NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday launched salvos at his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee over the recent violence in Murshidabad and accused her of turning a blind eyed on rioters in her state.While addressing a public rally, Adityanath said that Mamata, in the name of secularism, has enabled rioters.“Those who…
NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday launched salvos at his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee over the recent violence in Murshidabad and accused her of turning a blind eyed on rioters in her state.While addressing a public rally in Hardoi, Adityanath said that Mamata, in the name of secularism, has enabled…
“People I know are getting divided into Hindu-Muslim right in front of my eyes,” lamented Debangshu Bhattacharya, the young TMC leader who popularized the iconic Khela Hobe slogan. When the youth gets disheartened, it is obvious that the situation is dire. Debangshu’s Facebook post came on the backdrop of three deaths in violent protests in…
“The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought,” Napoleon Bonaparte once rued while reflecting on the Battle of Waterloo. A single moment can have a cascading effect, even on the strongest rulers. Is West Bengal staring at such a decisive turn, with the Supreme Court, led by the Chief…
Suvendu Adhikari’s ‘Muslim MLAs to be thrown out’ claim: Why the Left-Congress may be the real loser (Picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: “We will follow what Kejriwal did in Delhi.” No, Suvendu Adhikari, Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal Assembly, wasn’t referring to model schools or mohalla clinics. Instead, the former TMC…
“Will you accept the challenge?” a visibly animated Mamata Banerjee was heard asking in English to thousands of her party workers assembled at Netaji Indoor Stadium in Kolkata. The challenge she referred to was countering the BJP‘s electoral machinery, which the West Bengal Chief Minister believes is engaged in an organised attempt—allegedly in collusion with…
NEW DELHI: Alliance first or party first? For the Congress, one of the biggest dilemmas has been how to recalibrate its relationship with the regional parties which have dislodged it from power in states but are allies at the national level under the banner of the INDIA bloc. The Congress has been engaged in a…
KOLKATA: Junior doctors protesting the RG Kar hospital rape-murder rejected on Tuesday the Bengal govt’s invitation to discuss their grievances with a designated team at the state secretariat and decided to continue their strike in defiance of the 5pm deadline Supreme Court had set for them to return to work.The Mamata Banerjee govt’s message to…
KOLKATA: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, 80, the first Left Front CM who wanted to give an industry- and investor-friendly face to Bengal and his party, passed away around 8.20 am on Thursday at his modest Palm Avenue flat in Kolkata following a cardiac arrest. He was 80 and is survived by wife Meera and son Suchetan.Bhattacharjee, a…
NEW DELHI : West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee visibly agitated, walked out of the Niti Aayog meeting on Saturday and accused the central government of “insulting” her deliberately by not providing enough time to talk, while NDA members present at the meeting were given ample time to do the same.The TMC supremo, who did…
