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Until now, the Himalayan cave shrine, situated at an altitude of more than 3,800 metres and visited by tens of thousands of Hindu pilgrims every year during the summer months of June to August, was accessible only by foot.

The mainstream abstains from discussing two aspects of the partition, a dagger-act: the harm to people's struggle for a democratic, dignified life free from

How the colonial masters left this land? Two descriptions below tell their exit.

Recent floods in Pakistan and elsewhere highlight climate change is a threat to humanity with far-reaching consequences - Anadolu Agency

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With Suvendu Adhikari as LoP, its ex-TMC vs TMC in Bengal Assembly BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari has been elected as the Leader of Opposition in the Bengal Assembly. He won from the Nandigram constituency after defeating Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee. advertisement BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari has been elected the Leader of Opposition in the Bengal Assembly. BJP leader and ex-TMC strongman Suvendu Adhikari was elected as the Leader of Opposition in the Bengal Assembly on Monday. U...

Though Mamata Banerjee, who had initially sought re-counting amidst allegations of illegalities in the counting procedure, has now said she will be moving the court of law on the result.

I received a couple of cartoons on a social media platform last week. One shows a guy hopping from the bunch of grass and two flowers (the symbol of the Trinamul Congress, the ruling party in India’s West Bengal state) to a lotus (the symbol of India’s ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party). The other is a tad more direct — it shows a woman’s white-and-blue flip-flops (the ones worn by West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee) getting torn by someone stepping on them from behind. T...