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@ThisKolkataBhai Great initiative!

Illegal occupations have reportedly been cleared from Rabindra Sarobar Stadium in Lake Gardens. The stadium is expected to be renovated, with plans for an Olympic-standard athletics track.

@WestBengalDiary @toisports @htTweets @MyAnandaBazar @TheStatesmanLtd @Ei_Samay @News18Bengali @india_eye_now @Tv9_Bangla @BanglaRepublic @DDBanglaTV Much needed!!

🚨 HISTORIC BOOST FOR BENGAL ATHLETES! 🇮🇳 The West Bengal Govt drops a massive sports policy overhaul with astronomical cash reward hikes for international medalists! 💰🏃‍♂️ 🏅 Olympics: Gold ₹8 Cr | Silver ₹6 Cr | Bronze ₹4 Cr 🌏 Asian Games: Gold ₹5 Cr | Silver ₹4 Cr | Bronze ₹2 Cr 🏆 World C'ships: Gold ₹2 Cr | Silver ₹1.5 Cr | Bronze ₹1 Cr 🤝 CWG: Gold ₹1.5 Cr | Silver ₹75L | Bronze ₹50L Massive step up from the previous ₹25L Olympic Gold prize! Job incentives up to DSP rank are included. 📈 #WestBengal #Olympics #SportsNews

@rkrish67 @monidipadey @punarutthana It's just that we've always been silent worshippers, not exhibitory. Neither did national media ever take any interest in showing what common Bengalis actually do and/or follow in reality. Every Bengali home you go, the following pics will definitely be there. PC : Pinterest

@rkrish67 @monidipadey @punarutthana We Bengalis never ignored them. We've grown up listening to stories of them. Serials, movies showcase their lives. Reading books n visits to their places are quite common too. They're very much alive, amongst us, in our conversations, art, pooja altar, conduct and lifestyles.

West Bengal CM Suvendhu Adhikari doing pronaam to RKM sanyasis is an extremely important message in the changing scenario of WB’s political history. For those who aren’t aware of the political discourse of WB, one needs to look back at the Communist era to realise why this image is so important. The Communists considered Ramakrishnadeva as an illiterate epileptic, while swami Vivekananda was seen as a Hindu fanatic. So the Communists wanted to take over the RKM schools and indoctrinate their young students with Marxism, and teach them to hate Ramakrishnadeva and his teachings. It is said that Pramode Dasgupta had even threatened the Ramakrishna Math and Mission with demolition of the Belur Math and replacing it with a coffee house. To achieve the destruction of RKM, the Jyoti Basu led Communist Government decided to infiltrate and destroy autonomy of all Ramakrishna Mission run schools, colleges, and Universities in West Bengal, by placing their CPI(M) goons within the governing boards. To stop this, RKM went to the Court. Their lawyers advised them that the only way to stop the CPI(M) government from destroying RKM was to declare itself as a minority (non-Hindu) institution. This is because the Indian Constitution gives protection only to the minority institutions from political interferences. This way RKM bought itself 20 years through the litigation, and were saved from destruction. When the case was finally lost, CPIM was on its way out. Ramakrishna Math and Mission never dissociated itself from Hinduism. They took the only available legal way to save their organization from Communist takeover : they declared themselves as a non-Hindu organization. That way they gained time and survived. People who have not lived through the Left reign of terror in West Bengal during the Jyoti Basu period, will not be able to comprehend the extreme fear, and difficulties faced by the Hindu organisations at that time. TMC as a political body continued with the Communist type rule of terror, which was and is still visible, thanks to social media presence. So that pronaam in a public space signals the end of reign of terror, and free functioning of Hindu institutions 🙏

@monidipadey @punarutthana The best thing about this pic is while CM is doing pronam, the sanyasis are reciprocating by nomoshkar instead of the aashirvaad gesture many self-proclaimed do. Highly knowledgeable yet so humble. 🙏

@InfraAddaofWB Absolutely!!

🌊 SHOULD WEST BENGAL HAVE A STRICT “PUKUR CONSERVATION & RESTORATION POLICY”? BECAUSE BENGAL’S PUKURS ARE NOT JUST WATERBODIES THEY ARE PART OF ITS CULTURE, MEMORY & URBAN ECOLOGY Almost every locality in Bengal once had: 📍a pukur 📍a neighbourhood pond 📍community gathering spaces 📍childhood memories attached to them But over the years, many have reportedly: • been encroached upon • filled with garbage • polluted • illegally reclaimed • or converted into construction land And beyond culture, these ponds actually matter for: 🌧️ rainwater absorption 💧 groundwater recharge 🌡️ urban cooling 🐟 local biodiversity 🏙️ flood mitigation Should there now be: • mandatory geo-tagging of ponds? • strict anti-encroachment protection? • restoration drives? • community maintenance systems? • fines for illegal filling of waterbodies? Feels like one of the most underrated urban & environmental discussions Bengal needs right now

আজ আমি মুখ্যমন্ত্রী হিসেবে একটি মহতী ও সদর্থক পদক্ষেপ গ্রহণ করতে পেরে নিজেকে সৌভাগ্যবান মনে করছি। গত ৯ই অগস্ট ২০২৪ সালে আর.জি.কর মেডিক্যাল কলেজ ও হাসপাতালে বোন অভয়ার নৃশংস খুন ও ধর্ষণের ঘটনায় তৎকালীন আর.জি. কর-এর সুপার; কুখ্যাত সন্দীপ ঘোষের বিরুদ্ধে আইনি পদ্ধতি অনুযায়ী ইডি কে উক্ত ব্যক্তির বিরুদ্ধে আইনানুগ ব্যবস্থা গ্রহণ করে দোষী সাব্যস্ত করার অনুমতি প্রদান করা হলো (Sanction of Prosecution has been accorded)। বিগত তৃণমূল কংগ্রেস সরকার জোরপূর্বক ও অনৈতিকভাবে এই মামলার তদন্ত প্রক্রিয়া দীর্ঘদিন আটকে রেখেছিল। কিন্তু আমরা বিশ্বাস করি, আইনের ঊর্ধ্বে কেউ নয়। সত্যকে চাপা দিয়ে রাখা যায় না। আমি চাই, বোন অভয়ার প্রকৃত দোষীরা দ্রুত চিহ্নিত হোক, কঠোরতম শাস্তি পাক এবং বাংলার মানুষ ন্যায়বিচার প্রত্যক্ষ করুক। বোন অভয়ার আত্মার চিরশান্তি কামনা করি।

@_CTUA_ @bhaumikgowande @BhavreenMK @MickyGupta84 @PMOIndia @InfraAddaofWB @koustavcp @SuvenduWB @paulagnimitra1 @swapan55 @lokbhavan_wb Please take steps towards cleanliness around the Howrah bridge and the station. It's quite embarrassing when friends from outside come to visit, especially to see the much talked about Howrah Bridge and send photos, all we see is filth strewn all over.

Howrah once boasted a proper multimodal hub, even before it became a globally accepted model. It served trams, buses, suburban rail, and long-distance trains all at the same location. Today, we have a hawker-infested bus stand with 50-year-old infrastructure and a minimal bus service. @SuvenduWB @_pallavighosh @rahulkanwal @paulagnimitra1 @NewsArenaIndia @Atmojoarjalojo If possible please revive the trams buses and ferry and make the zone more walkable pedestrian friendly!

1987. A room in New Delhi is thick with the smell of old files & cold tea. The United States has just delivered a stinging slap to the face of the Indian Republic. They have officially refused to sell India the 'Cray X-MP' Supercomputer, the most powerful machine on Earth, claiming that India would use it for nuclear weapons. The American officials mockingly suggest that India does not even have the electricity to keep such a machine running. In the middle of this national humiliation, a young, soft-spoken engineer named Vijay Bhatkar is asked by then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi: "Can we build our own?" Bhatkar does not hesitate. He looks at the No of the West & says: "We will not just build it; we will build it faster than you can ship it." The Americans did not just stop at refusing the sale; they actively lobbied other nations to ensure India remained digitally blind. They believed that w/o their Logic Gates, India would remain a 3rd world backwater. Bhatkar realized he could not replicate the Single-Processor behemoth of the Cray. Instead, he turned to Parallel Processing. He decided to stitch together 1000s of low-cost, off-the-shelf microprocessors. It was like building a giant's brain out of the neurons of ants. In 1991, while the West was still celebrating its monopoly, Bhatkar unveiled the PARAM 8000. It was not just a computer; it was a Gigaflop monster. To prove the PARAM was real, Bhatkar ran a standard global benchmark test. The results were sent to an international conference in Zurich. The PARAM 8000 was ranked as the 2nd most powerful supercomputer in the world, behind only the American machines. But there was a twist: the PARAM cost a fraction of the Cray, performed better in tropical heat, & was built in just 3 years. When the PARAM 8000 was 1st turned on, the team did not have a high-tech cooling system like the Americans. They used industrial-grade desert coolers & adjusted the airflow manually. It was the ultimate Jugaad that defeated the most sophisticated tech embargo in history. A major US newspaper ran a story with the headline: "Denied supercomputer, Angry India does it!" The ghost of the Native Engineer had officially entered the silicon temple. Vijay Bhatkar’s history is the story of how India became the IT Capital of the world. Bhatkar founded the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). He did not just build a machine; he built an ecosystem. Every software engineer in India today stands on the shoulders of the man who proved we did not need the West's permission to compute. Bhatkar was the 1 who realized that if computers only spoke English, 90% of India would be left behind. He led the development of GIST (Graphics & Intelligence Based Script Technology), allowing computers to work in Indian languages. He gave the Machine a local tongue. Today, Bhatkar is a Padma Bhushan awardee, but he lives a life of deep spirituality & simplicity. He vanished from the corporate headlines to become a philosopher of the digital age. The West thought they could freeze India’s future by withholding a single machine. They forgot that the Indian mind does not need a 'Cray' to think; it only needs a 'No' to ignite. Forget building a supercomputer; Bhatkar built a mirror, & for the 1st time, the West had to look into it & see that the primitive colony had become the master of the code.

@pc07111991 @SuvenduWB @SuvenduWB বাংলার 1) সব স্কুলে (রাজ্যবোর্ড, CBSE, ICSE ) বাংলা বিষয় বাধ্যতামূলক চাই 2) সরকারি চাকরির ও WBCS পরীক্ষায় বাংলা পেপার বাধ্যতামূলক চাই বুড়োবাজার, রাজাবাজার, শিয়ালদহ, ধর্মতলা, হাওড়ায় বিহার/উত্তরপ্রদেশ থেকে আসা অবৈধ হকারদের উৎখাত চাই।

Watch: Minister Agnimitra Paul says, "My mother's and daughter's of West Bengal you can move out anytime, can wear anything and can eat anything anytime. No one will say anything about what to wear, what to eat and when to go out or not. We will not say that why women have gone out after 8... Till now there was not a women helpline number, we had said it multiple times, so at the earliest 181 women helpline number, we are going to start..." (Source: Agnimitra Paul's Office)

@Bharatatmas @bong_politics @NTA_Exams @dpradhanbjp Offline or online, scams are omnipresent under NTA.

@bong_politics @NTA_Exams @dpradhanbjp Honestly why even conduct offline. Just do it offline. Want more security add a Blockchain to keep a track where all this paper is going. Environment ke liye bhi better rahega. Pata nahi who are the advisors

B**k @NTA_Exams plz dismantle your team And @dpradhanbjp sir if you can't control, plz resign & don't play with future of medical aspirants 😡😠

@bong_politics @NTA_Exams @dpradhanbjp NTA is the most corrupt body ever. It has been single-handedly spoiling the lives of lakhs of youngsters for quite sometime. You take up any exam that it conducts, and you'll find blatant misconduct. You won't even have to dig deep.

@rajatshrmaa9 @sougat18 Yes, I agree. Even the daily consumption varieties taste different in Kolkata. But you go to the villages, and you'll still find the authentic ones, though the hyv ones are fast making inroads to villages too.

@Manashiwrites @sougat18 Staying in kolkata we don't get one, what we get is I consider as HYV types

One of the best rice varieties. If it’s genuinely authentic, you would forget basmati for sure. It’s that good.

@rajatshrmaa9 @sougat18 Still very much available in graam bangla. Cultivated in our lands back in village.

@sougat18 @sougat18 you don't get authentic anymore, some 20 years back when my mom used to make it the whole house was fragmented by its essence

এই তো চাই।

@WarLord709 Best thing to do is report the tweets and move on.

All Bengali RW accounts stop giving engagement to the castiest accounts. Some of them are trying hard to divide hindus in Bengal. #bjp #tmc

Tagore’s quote is in the context of European nationalism that led to expansion and ultimately world war 2. Tagore was intensely patriotic himself when it came to India (how india was defined before Independence), he was against aggressive, expansionist nationalism. But no please form a judgement based on an image with text, instead of “reading” him.

PROPAGANDA AGAINST TRAMS - They are not suitable for a densely populated city like Kolkata. It really feels sad to see that a huge fraction of "educated class" believe this dumb statement. Regulate the cars, run trams frequently, and one can see a drastic reduction in traffic.

To the next Transport Minister of West Bengal please revive and modernise Kolkata Trams not remove them Dedicated lanes safer stops modern low floor trams and integration with metro and buses can make Kolkata a model for sustainable mobility Resting @PMOIndia to take a ride