The BJP won just three seats in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation polls held Sunday, with its vote share having plunged 20 per cent from May’s Assembly polls.
Images, clips of alleged murders, arson, and ransacking of property and party offices have gone viral. BJP alleges 9 of its workers were killed, Trinamool claims 3 cadres were murdered.
While politicians hold rallies in states like West Bengal, TV news is flooded with visuals of angry patients, crowded liquor queues and cries for oxygen supply.
Mamata Banerjee skipped 2 video conferences between the PM and CMs on Covid — on 17 March and 8 April — with Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay having represented state.
The highest voters' turnout was registered in Jalpaiguri district at 81.73 per cent, followed by Purba Bardhaman, Nadia, North 24 Parganas, Darjeeling and Kalimpong.
There are 408 tea gardens in North Bengal — 84 on Darjeeling hills & 324 in Terai & Dooars. The labour force is key to elections in 16 assembly seats in region, 13 of which vote today.
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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