West Bengal

Going back to November 2021, Ajoy Edwards, the proprietor of Darjeeling's famed restaurant Glenary's and a well-known philanthropist, dubbed his political party Hamro Party, promising to stay independent of state and national parties in power.

In what is considered Bengal’s ‘mini-Assembly polls’ to elect 2,171 councillors across 108 municipalities, over 95 lakh voters in 20 districts exercised their franchise on Sunday.

The meeting is ostensibly intended to address simmering tensions within the party over Abhishek Banerjee's push to promote a 'One Man, One Post' policy, which is opposed by some of the party's older guards.

Prorogation is discontinuing a session of the Parliament or a legislative assembly without dissolving it. There are two provisions in the Constitution that deal with a Governor’s power to summon, prorogue and dissolve an Assembly.

UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath warned voters that if they "make a mistake" in the assembly elections, the state will become like Kashmir, Kerala, or Bengal.

The petition filed by Ramaprashad Sarkar will be heard on February 11.

While schools in West Bengal will resume classes eight through 12 on Thursday, the state government has issued a notice for open-air learning sessions from pre-primary to class seven in every area beginning February 7 due to the pandemic scenario.

The development comes a day after Dhankar stated that the state had become a 'gas chamber for democracy'.

The Communist Party of India-Marxist took to its Twitter account to inform that the party policy has been consistent in declining such awards from the State.

Following a surge in Covid-19 cases across the country, the government has decided to significantly curtail the audience at Rajpath to around 8,000 for the 73rd Republic Day parade celebrations on January 26 in New Delhi.