Calcutta HC orders transfer of probe into Birbhum explosions to NIA

Calcutta HC orders transfer of probe into Birbhum explosions to NIA

Calcutta High Court has ordered transfer of investigation into explosions in Birbhum district to the NIA from the state CID holding that the central agency has precedence in the investigation of scheduled offence. Vacating an earlier stay by a single bench of the HC in the NIA probe, a division bench comprising Justices Joymalya Bagchi … Read more

President Pranab Mukherjee: The people’s Rashtrapati

President Pranab Mukherjee: The people’s Rashtrapati

By Thomas Mathew Pranab Mukherjee – or Pranab-da, as many of us fondly called him — was a man who made the long journey as a small boy from Mirati, a village in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, to Rashtrapati Bhavan, without ever losing his sense of equanimity and humility. Even as a doughty fighter of … Read more