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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Bangla speaking natives left out in Assam’s NRC updation, but BJP now wants it for Bengal

Kolkata: Like Assam, Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), wants to have a National Register of Citizens (NRC) system in Bengal too. Senior BJP leader Mohit...

Seven wonders add New Year Celebration charm in Kolkata and Jaipur

Kolkata/Jaipur: The replicas of seven wonders were the preferred choice for the New Year revelers on the night of December 31, 2017, and January...

Soon feel of Bangkok in Kolkata’s ‘eco-friendly’ floating market

Kolkata: By the end of January, 2018, India will have its own floating market like the one in Bangkok. To make the floating market...

As law and order fails in Rajasthan, Vasundhara condemns killing, on day one

Rajsamand/Kolkata: Unlike Pehlu Khan, Zafar Khan and many other lynching cases in Rajasthan, chief minister Vasundhara Raje, seeing the intensity of the crime, gruesome...

Rajsamand murder: “He had not married any Hindu woman,” declares the wife, demands justice

Rajsamand/Malda/Kolkata: A wail greets you as you goes near to the house of Gul Bahar Bibi, at Syedpur village in Kaliachak, Malda district in...

All is not well for Mukul Roy, in BJP!

Kolkata: Mukul Roy, the latest recruit of Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), Bengal is not only facing challenges from his ex-party Trinamul Congress (TMC) leaders,...
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