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Mamata Banerjee took charge as Bengal Chief Minister for a third straight term (AFP) Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today took a swipe at the centre over sending a team to look into violence in the state after the results of the assembly election were announced last week. The Trinamool Congress, which won the election for a third term, and the BJP have accused each other as behind clashes reported from across the state. Ms Banerjee, in an allusion to frequent confrontations it often had with the centre in the last few years, asked the BJP-led centre to refrain from sendi...

Why Did Celebrities with Bloated Egos Get the Bengal Election So Horribly Wrong? A mere talking shop Barring a few, primetime TV anchors in India have airs as if they were Salman, Shahrukh and Aamir rolled into one! They are full of themselves; brisk, brash, dismissive, interrupting invited guests before they can finish a sentence, insisting that what they say is Gospel and the rest is utter rubbish, announcing their verdict as though it’s written in stone. All this was on display on the eve of the counting of the votes including for West Bengal, when each channel had lined up half a dozen...

Is Indian media divided ideologically, like political parties? Newspapers, magazines, TV channels and social media have all come under the scrutiny not so much of the users of these news sources as from those so-called intellectuals and ideologues who are per se classified as Right Liberals and Left Liberals.  While the Left Liberals call    the Right Liberals as Communal, religious bigots, the Right Liberals call the Left Liberals,  as pseudo-secular and Tukde-Tukde gang. We can even identify and name each of the media as to which category each one belongs.  For example, ‘if you ask, ...

at 12:12PM Senior music communications executive Lynne Best has announced she will leave PPL at the end of 2020 to launch a new venture. The Fourth Pillar is dedicated to championing the rights of creators and the sustainable growth of the creative industries through communications, advocacy and policy. While The Fourth Pillar will drive forward projects with a wide range of global clients, Best will focus her efforts in early 2021 on the music sector in her homeland of Northern Ireland, having been retained by Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody and Northern Irish music executive, Davy Matchett,...