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Topic: West Bengal

Bengal police sees no political link yet murders of ‘RSS family’ assume communal overtones

RSS sympathiser Bandhu Prakash Pal, his wife & minor son were brutally murdered in their Murshidabad home Tuesday. Police are probing 'property dispute angle'.

Mithun Chakraborty meets RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, buzz in Bengal about his political jump

Former TMC MP Mithun Chakraborty, who resigned in 2016, had an hour-long meeting with Mohan Bhagwat at RSS headquarters in Nagpur Thursday.

NRC must for national security, will be implemented in Bengal, says Amit Shah

Addressing a BJP seminar on NRC, Home Minister Amit Shah accused West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and her TMC party of misleading Bengalis on the issue.

Posters, boat rides & tea stalls — how BJP plans to use Durga Puja to win over Bengal

BJP has instructed its Bengal MPs to inaugurate as many puja pandals as they can — state party chief says Amit Shah, Gautam Gambhir in high demand.

Indore’s rabble-rouser Kailash Vijayvargiya must breach Bengal fortress to reach Bhopal

Kailash Vijayvargiya has stationed himself in West Bengal ahead of Durga Puja to calm the frayed nerves over the prospect of a new NRC in the state.

BJP begins work for 2021 Bengal polls — picks candidates to groom in each constituency

BJP, which made massive inroads into Bengal during the Lok Sabha elections, has begun identifying 4 potential candidates for each of the 294 seats.

Can’t accept La Martiniere board denying membership as I’m non-Christian: Bengal governor

Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar says the provision in La Martiniere School’s constitution ‘directly hits’ the right to equality before law in the Indian Constitution.

Three reasons why Mamata Banerjee is losing the plot in West Bengal

BJP claims it is the new change Bengal wants. Didi may prove the party right in 2021 unless she takes time off politics to govern.

Bengal must enforce rule of law to reverse ‘flight’ of industrialists: Governor Dhankhar

Bengalis must fully exploit their potential and regain their past glory, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar tells ThePrint in an exclusive interview.

Amartya Sen has a message for Mamata: Don’t define Bengalis narrowly like BJP does

Bengali identity politics must not devolve into a hate campaign against non-Bengali speaking people. Remember what Shiv Sena did to Maharashtra?

On Camera

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.