New Delhi: West Bengal getting ready to vote soon while tensions over SIR continue, Madhya Pradesh’s elite anti-maoist unit Hawk Force, Faridabad’s ‘trash’ mafia, and the atmosphere of confusion at government-supported Garima Greh shelters for transgender persons—ThePrint’s photojournalists and reporters capture this week’s telling moments.
West Bengal has 4.4 crore women, according to 2011 Census. In the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, women won 11 of the state’s 42 parliamentary seats—the highest women’s tally from any state in that election. CM Mamata’s core woman vote faces the test in Bengal | Moushumi Das Gupta | ThePrintForeign policy analyst C. Raja Mohan in conversation with ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta at ThePrint Off the Cuff. Mohan spoke on the war in West Asia and its implications | Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrintPersonnel from MP’s elite anti-Maoist unit, Hawk Force, undergo rigorous training. The unit has been instrumental in helping the state counter Left Wing Extremism | Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrintThe Garima Greh in Delhi supports transgender persons with documentation, counselling, HRT, & skill development. Most importantly, it offers them a sense of belonging | Vitasta Kaul | ThePrintGarbage collectors in Sector 22, Faridabad. Residents say the trash business has its own mafia. A civic collapse is visible in even the ‘posh’ colonies of Faridabad | Sagrika Kissu | ThePrintAngry residents block the stretch of NH-12 after the names of 1.35 lakh of the total 2.69 lakh voters in Sujapur, Malda, were deleted or put under adjudication under the ongoing SIR process | Moushumi Das Gupta | ThePrintMallujola Venugopal, former chief of political wing of CPI (Maoist), in conversation with ThePrint at the Gadchiroli district police headquarters where he has been residing under Maharashtra Police’s observation after his surrender last year | Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint
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