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Friday, March 29, 2024
TopicWest Bengal

Topic: West Bengal

Odisha ‘rasagola’ gets GI tag after 4-year fight with Bengal’s version of ‘rasogolla’

Odisha had been embroiled in a bitter battle since 2015 over the origin of rasagola with West Bengal, which had in 2017 secured the GI tag for 'Banglar Rasogolla'.

Puja, football, Tollywood — BJP is beginning to grow roots in Mamata’s Bengal

To capture Bengal from Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool, BJP is actively courting the state’s iconic football clubs, film stars and Durga Puja committees.

Mamata’s Martyrs’ Day rally – a show of strength & attempt to win back voters

With ace poll strategist Prashant Kishor helping TMC, the rally will show if the party is still capable of mobilising people at a time when Bengal is veering towards BJP.

Modi govt calls its model village scheme path-breaking, but 35% projects yet to start

Sharp dip in participation of MPs in Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana recorded — from 703 MPs in first phase to 283 in third.

Mamata is taking back defectors from under Mukul Roy’s nose, while BJP fights itself

A number of TMC councillors who had defected to the BJP after Lok Sabha elections are returning to Didi.

After Karnataka, BJP can poach MP, Rajasthan and Bengal but it doesn’t mean end of Congress

MLAs leaving Congress don’t go to BJP because of its ideology. So those ready with Congress obituaries shouldn’t get their hopes up just yet.

Jyoti Basu, the beacon of Indian Communism who almost became prime minister

Basu was the consensus leader of the United Front after Vajpayee’s short-lived 13-day govt, but the CPI(M) did not participate—he called it a 'historic blunder'.

The Left is dead, but India deserves a new Left that dares to think afresh

It would be tragic if the Left were to disappear. For all its failures, it played a critical role in maintaining India’s democratic character.

Copy-pasting the CPM model has been Mamata Banerjee’s great failure

No matter what Didi does, nothing seems to work anymore for her. Is 2021 West Bengal assembly election already over?

Mamata’s got another headache — more and more people from Bengal want to join RSS

RSS website is seeing a steady rise in people from Bengal applying to join the organisation. Numbers show Bengal is second only to UP.

On Camera

Congress attacks chief economic advisor over statement on unemployment, asks BJP govt to ‘vacate seat’

While releasing 'India Employment Report 2024', V Anantha Nageswaran said govt can't solve 'all social, economic challenges'. Congress leader Kharge says CEA protecting 'dear leader'.

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.