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- Kolkata
‘Buy biryani from Hindu shops’ posters spark row in Bengal
Siliguri: A poster campaign by the Hindu Jagaran Manch urging people to buy biryani and puja articles from shops owned by Hindus triggered a controversy here, the largest town in the northern…
- Kolkata
AITC team probes attacks on Christians in Bengal after BJP win
Kolkata: A fact-finding team of the opposition Mamata AITC on Sunday, October 11, alleged that it found during visits to various parts of West Bengal that mobs vandalised churches, denied Christians burial…
- Hyderabad
DRI seizes gold worth Rs 8.98 crore en route to Hyderabad
Hyderabad: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized 5.83 kg of foreign-origin gold, valued at Rs. 8.98 crore, from a specially fabricated cavity in a car travelling from Kolkata to Hyderabad. Acting…
- India
BJP cut water supply to Muslim colony: TMC MP writes to UN
New Delhi: Concerned over the protracted disruption in water supply in Kolkata’s Jyotinagar Colony, Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Samirul Islam has written to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner…
- Lifestyle
One festival, many faces: How India celebrates Navratri
Navratri may be celebrated for nine nights, but there is no single way to celebrate it. Across India, the festival changes its colours, music, food and traditions while keeping devotion to the…
- Kolkata
Kolkata: SRFTI students seek security post-Hindutva protest
Kolkata: Police maintained a vigil at the gate of Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI), Kolkata, on Monday, October 5, as students continued their academic boycott, demanding security following a protest…
- Hate Crime
Slapped, punched, called jihadi: 3 Kolkata students attacked
Kolkata: Three students from Aliah University were allegedly targeted with communal slurs and assaulted while returning home on September 24 in Kolkata, West Bengal. The incident occurred when Md Ashique Billah, Moyajjem…
- India
Suvendu blames Mamata for 27 lakh voter deletions in Bengal
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday, September 27, blamed former CM Mamata Banerjee for the deletion of 27 lakh names from the state’s electoral rolls during the Special Intensive…
- Opinions
Jyotinagar Colony: No water for 8 weeks, eviction threat looms
Nearly 5,000 residents of Cossipore, Kolkata, have been deprived of tap water since July 29, while the eviction case is pending in the Calcutta High Court. The colony’s five public taps, which…
- India
Mamata backs Congress in Nandigram, hints at Bengal opposition reset
Kolkata: Former West Bengal chief minister’s support to the Congress candidate in the Nandigram assembly bypoll is a striking reversal of decades of political rivalry, observers feel, signalling a possible recalibration of…
- Kolkata
Mahua Moitra moves UN body over ‘exclusion of Muslim officers’
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra has written to the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues alleging that senior Muslim IAS and IPS officers in West Bengal were excluded from official…
- Kolkata
17 rebel Trinamool MPs to join BJP before or after Durga Puja
Kolkata: Rebel TMC leader and Cooch Behar MP Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia on Monday, September 14, claimed that 17 of the 20 MPs of the NCPI are set to join the BJP…
- Kolkata
CM Suvendu leads procession near JU to uphold saffron dignity
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday, September 9, led a massive procession in south Kolkata, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) saying it was aimed at upholding the “dignity”…
- India
ED raids premises linked to Urdu daily promoted by TMC MP
Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate on Monday, September 7, raided premises in Kolkata, Delhi and Ranchi as part of an investigation against an Urdu daily promoted by TMC Rajya Sabha MP Nadimul Haque,…
- India
BJP condemns ‘anti-national’ slogans amid JU graffiti war
Kolkata: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would not enter university campuses, but those writing anti-national slogans should be dealt with firmly, the party’s West Bengal unit chief Samik Bhattacharya said on Sunday,…