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Topic: West Bengal

Mamata challenges Modi govt to conduct UN-monitored referendum over CAA-NRC

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said the BJP government will have to quit if it fails such a "mass vote" over the amended Citizenship Act and the proposed nationwide NRC.

Modi govt looking at legal options to challenge Mamata stay on Bengal’s NPR exercise

Mamata Banerjee govt has stopped preparation and updation of National Population Register in West Bengal. Census office calls the move ‘unprecedented’.

Violence over citizenship law ebbs in Bengal, but Mamata-Governor war of words continues

Mamata Banerjee takes dig at Amit Shah’s ‘firm like a rock’ comment on Citizenship (Amendment) Act, Governor Dhankhar says everyone must abide by the new law.

Mamata govt cracks down on social media, police remove over 3,000 inflammatory posts

Kolkata Police say strict action being taken against offenders under the Cyber Crime Act as violence continues in West Bengal over new citizenship law.

Railways worst-hit in Bengal’s anti-CAA protests, but Mamata calls them ‘small incidents’

Railways have cancelled over 650 trains, and property worth crores has been damaged in anti-citizenship law protests. But only 17 FIRs have been registered.

After citizenship law, BJP has a 2-pronged strategy to woo Bengal Hindus

The BJP is all set to open facilitation centres for Hindu refugees to get citizenship, and continue its outreach to the influential Matua community.

No occasion to play politics: Bengal Governor raps CM Mamata over ads on citizenship law, NRC

Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar said the Mamata govt cannot use public money for such ads, and asked it to withdraw the claims that NRC and Citizenship Act will not be implemented in the state.

Mamata Banerjee holds emergency meeting over anti-citizenship law protests in West Bengal

West Bengal saw violent protests over the citizenship act for a third consecutive day with incidents of vandalism and arson being reported on Sunday.

Shops vandalised, Citizenship Act copies set on fire as West Bengal protests continue

Senior TMC leader Partha Chatterjee appealed for peace and assured the protesters that the amended Act would not be implemented in the state.

Protests against citizenship law reach Bengal, railway station in Murshidabad set ablaze

Thousands of people from the Muslim community blocked the NH-6 in Howrah's Uluberia. Minority bodies also called for mass protests in Murshidabad, which borders Bangladesh.

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At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

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.