West Bengal has a substantive presence of minority population with 27% Muslims and 5.5% Scheduled Tribes. They often have a ghettoised presence and political parties take special care to secure electoral dividends from them. After the end to the left regime in 2011, the Trinamool Congress in its second term has percolated in most of the traditional left bastions, especially
Urging stakeholders to work collaboratively for the welfare of children, Nobel laureate stresses that leaders of the country should support causes benefiting young ones
Over 60 per cent of the schools surveyed were either run by the Centre or the states or were government-aided institutions and among these, Bengal was one of the high-performing states in all parameters