States

Selective Targeting? The Firestorm Over Bengal’s 60-Lakh ‘Adjudication’ List

Bengal faces a constitutional crisis as 60 lakh voters are placed "under adjudication" in the final electoral roll. Minority-heavy districts like Murshidabad and Malda lead the list, sparking widespread outrage.

SIR Row Intensifies in Kolkata as Activists Flag Voter Deletion Fears

Activists in Kolkata termed SIR unconstitutional and politically driven, alleging harassment of genuine voters and uncertainty over the Supreme Court-directed supplementary electoral roll.

Is AIMIM Rethinking Identity Politics in Bengal? The Kaliganj Clue

The entry of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen into West Bengal’s political imagination has long remained more speculation...

Who Was Mahendra Singh? The People’s Leader Power Tried to Forget

Mahendra Singh rose from mass protests, challenged power as a lone opposition voice, and was killed after declaring his identity, yet two decades later, people still gather to remember him

For 24 Years, He Guarded India’s Borders—Now He’s Standing In Line To Prove He’s A Citizen

At a hearing centre, elderly residents, families and a retired Army jawan queue for SIR scrutiny, facing missing records, paperwork hurdles and fear of exclusion while officials verify electoral histories
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NRC is an ‘unnecessary provocation being made for elections’: Mamata

Kolkata: July 30 had been decided as the d-day for 3.29 crore applicants in Assam, who have been waiting with bated breath to check...

Food For Thought: Are Traditional Bengali Dishes No Longer The Craze?

Kolkata: Bongs are big foodies. In fact, cinema and food are the twin obsession of this community not to mention literature and Robindro songeet....

854 Days And Counting, The Wait For Justice Gets Longer For The Families Of Jharkhand’s 1st Mob Lynching Victims

Latehar/Ranchi: They were on their way to a cattle fair, to sell off their last batch of oxen and start a new business when...

Swami Agnivesh assaulted by BJP Youth wing in Jharkhand

Pakur: As the Supreme Court of India asked the Parliament to bring in special laws to check lynching case, 79-year -old social activist Swami Agnivesh...

26 killed, either of starvation or being lynched, but Jharkhand’s government did little to protect Right to Life

Ranchi/Delhi:  In last two years at least 26 people have died in Jharkhand, 13 because of starvation and 13 by getting lynched. But Raghubar...

To bring about a positive change in the lives of citizens, the government has to improve its schools and healthcare centres: Amartya Sen

Kolkata: Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, who studied from a Bengali medium school and understands the importance of government-run schools in the life of the...
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