Shahnawaz Akhtar

Shahnawaz Akhtar is a senior journalist with over two decades of reporting experience across four Indian states and China. He is the Managing Editor and founder of eNewsroom India, an independent, Kolkata-based digital media platform. His work focuses on human-interest reporting, capturing lived realities, resilience, and voices often ignored by mainstream media

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‘Education of privileged’ for the underprivileged

Kolkata: Life was least promising for Kolkata’s 6-year-old Asad Khan after his father’s demise. Unable to bear the family expenses, his mother got married...

Jharkhand Congress MLAs also got Rs 75 lakhs, along with 49 lakhs: Bengal CID

Kolkata: The officials of West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which is probing the cash haul case concerning three Jharkhand Congress legislators claimed before...

Was Irfan assigned to be ‘Shinde’ in Jharkhand Congress?

Kolkata: Since the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikash Agadi government fell in Maharashtra, it was assumed that Jharkhand would be next in line. Recovery of...

Shatabdi’s catering staffs, the real hero, I am just a messenger

I am overwhelmed by the responses I am getting on my Tweet on Iftar being provided to me on the Ranchi-Howrah Shatabdi train on...

Jharkhand has the world record of the longest continuous closure of primary schools—Jean Dreze to Jharkhand CM

Ranchi: Well-known economist and social activist Jean Dreze writes to Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on the closure of primary schools for two years now...

If COTPA Amendment Bill 2020 gets implemented, many beedi workers will commit suicide, claims a study

Kolkata: Susheela, a 46-year-old native of Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli district rolls beedi for a living. She has been doing it, since the age of...