Bose’s grandnephews to talk about the threat of communalism, Mamata Banerjee to celebrate it as ‘Desh Nayak Diwas’ rejects BJP’s ‘Parakram Divas’ Subhas Chandra Bose’s 125th birth anniversary “Forget not that the grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and […]
In a key development ahead of the West Bengal Assembly polls, influential Furfura Sharif cleric Abbas Siddiqui will announce his political party on January 21. Written By Akhil Oka In a key development ahead of the West Bengal Assembly polls, […]
As Bengal heads for an assembly election, there is growing speculation about the Muslim voting pattern. The dominant political sense is that the combined weight of AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi and Abbas Siddiqui, the influential pirzada of Furfura Sharif shrine […]
Mamata Banerjee also took a jibe at BJP leaders eating food with Dalit families while visiting West Bengal, saying she would ask her party workers to pay money to those hosting them. West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday […]
The rise of new political contenders threatens Mamata Banerjee’s once assured vote bank. How does the West Bengal chief minister propose to retain it? By Romita Datta It was the end of May 2019. The BJP’s aggressive campaign against Mamata […]
Lines blur between church and state as President of India becomes first contributor to the fund to build the temple in Ayodhya By Deborah Grey The Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Tirth Kshetra Trust (SRTKT) kickstarted its fundraising drive to construct the […]
“Keep your ears and eyes open because there are some people around you who are more dangerous than corona,” Trinamool Congress MP Nusrat Jahan said Kolkata: Trinamool Congress MP Nusrat Jahan has been attacked by the BJP for publicly calling […]
KOLKATA: Abbas Siddiqui, a pirzada of Hooghly’s Furfura Sharif, is set to announce his new outfit of Muslims, Dalits and Adivasis on January 21, giving a new dimension to identity politics in West Bengal. “I am going to launch the […]
Congress sources claimed that their senior leader Abdul Mannan had a fruitful meeting on Friday (January 8) with Siddiqui, one of the pirzadas (descendant of a pir) of the Furfura Sharif, a revered shrine for the state’s Muslims By Samir […]
BJP accuses MP Kalyan Banerjee of hurting religious sentiments, alleges police has refused to register their complaint. Trinamool says BJP giving comment ‘communal spin’. MADHUPARNA DAS Kolkata: The BJP and the Trinamool Congress find themselves locked in a fresh face-off […]
