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Friday, March 29, 2024
TopicWest Bengal

Topic: West Bengal

Stop outraging over ‘migrant’ Durga idol. Hinduism in Bengal doesn’t need rescuing

Before you tweet your outrage, educate yourself about Bengali culture first. Pallab Bhaumik’s depiction of goddess Durga as a migrant worker symbolises the spirit of women.

Covid deaths & cases rising, tests down — Bengal stares at grim scenario ahead of Durga Puja

Experts say late reporting to hospitals is contributing to the rising death toll. The Bengal govt claims people are unwilling to get tested due to social stigma and fear.

BJP, Congress, Trinamool, Left, Governor — in Bengal, everyone’s ‘being snooped on’

Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar is the latest to allege that he is being snooped on. Similar allegations have also been lobbed by and at Mamata, as well as Modi govt.

Bengal governor & home dept in Twitter spat after former claims state saw 223 rapes in August

Home department called the claims ‘baseless, misguided’, to which Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar took exception and demanded an apology.

BJP local leader shot dead in Bengal, party says TMC has started ‘politics of annihilation’

BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya demanded a CBI inquiry into the killing of local councillor, Manish Sukla.

After governor questions Bengal biz summits, govt says 50% proposals in implementation mode

Finance Minister Amit Mitra says proposals worth over Rs 12 lakh crore received at Bengal Global Business Summits between 2015 & 2019, 28 lakh jobs generated.

Complaint against BJP leader after ‘will hug Mamata Banerjee if I’m infected by Covid’ remark

BJP national secretary Anupam Hazra, a former TMC MP, had made the statement over the 'pathetic' way bodies of Covid patients were being cremated in West Bengal.

CM Mamata and Governor Dhankhar in another spat, this time over his note to Bengal DGP

Governor Dhankhar called state 'home to illegal bomb making’ and summoned the DGP, but Mamata says the demand is ‘unlawful, unwarranted and unconstitutional’.

NIA arrests another al-Qaeda operative from West Bengal’s Murshidabad

The agency had earlier arrested nine people, six from West Bengal and three from Kerala, for their association with the Pakistan-sponsored module of the al-Qaeda.

West Bengal BJP leader & fashion designer Agnimitra Paul tests positive for Covid-19

BJP women's wing president in West Bengal Agnimitra Paul had been touring districts regularly to lead street protests and undertake campaigns against the ruling TMC.

On Camera

Profit margins in lottery industry are tiny. Here’s how Future Gaming paid for its electoral bonds

Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities. 

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.