TMC dharna | Derek O’Brien, Saket Gokhale, others continue dharna at Delhi’s Mandir Marg police station

TMC dharna | Derek O’Brien, Saket Gokhale, others continue dharna at Delhi’s Mandir Marg police station

Delhi Minister and AAP leader Saurabh Bhardwaj interacts with Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Derek O’Brien during a ‘dharna’ staged by the latter with other TMC leaders at Mandir Marg police station, in New Delhi, on April 9, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders who were detained by Delhi Police while staging a … Read more

Mamata Banerjee slams PM Modi over comments on atrocities on Sandeshkhali women

Mamata Banerjee slams PM Modi over comments on atrocities on Sandeshkhali women

Mamata Banerjee. File | Photo Credit: AP Jalpaiguri (West Bengal) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on April 5 hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his remarks about atrocities against women and corruption, asserting that the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and her government had taken stern action against the culprits involved in alleged sexual … Read more

The Hindu Morning Digest, March 12, 2024

The Hindu Morning Digest, March 12, 2024

NSA Ajit Doval meeting Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel. Photo: X/@IsraeliPM India test-fires Agni-V ballistic missile with multiple warhead technology under Mission Divyastra In a major technological breakthrough and building in redundancy into the country’s nuclear weapons programme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday announced the successful test firing of Agni-V ballistic missile with … Read more

TMC lines up six big rallies across West Bengal in March

TMC lines up six big rallies across West Bengal in March

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. | Photo Credit: Debasish Bhaduri With the Lok Sabha polls round the corner, the Trinamool Congress on March 2 announced five big rallies across West Bengal between March 14 and 22, besides the mega rally at Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata on March 10. The party said in its … Read more

The Hindu Morning Digest, February 11, 2024

The Hindu Morning Digest, February 11, 2024

Supporters of imprisoned Pakistan’s Former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s and Jamaat-e-Islami party chant slogans during a protest against the delaying result of parliamentary election by Pakistan Election Commission, in Karachi. | Photo Credit: AP Pakistan Army chief backs Nawaz Sharif’s call to form coalition government Pakistan’s Army chief Gen. Asim Munir on Saturday urged the … Read more

Sandeshkhali murder case 2019 | Calcutta High Court stays proceedings before trial court

Sandeshkhali murder case 2019 | Calcutta High Court stays proceedings before trial court

A view of the Calcutta High Court. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Calcutta High Court on January 17 stayed proceedings before a trial court in the murder of two persons and abduction of another at Sandeshkhali in 2019, in which Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Shajahan Sheikh was named the main accused by the … Read more

Three notices against Derek O’Brien sent to Rajya Sabha privileges committee

Three notices against Derek O’Brien sent to Rajya Sabha privileges committee

Three privilege motions moved by BJP MPs Biplab Kumar Deb, Dr. Anil Agarwal and Bhubaneswar Kalita against TMC Rajya Sabha floor leader Derek O’Brien. File | Photo Credit: – Three privilege motions moved by BJP MPs Biplab Kumar Deb, Dr. Anil Agarwal and Bhubaneswar Kalita against Trinamool Congress (TMC) Rajya Sabha floor leader Derek O’Brien … Read more

Newly elected TMC panchayat member shot dead in Bengal

Newly elected TMC panchayat member shot dead in Bengal

The police are investigating whether the murder was fallout of political rivalry or personal enmity. | Photo Credit: Reuters A newly elected TMC panchayat member was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, police said on July 29. Another person accompanying him was critically injured after being shot at and … Read more

Shantanu Thakur demands CBI probe into Matua temple incident

Shantanu Thakur demands CBI probe into Matua temple incident

Central Minister for Shipping (MoS) and Matua Mahasangh leader Shantanu Thakur on Monday demanded a CBI probe over the major ruckus that broke out in the Matua Thakurbari premises. The incident led to injury and hospitalization of more than 15 Matua disciples. The minister also apprised the Union Home Minister Amit Shah about the alleged … Read more

‘Deeply pained’, says Mamata Banerjee on Poonch terror attack

‘Deeply pained’, says Mamata Banerjee on Poonch terror attack

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addresses a press conference at Nabanna, in Howrah on April 17, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said she was deeply pained by the deaths of five Indian Army soldiers in a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch. She extended her … Read more