Children of the Bombs, the BBC documentary directed by Ronny Sen, reviewed newspaper reports to claim that 565 children have been killed, injured, or maimed between 1996 and 2024.
Ranjith Sreenivasan was killed in 2021, hours after SDPI’s K.S. Shan. SDPI has questioned why trial in Sreenivasan’s case is over, while suspects in Shan killing are out on bail.
Petitioner says victims facing threats from police, lack of help from state. Calcutta HC asks NHRC, state human rights commission if they can hold inquiry into complaints.
20 arrested so far for the killings of 8 people in Bagtui, Birbhum Monday night, reportedly triggered by the murder of a Trinamool leader, but villagers say they no longer feel safe.
The memory of Partition violence, or Civil War of 1947, has remained operable in two ways – first, in evacuating responsibility, and second, as a form of trauma that has been repeated subsequently.
IPS officers Suman Bala Sahoo, Soumen Mitra and Ranveer Kumar make up the SIT formed by the Calcutta High Court to probe the cases of political violence.
Bengal was going to start the second phase of BJP’s Ashwamedha yagna covering territories where regional parties held sway. Now BJP is left ensuring its workers' safety.
The last time this matter flared up was when Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, in a very similar directive in April, called for the relocation of stray dogs in the capital.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
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?
West Bengal is a cesspool. It’s the unfortunate truth.
First the Communists and then the TMC have destroyed the work ethic, entrepreneurship and cultural vibrancy of the state.
A state which led the freedom struggle in India and gave birth to a galaxy of distinguished men and women seems to be in perennial decline now.
Every sphere of human activity has been infiltrated by politics including education and healthcare. The results are there for everyone to see.
Earlier, the bright students in Assam aspired to study at Presidency College and other such eminent institutions in Kolkata. Now everyone heads to south India.
West Bengal is a cesspool. It’s the unfortunate truth.
First the Communists and then the TMC have destroyed the work ethic, entrepreneurship and cultural vibrancy of the state.
A state which led the freedom struggle in India and gave birth to a galaxy of distinguished men and women seems to be in perennial decline now.
Every sphere of human activity has been infiltrated by politics including education and healthcare. The results are there for everyone to see.
Earlier, the bright students in Assam aspired to study at Presidency College and other such eminent institutions in Kolkata. Now everyone heads to south India.