike from Wednesday over a host of demands that includes a ban on overloading, their association said. The strike called by the Federation of West Bengal Truck Operators Association could disrupt the supply chain of essential commodities ahead of the festive season. "The strike will begin from 6 am on Wednesday," …
Trains under the jurisdiction of South Eastern Railway and East Coast Railway will ply on their scheduled routes in parts of West Bengal, Jharkhand and Odisha as an indefinite rail blockade called by Kurmi organisations from September 20 has been withdrawn, officials said. We will take a collective decision on the next course of action on September 30 in Purulia,” …
Our past can inform our choices in the future. Born four years after India’s First War of Independence in 1857, Rabindranath Tagore passed away just six years before India became free. Immediately after Das’s death in June 1925, Bose wrote to his elder brother Sarat from the Mandalay prison that while on one hand Narayan played a key role in …
