Doesn’t Maa Durga bleed? Asks Bengal-origin artist, faces FIR, threats and gets trolled
Kolkata: Visual artist Aniket Mitra, who happens to be a gold medallist from Kolkata’s prestigious Art College, was in for a rude shock when...
Bengal’s share of shame: Beggar died from hunger and not illness, claim activists
Kolkata: West Bengal registered its second starvation death in 2018, when 68-year-old Bimla Pandey, breathed her last in her small one-room mud hut in...
As election approaches, saffron groups smell love jihad in Bengal’s air
Kolkata: West Bengal has been a focal point for the right-wing ideologues for some time now. Reports of foot soldiers of the saffron brigade...
Majerhat bridge is falling down, my dear didi
Kolkata: At least five people have been killed on the spot, and many are trapped in the debris, when Majerhat bridge, located in South...
Did a sting operation help avert communal violence during Janmashtami in Bengal?
Kolkata: Social activist Soibal Dasgupta, had delved deep into the saffron brigade’s IT cell and interacted with a number of its torch bearers to...
Thanks to Puja Committee and an NGO, Muslim doctors did not have to vacate their flat
Kolkata: Four Muslim doctors, staying at a rented house in Kolkata's Kudghat area who made it to the news for facing racial discrimination, have...
