jangalmahal

Chandrakona, a predominantly rural, SC-reserved constituency in Paschim Medinipur, faces challenges like flood management, agrarian debt, and underdevelopment. The seat, comfortably held by the AITC, has seen a shift from CPI(M) dominance to a bipolar AITC-BJP rivalry, with recent elections highlighting polarized contests and steady AITC consolidation.

Ghatal, a flood-prone agrarian SC-reserved constituency in Paschim Medinipur, faces challenges of crop devastation, rural unemployment, and infrastructure deficits. This ultra-marginal seat, marked by a razor-thin BJP victory in 2021, is a bellwether for rural penetration and gauges the BJP's challenge to the ruling TMC.

Prime Minister Modi declared "women's welfare is Modi's guarantee," accusing Congress and Trinamool of obstructing women's reservation law amendments. He highlighted BJP's promises for women, including financial aid, free healthcare, and vaccination, while criticizing Trinamool's alleged "anti-woman" and "anti-tribal" stance and religious reservation agenda.

The West Bengal Primary Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) 2022 interview process has been postponed due to ongoing elections. Originally scheduled to begin in April, the interviews for various districts have been rescheduled following discussions with the Election Commission. Candidates, facing delays since 2023, await new dates, expressing frustration over the uncertainty.

Four more men were gunned down in jangalmahal over the past 24 hours, taking the death toll since the security forces moved into the region in June to 52.

Following heightened tension in Andhra Pradesh over fresh demonstrations for Telengana, the home ministry on Wednesday decided to withdraw five companies of CRPF from jangalmahal and deploy them in the disturbed southern region instead.

jangalmahal CPM offices to open soon: Md Salim Midnapore: After Dharampur CPM has set its sights on reclaiming Lalgarh from the Maoists...

Two suspected Maoists, wanted for several murders, were arrested from jangalmahal even as the Maoist-backed PCPA enforced a 24-hour bandh in protest against the arrest of its secretary Manoj Mahato.

The new state government led by Mamata Banerjee is planning a special package for people of jangalmahal. A high-level meeting at Writers' Buildings on Friday discussed a development roadmap for the region affected by Maoist violence.

BJP’s Bengal inroads in 2019 Lok Sabha polls were partly scripted from jangalmahal’s 40 assembly segments.

Senior state police officers including state DGP Naparajit Mukherjee held a security review meeting with their RPF counterparts to resume night train services in jangalmahal, which was suspended after Jnaneswari carnage in May 2010.

Prodded by chief minister Mamata Banerjee, the state paschimanchal unnayan affairs department is preparing an annual action plan for the financial year of 2014-15 for developing the three jangalmahal districts with special emphasis on developing rural infrastructure, soil and water conversation, drinking water, promotion of rural tourism and full augmentation of irrigation potentials in the area.

The state government on Wednesday came out with a new public distribution system for the people of jangalmahal.

With the state government planning a slew of projects for jangalmahal, education in the area is all set to get a boost.

A day before chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s jangalmahal visit, Maoist-backed outfit People's Committee against Police Atrocities threatened on Sunday to launch fresh agitation if the state did not stop "arbitrary arrest" of PCPA leaders.

Though the boys lost by two goals and the eves by three, it was ultimately the spirit of the game that triumphed in this trouble-torn part of the state.