ASANSOL: A Muslim couple at Asansol’s Sitarampur kept their word to a Hindu cancer patient they had nursed by performing his last rites in accordance with Hindu customs. Syeed Khan and his wife Reshma will also perform the shradh of […]
Bimala Maji was a peasant activist from Midnapur, Bengal who played a vital role in organising the peasant women into the Nari Bahini (tr. Women’s militia) in the Tehbhaga Movement, subverting her marginalisation as a lower class, Dalit child-widow into […]
“Jai Sri Ram slogan is not associated with the Bengali culture,” he said, adding that even Ram Navami is “gaining popularity” nowadays and he had “never heard of it before”. Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen on Friday said unlike ‘Maa […]
KOLKATA: After 30 years of battling with society for acceptance, India’s first transgender principal is facing a new crisis that involves her gender identity. Manabi Bandyopadhyay, who went for the sex reassignment surgery in 2003-2004, has been issued a release […]
Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee gave a hearing to MLAs from reserved seats for the first time in her 8-year tenure on Tuesday to take stock of the ground situation following the saffron surge in many of the 68 SC […]
On 28th June, Bhartiya Janata Party Mahila Morcha expelled one of its leaders, Sunita Singh Gaud from the party for posting insensitive and heinous comments against Muslim women on Facebook. She hails from Uttar Pradesh’s Ramkola. “There is only one […]
Tension was reported in Kaliachak and Baishnabhnagar areas of West Bengal’s Malda district on Sunday after the death of a youth, who was allegedly beaten up by a group of people on June 26 on suspicion of involvement in a […]
The failed identity politics of various parties proves that real empowerment begins with economic empowerment — as happened in West Bengal under Left Front governments. By Vivashwan Singh It is customary to criticise the communist parties in India for not […]
A whopping additional 1,02,462 people have been excluded from the National Register of Citizens (NRC), released on June 26. Explaining the exclusion, the NRC authority said, “The persons whose names appear in the Additional Draft Exclusion list are those persons […]
The 2019 Lok Sabha election result in West Bengal is not the real problem for the Trinamool Congress. The bigger worry is that it is grappling to check the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) rise in the eastern state. That the […]
