Even as BJP aims to pull off a repeat of its 2019 sweep of North Bengal, TMC is on an offensive to claim Alipurduar, Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar, Raiganj, Balurghat, and Darjeeling seats.
Modi scored a big minus on the Jalapaiguri tornado issue. He didn’t say a word about it despite the tornado hitting barely 125 km from the site of his public rally.
With candidates including teachers, tour guides, single mothers & a taxi driver, Hamro Party defeated TMC & BJP. It could set tone for Gorkhaland Territorial Administration polls.
Girls from tea garden areas are being trafficked and forced into surrogacy. A ban on commercial surrogacy under the new law, say experts, may help the illegal practice prosper.
I was in Islamabad when Mark Tully broke the news of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto being hanged. I held it against him—he could have tipped me off. But he was a journalist before he was a friend.
Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.
President Murmu has also conferred Kirti Chakra on Major Arshdeep Singh of 1 Assam Rifles for eliminating armed cadres when patrol led by him came under fire along Indo-Myanmar Border last May.
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.
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