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Topic: West Bengal

West Bengal is an Indian state in the eastern part of the country, and the only one in India with an incumbent woman Chief Minister — Mamata Banerjee.


The region, which was the political heart of the Bengal Presidency during British Rule, was divided into East and West Bengal in 1947. Bengal was a hotbed of the Indian Independence movement and has remained one of the country’s great artistic and intellectual centres, being home to Nobel laureates Rabindranath Tagore, Mother Teresa, Amartya Sen and Abhijit Banerjee as well as freedom fighter Subhash Chandra Bose and Oscar winner Satyajit Ray.


Geographically, the state is happily situated with the Himalayas in the north and the Sundarbans in the south. It shares a roughly 2,200-sqkm border with Bangladesh (East Bengal at the time of Partition).


For the first 30 years, the Congress ruled Bengal, but made way for Left domination for the next 34 years. In 2011, Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress — a breakaway from the Congress — came to power.

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With loss of assembly bypolls to TMC, BJP’s electoral fortunes in Bengal continue to dwindle

Sreyashi Dey -
TMC wrested Raiganj, Bagda and Ranaghat Dakshin seats from BJP, while retaining Maniktala in assembly bypolls held on 10 July. Mamata Banerjee hailed it as ‘victory of the people’.

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West Bengal is locked in a loop of one horror story after another

Monideepa Banerjie -
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Assembly bypolls: Voting underway in 13 seats across 7 states

ANI -
Assembly by-polls are being held in four constituencies in West Bengal, 3 in Himachal Pradesh, 2 in Uttarakhand and one each in Punjab, Bihar, Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh.

TMC’s Tajemul part of Bengal’s ungovernable belt. Villagers cheer, fear his Taliban-like court

+TFP Sreyashi Dey -
The flogging of a couple by TMC muscleman & Robin Hood figure Tajemul Islam has turned the spotlight on the systematic brutality of ‘insaaf sabhas’ in the lawless interiors of Bengal.

Flood-like situation in some parts of Bengal, roads closed as heavy rains anticipated till 12 July

PTI -
With several places already submerged, authorities are keeping a close watch on the rising water levels of Teesta and Korola rivers.

Bengal always had a lynch mob mentality. Now there’s political patronage

Monideepa Banerjie -
Mamata Banerjee hasn't said a word in condemnation of the Chopra incident. As for people like you and me, we just film the violence—or jump in the crowd to get a better look.
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