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Sunday, August 17, 2025
TopicWest Bengal assembly elections

Topic: West Bengal assembly elections

TV focus on Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s resignation, women in ripped jeans & how BJP can win Bengal

A quick take on what prime time TV news talked about.

BJP drops ex-CEA Lahiri as Alipurduar candidate after protest, picks leader who led agitation

In its list of candidates for 156 seats in Bengal, BJP has fielded 8 Muslim candidates in Muslim-majority seats of Dinajpur and Murshidabad districts.

Arun Govil, actor who played Lord Ram in TV show ‘Ramayan’, joins BJP

Govil said his decision to join BJP was triggered by West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee's 'irritation' at the chant of 'Jai Shree Ram'.

Will never allow BJP’s NPR exercise, no citizen can be evicted from Bengal, says Mamata

Addressing a poll rally in Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal CM Mamata accused BJP of abandoning people of West Bengal at a time of crisis during Cyclone Amphan.

Mamata’s appeasement & vote bank politics responsible for infiltration in Bengal, says Modi

The Prime Minister also accused TMC of patronising underground Maoist rebels, alleging that the govt never considered Dalits, backward classes and adivasis as its own.

Masks, Mercedes and Mamata — Three mysteries TV news channels couldn’t solve this week

TV anchor after anchor questioned why Indians weren’t wearing masks, why there was a car in front of Antilia, and why Mamata’s ‘accident’ happened.

Marked change in Mamata’s manifesto amid BJP surge, CM promises slew of direct cash schemes

Trinamool's 2021 manifesto is distinctly different from the 2016 document, which mainly focused on the Mamata govt’s achievements of the previous five years.

BJP wanted to keep me indoors before Bengal polls, injured my leg, alleges Mamata Banerjee

Addressing a public meeting in Jhargram district, Banerjee alleged that earlier it was CPI(M) which used to physically attack her, and now the BJP was doing the same.

It’s BJP vs BJP in Bengal as protests erupt over naming TMC turncoats, newcomers as candidates

Since Monday, BJP workers have staged protests across several Bengal districts for fielding TMC turncoats and new faces and ignoring the party’s old-timers.

Sonar Bangla vs Joy Bangla — 19th century poets Tagore, Nazrul fight 2021 war for BJP, TMC

Both parties’ chief election slogans have been derived from two iconic poems — Rabindranath Tagore’s Amar Sonar Bangla and Kazi Nazrul Islam’s Purna Abhinandan.

On Camera

Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

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.

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?