Why the BJP failed to consolidate Hindu votes in West Bengal
Sun, May 09 2021 06:05:23 PM
By Saibal Gupta
Kolkata, May 9 (IANS): Though the BJP has increased its tally in the West Bengal Assembly from three in 2016 to 77 in 2021 - a substantial increase of 74 seats, but down from 121, as indicated by the 2019 Lok Sabha election results. The BJP s success in the last Lok Sabha elections was a result of extreme polarisation of Hindu votes under Narendra Modi-Amit Shah banner but in the 2021 Assembly polls, the saffron camp failed to retain the level of Hindu support it had secured then, thus ending up faring way below its own expectations and its performance in the last general election.
Anticipating the increasing demand of oxygen in the coming day due to steep rise of Covid in the state, the state health department has asked all the government hospitals to demarcate land for developing oxygen plant within the hospital .
Bengal polls: EC deploys huge forces in bordering districts to avoid intrusion
Sat, Apr 24 2021 09:53:52 PM
By Saibal Gupta
Kolkata, Apr 24 (IANS): The Election Commission has decided to deploy 653 companies of central forces for the penultimate seventh phase of Assembly elections in West Bengal scheduled for April 26, in which 34 constituencies across five districts will go to the polls.
The deployment plan laid down by the Commission shows that the mobilisation of forces in the three bordering districts is far more than in the other two districts, indicating that the poll panel is trying to plug infiltration attempts during the elections.
Of the five districts going to the polls in the seventh phase on Monday, three districts Malda, Murshidabad and South Dinajpur share borders with Bangladesh.
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Martian ‘blueberries’ find a parallel on Earth
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Similar haematite concretions have been found in Kutch, Gujarat
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Geochemistry: Investigations of the haematite concretions in the Jhuran formation (left) revealed the resemblance to the ones on Mars (right).
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Similar haematite concretions have been found in Kutch, Gujarat
In 2004, NASA’s Mars exploration rover ‘Opportunity’ found several small spheres on the planet, informally named Martian blueberries. Opportunity’s mini spectrometers studied the mineralogy and noted they were made of iron oxide compounds called haematites. This caused excitement, as the presence of haematites suggests that there was water present on Mars.