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Brutal attack on JNU shook Park Circus women to start sit-in, says won’t budge till CAA, NRC taken back

Kolkata: The news of women going for an indefinite sit-in demonstration was rife in Kolkata since New Year eve, but where and how wasn’t clear, till a handful of women walked into the Park Circus...

How NPR got stalled in Bengal? A step, activists believe non-BJP states should follow too

Kolkata: Bengal-based activists working for mass mobilisation for the anti-National Register for Citizenship (NRC) and Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in West Bengal have heaved a sigh of relief as process for National Population Register (NPR)...

Unlike today, back in 2012, media was not as organised and hostile as it is now- Kavita

Kolkata: Sitting at the CPIML’s modest office in Kolkata’s Creek Row, Kavita Krishnan seemed to be in sync with not just the pace of the city but also the political scenario in Bengal. In, fluent...

With CAB and NRC, bewakoof government puts common man in line of fire, just like demonitisation and GST- Kannan

Kolkata: At a time when political leaders were busy in the Parliament debating on Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) as it was introduced by Home Minister Amit Shah, Kavita Krishnan along with other CPIML leaders were...

JNU Alumni protest fees hike in Kolkata, gets support from several Universities

Kolkata: Students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) have been quite vocal and determined about the fee hike proposed by the University management. Students enrolled with the university have not just taken on the streets of...

Welcome to Bengal, where there is not one or two, but thirty Muslim Professors who teach Sanskrit

Kolkata: At a time when faculty members both present and past have even written to the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, requesting him to intervene and stall the appointment of Dr Feroze Khan in...

Black marketers arrested selling India-Bangladesh first day-night test match tickets

Kolkata: On the eve of historic first-ever Day-Night Test cricket to be played in India at the iconic Eden Gardens, Kolkatans seems to have gone back to Seventies and Eighties. Yes, you heard that right....

Bengali Muslims seek answers for their less percentage in jobs, stereotype in Bengali Cinema

Kolkata: Not many would know about the Hunter Commission set up by the British to prepare a report on why Indian Muslims were revolting against their regime, just like the Sachar Commission was asked to...

Why spend tax-payers money on detention centres if illegal migrants won’t be deported to Bangladesh, asks Anti-NRC Forum

Kolkata: Joint Anti-NRC Forum, which has been protesting against the proposed implementation of National Register of Citizens (NRC) and Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB)  in West Bengal and rest of India after Assam,  has now waged...

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Kolkata: Rohingya exodus and persecution is perhaps the most planned genocide in recent times. We all know how the Rohingya refugees flee from their...

Being Human: Volunteers from different walks of life help most affected ones to fight COVID-19 crisis

Kolkata: The worst affected by the 21-day ongoing lockdown which has been imposed to break the chain of COVID-19 virus, are the poor, daily...

Opposition leaders rally in support of Rahul Gandhi after disqualification from Parliament

Kolkata: Journalist Siddique Kappan, who was released on bail after serving more than two years in jail, fact-checker Mohammed Zubair, who got bail after...

How ‘No Vote To BJP’ becomes a movement in Bengal

Kolkata: Sumita Das is a practicing doctor while Samim Ahmed is a professor and Kashturi Basu is a full time social activist and documentary...