For Hindu nationalists, the size of the Muslim electorate lends extraordinary significance to Bengal. It's one of the biggest prizes for the BJP’s ideological project.
A 25-year-old nurse died of cardiac arrest 2 days after testing negative for Nipah. Doctors say she died of a secondary lung infection she picked up in the CCU. No spread of Nipah, say doctors.
Trinamool Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray recalled Mamata had appeared several times as a lawyer in various district courts of Bengal during CPI(M) rule.
As Block Level Officers in Kerala, Rajasthan & Bengal die by suicide, states raise concerns over the workload imposed on them for the completion of the SIR, within tight deadlines.
Amit Malviya is correct that Sylheti is not the same as Bengali. But what he and his team seem to lack is any sense of the history beyond that statement.
On Wednesday, BSF seized 20 gold biscuits worth Rs 2.31 crore from inside a bicycle’s tyre. The day before gold worth about Rs 2.43 cr confiscated at Laxmipur border outpost.
Bengal faces a stark reality of political decay, where decades of complicity and corruption have eroded its identity, leaving citizens to confront the consequences of their choices.
This special edition of Cut The Clutter, straight from the Siliguri corridor, details the strategic importance of the narrow strip of land in West Bengal, and how it’s a vital link connecting the Northeast to the rest of India.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
SIR has been conducted in the past, when non-BJP governments were in power and no democracy scholars were bothered about the global implications blah blah. Now, SIR was successfully completed in several states including in several opposition ruled states and no one complained. Would the author care to point out when the erosion of democracy started in WestBengal – along with the other “dimensions” of democracy as he so eloquently puts it. If he is concerned about the prospects of BJP winning in WestBengal, he should make that in simple terms and not cloak with “global implications” etc
What a baised article by Ashutosh Varshney. He is basically questioning the SIR which even Supreme Court of India has not stopped. What a lie is he spreading. I wonder how Print editorial allowed it to publish. At most it could have been a FB post or Whatsapp gossip.
SIR has been conducted in the past, when non-BJP governments were in power and no democracy scholars were bothered about the global implications blah blah. Now, SIR was successfully completed in several states including in several opposition ruled states and no one complained. Would the author care to point out when the erosion of democracy started in WestBengal – along with the other “dimensions” of democracy as he so eloquently puts it. If he is concerned about the prospects of BJP winning in WestBengal, he should make that in simple terms and not cloak with “global implications” etc
What a baised article by Ashutosh Varshney. He is basically questioning the SIR which even Supreme Court of India has not stopped. What a lie is he spreading. I wonder how Print editorial allowed it to publish. At most it could have been a FB post or Whatsapp gossip.