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: Wednesday, May 12, 2021, 2:30 AM IST FPJ Edit: In the fight against Covid, as the govt retreats, the finest examples of citizenry come to the fore across the nation The Sikh community in Delhi successfully introduced a new kind of langar — oxygen langar One redeeming feature of the nationwide fight against Covid-19 is the increasing involvement of the citizenry. As there is a mismatch between the claims of the government — both Central and state — and the reality on the ground, more and more civil society organisations have been coming forward to bridge the gap. What’s...

KOLKATA: The Trinamool Congress’ spectacular win in the West Bengal polls could be a case study of how a party could prevent massive consolidation of Hindu votes in a state having a 30% Muslim population. The ruling Trinamool worked on various caste, sub-caste and linguistic groups and also nursed the Bengali sub-nationalism sentiment against BJP’s majoritarian approach to counter-polarize Hindu votes. The BJP strategy worked in pockets but could not give it the push to attain the magic number. Sociologist and Presidency University’s former head of sociology and political science depa...

Belur Math, the global headquarters of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, will remain closed indefinitely from Thursday. At an emergency meeting of the governing council of the organisation on Wednesday, it was decided that Belur Math would have to be shut down immediately because of the surge in Covid cases. “Because of the rapid spread of the coronavirus, the premises of Belur Math will remain closed to visitors and devotees from April 22,” said Swami Suvirananda, the general secretary of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission. Over the last week as numbers kept rising across India, th...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said the BJP, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah, wanted to divide Bengal on communal lines like the British had done in 1905. At her four rallies in South 24-Parganas and Hooghly and road show in Howrah, Mamata repeatedly asked the people to keep alive the tradition of communal harmony in Bengal. She quoted Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam, narrated an anecdote about Swami Vivekananda and invoked Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa to make her point. “The BJP wants to divide Bengal in two. Can you recall the Bang...

UPDATED: March 11, 2021 10:18 IST BJP is likely to stress heavily on West Bengal's lack of industrial growth and decline over the decades under Left Front and Trinamool rule (File photo) A separate state Niti Aayog, one crore jobs, law against 'love jihad', religious tourism, end of syndicate raj -- these are some of the promises that are likely to feature in the much-anticipated manifesto or 'Sankalp Patra' of the BJP for West Bengal. The BJP is expected to release its vision document in the next few days, while the TMC said it would present its manifesto on the occasion of Maha Shivratri on...