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Congratulations to the Tigress of India @MamataOfficial – it’s been a pleasure to have invested in Bengal during your tenure and I commit to doing more in Bengal through @TheJSWGroup – looking forward to growing our presence in Bengal under your leadership @JSWCement, tweeted Parth Jindal, managing director, JSW Cement. The endorsement and commitment came on the eve of Mamata Banerjee taking oath as West Bengal chief minister. Banerjee was sworn in on Wednesday. JSW Cement has a 2.4 million tonne cement plant at Salboni in West Medinipur district, which will increase to 3.6 million tonnes by August-end. By 2025, the company has a plan to take its total capacity to 25 million tonnes with a special focus on the eastern region including Odisha.
The Deep Dive: TMC Did Exceedingly Well On Tougher Seats
The Deep Dive: TMC Did Exceedingly Well On Tougher Seats
TMC Chief Mamata Banerjee led her party to one of its biggest political victories in three decades by single-handedly stopping the BJP juggernaut in West Bengal, paving the way for her third consecutive term as chief minister.
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A supporter of Mamata Banerjee, who won a third term as chief minister of West Bengal, celebrates in Kolkata (Picture Credits: Reuters)
The last three phases of assembly elections in West Bengal were considered tough for Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC).
Bangla nijer meyekay chai in February, it could not have been more prophetic.
Mamata Banerjee may have lost her own electoral battle in Nandigram constituency, but she won the war in Bengal for her party Trinamool Congress, single-handedly a remarkable landslide victory to stop the mighty electoral machine of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. The sweep and extent of TMC s win, which matched its performance in the previous assembly poll five years ago, was unexpected even to Mamata, who said as much in her first press conference post-victory. Although Mamata lost the poll in Nandigram to her former protege Suvendu Adhikari, it will not prevent her from returning to the Chief Minister s chair immediately. All she has to do is face fresh by-elections within six months of becoming the CM.
A second wave of the virus and another exodus
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May 03, 2021 01:07 IST
Several migrant labourers are packing their bags home due to job loss, uncertain future, and fear of getting infected
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Migrant workers waiting for transport to return to their hometown in Bihar following the lockdown, in Delhi. | Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA
Several migrant labourers are packing their bags home due to job loss, uncertain future, and fear of getting infected
Amid the sustained surge in COVID-19 cases, migrant workers in the city, who had come back to the Capital a few months ago, are forced to return to their villages, yet again due to the pandemic-induced lockdown.