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Tuesday, November 4, 2025
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Topic: Bengal

Panchayat polls coming, Bengal BJP on Shah & Nadda’s radar — ‘poor booth presence, rising Left’

After internal report flagged Bengal unit's poor organisational preparedness, BJP high command has emphasised need for work on the ground, it is learnt.

Bengal Partition stories aren’t like Punjab. You won’t find violence, but a world was lost

In 'The Bleeding Border', editors Joyjit Ghosh and Mir Ahammad Ali give a rare insight into the nature of Bengal partition.

Cooch Behar ‘strongman’, 11 FIRs & now in TMC’s crosshairs — who is Union minister Nisith Pramanik

Kolkata: When Nisith Pramanik, a former leader of the Trinamool Congress's youth wing, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) just ahead of the 2019...

Atul Prasad Sen—Bengal’s forgotten musical maestro who wrote lyrics on legal papers

Like Rabindranath Tagore, Rajanikanta Sen and Mukunda Das, Sen’s compositions were filled with patriotism, inspiring many freedom fighters of the time.

ED raids homes of two West Bengal ministers in teacher recruitment scam

Officials also carried out another raid at the residence of former chairman of West Bengal Board of Primary Education, Manik Bhattacharya.

Bengal has many Kalis, but TMC can’t accommodate them anymore. UP, Haryana is in the way

Moitra, TMC leadership need to have a conversation. And send everyone else a memo: Protecting Bengali identity is not the party’s only line anymore.

NCB dropping charges against Aryan Khan doesn’t excuse its misconduct. Compensate victims

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

Why Bengal and North India failed to produce any Phule, Ambedkar, Periyar

Almost all prominent social reformers and anti-caste leaders emerged in two geographical and administrative locations—Bombay and Madras presidencies—during British rule.

Poll body bans campaign by Trinamool leader who issued life threats to rival voters

Pandabeswar MLA Nanrendra Nath Chakraborty has been banned for violation of the code of conduct.

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Pakistan can’t bomb or bargain its way out of the TTP-TLP mess

Among the many problems Pakistan is currently dealing with, the TLP and TTP offer two varying dimensions of the same one.

Kerala’s silent startup surge—work near home, smooth roads, fast internet & diaspora engagement

Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.

India & Israel ink agreement to share, co-develop & co-produce advanced defence tech

Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday. 

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.