Protests erupted in pockets of West Bengal after Friday prayers on 10 June over remarks made by former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma about the Prophet Muhammad.
The agitators clashed with police personnel at Dhulagarh, Panchla, and Uluberia & demanded the arrest of the two 'saffron party leaders whose remarks have hurt religious sentiments'.
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw tells Lok Sabha that pilot project on Howrah Rajdhani Express train tech had recurring costs in the form of bandwidth charges & the internet available to passengers was inadequate.
The owner of Howrah’s Shalimar Steel firm is contesting on a TMC ticket. Labourers say they have stopped working as their salaries are due for eight months.
On 31 July, Bengal had 70,188 cases, which doubled to 1,41,837 cases in the next 24 days. Experts say if state doesn’t ramp up tests, it will have to forever wait to reach its Covid peak.
India’s foreign policy today is driven less by Western alignment or global liberalism and more by domestic political imperatives — economic, ideological, and electoral.
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