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Arjun Singh, the BJP MP from Barrackpore, who returned to the Trinamool Congress on May 22.

West Bengal BJP MP Arjun Singh returns to Trinamool after three years with saffron party

Three years after leaving the Trinamool Congress to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Arjun Singh, the Lok Sabha MP from Barrackpore, returned to

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Mamata Banerjee campaigning for the 2021 elections. The overwhelming mandate for her showed that the Bengal electorate was averse to the idea of a party upholding a culture alien to its own coming to power in the State.

West Bengal: Pushback against attempts of Hindi imposition likely

The BJP’s debacle in West Bengal in the 2021 Assembly election is also proof that any attempt to impose Hindi will face stiff resistance in the State.

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Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarma. His party TIPRA Motha

Tripura: Concerns over Centre's proposal to impose Devanagari script for Kokborok

Tribal protests against the Central government’s proposal to impose the Devanagari script for Kokborok, the language most of the tribal people speak,

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Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb speaking to mediapersons after submitting his resignation to Governor Satyadev Narayan Arya, in Agartala on May 14.

Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb resigns months ahead of Assembly election

In a major development that took everyone by surprise, Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb resigned on May 14, months before the State Assembly election

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah addressing the media after meeting the family of BJP youth wing leader Arjun Chowrasia, on May 6.

Amit Shah demands CBI probe into death of BJP youth leader in Kolkata, calls it ‘political murder’

On May 6 morning, the body of Arjun Chowrasia, a local BJP Yuva Morcha leader, was discovered hanging in an abandoned house near his residence in the

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah received by West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar on his arrival in Kolkata on May 5.

Amit Shah, on a visit to Bengal, promises to implement the CAA after pandemic ends and attacks Mamata Banerjee over law and order in State

“Mamata didi you want infiltration to continue and you do not want to give citizenship to refugees who have come to Bengal. But Trinamool people hear

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Congress leader and former Union Minister P. Chidambaram.

P. Chidambaram heckled by Congress workers outside Calcutta High Court for trying to ‘save Trinamool’ in the Metro Dairy disinvestment case

Former Union Home Minister and senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram found himself at the receiving end of the anger of Congress workers when he appea

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Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at Biswa Bangla Convention Centre on April 19, a day before the two-day Bengal Global Business Summit 2022, in Kolkata.

Ceaseless sparring in West Bengal: State government and Governor remain at odds

The West Bengal government and the State Governor continue to remain at loggerheads.

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Book Review: Shreya Sen-Handley's memoir 'Handle With Care: Travels With My Family' celebrates the simple pleasures of life

One of the most interesting aspects of the book is how the author’s love of literature often dictates, either consciously or subconsciously, her choic

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A CBI team visiting the house of the Hanshkali rape victim on April 14.

West Bengal’s shame: Death of minor girl in Nadia

The alleged rape and subsequent death of a minor girl in West Bengal’s Nadia district, which Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee dismissed as a “small inci

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‘Indian Botanical Art: An illustrated history’ By Martyn Rix (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew-Roli Books, 2021)

Book Review: Martyn Rix's 'Indian Botanical Art' is a comprehensive illustrated history of the subject

Exquisitely illustrated, this comprehensive book on the tradition of botanical art in India will delight art lovers and enthusiasts of botany and Indi

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Shatrughan Sinha, TMC leader and Bollywood actor, after winning Asansol Lok Sabha seat, in Asansol on April 16.

Trinamool Congress wins Asansol Lok Sabha seat for the first time and retains Ballygunge Assembly seat in the byelections in West Bengal

Continuing its winning streak in West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress secured convincing victories in the byelections to the Asansol Lok Sabha seat and

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