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Thursday, August 21, 2025
TopicMalda

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West Bengal post-poll violence: Individual accused of rape of 9-yr-old girl convicted

Violence erupted in state after 2021 assembly results were declared & multiple cases of murder, rape were reported, leading to filing of several writ petitions in the Calcutta HC.

Malda court grants bail to 2 women who were ‘thrashed, stripped’ & arrested for rioting

The incident, a video of which went viral, took place in a market in West Bengal last week. The 2 women were arrested the same day, while 5 people who 'attacked' the women were held too.

Video of women being stripped, thrashed in West Bengal’s Malda sparks BJP-TMC slugfest

BJP's Amit Malviya accuses CM Mamata Banerjee of 'shedding tears for political expediency'. TMC responds by calling it attempt to 'divert attention' from Manipur incident.

Congress bastion in Bengal is a divided house, literally

With two family members set to contest Malda North seat on TMC and Congress tickets, the Choudhury household takes the centrestage amid electoral battle.

On Camera

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?