NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who is under all-round attack over the Kolkata rape-murder case, on Wednesday trained her guns at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and warned of adverse consequences for other states if the BJP tried to instigate trouble in Bengal. “Some people think this is Bangladesh. I love Bangladesh; they…
NEW DELHI: The Kolkata doctor rape-murder case has snowballed into a political showdown between the ruling TMC and the Bengal unit of the BJP, which has accused CM Mamata Banerjee of “endorsing” revenge politics.Highlighting it before Union home minister Amit Shah, West Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar, who also happens to be a Union minister,…
NEW DELHI: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Wednesday suspended the membership of Dr Sandip Ghosh, who is the ex-principal of Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital, where a trainee doctor was raped before being brutally killed.The disciplinary committee duly constituted by the National President Dr RV Asokan, IMA HQs has unanimously decided to suspend the membership…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday accused the BJP of conspiring to obstruct the ongoing investigation into the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.During her address at the TMCP foundation day, Mamata expressed her opposition to BJP’s 12-hour shutdown call in Bengal,…
NEW DELHI: A video of an elderly man, dressed in saffron, facing water cannons, while holding the national flag during the ‘Nabanna Abhijan’ (March to Bengal Secretariat) protest, went viral on Tuesday. The protest was organized against the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government in connection with the rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata’s…
KOLKATA: The streets of Kolkata and Howrah turned into a battleground for protesters and police Tuesday, leaving scores wounded in a shower of water cannons, tear gas, stones and bricks as the administration tried to cordon off the planned student-led march to Nabanna, the Bengal secretariat, over the RG Kar hospital rape-murder case.Police said at…
NEW DELHI: The entry of Champai Soren into BJP is likely to help it counter Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren‘s attempt to polarise tribals against the party in the coming assembly polls.Although BJP boasts of two former tribal CMs Babulal Marandi and Arjun Munda in its ranks, they never got much traction in the ST-dominated Kolhan…
DEHRADUN: A significant portion of the Joshimath-Auli road collapsed on Tuesday, which hampered access to the skiing resort of Auli from Joshimath. The collapse was attributed by local residents and activists to alleged construction work by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), which has a battalion headquarters at Joshimath. “An around 20m-long stretch of the single-lane…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Tuesday announced 29 more candidates for the J&K assembly polls, replacing party veteran, former deputy CM Nirmal Singh with Satish Sharma.The exclusion of Singh along with others had sparked protests on Monday, resulting in the list being withdrawn. The party also held its ground over fielding Devender Singh Rana, brother of…
LUCKNOW: Englishman James Shirley’s 17th-century poem “Death the Leveller” is a lyrical reminder that “sceptre and crown/must tumble down/and in the dust be equal made”.Four centuries later, as a bulldozer stopped in front of Kotwali police station in UP’s Siddharthanagar and a band of bewildered cops tried to make sense of what was happening, the…
