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The central varsity authorities have charged the economist with grabbing a parcel of land at his ancestral home, Pratichi, in Santiniketan
Text Size: A+ Raina, Jamalpur, Galsi: The violence in Kolkata began right after the West Bengal assembly election results were declared on 2 May. Abhijit Sarkar, a 35-year-old BJP worker and an idol maker in North Kolkata, was among the first victims. His older brother Biswajit Sarkar told ThePrint that Abhijit was allegedly dragged out of his house in the afternoon by a group of around 30 to 35 people, including women, and past the canine shelter and small veterinary unit that he ran for ailing dogs picked off the streets. âThe attackers used the cable wires to make a noose around h...
Kartik Kakar On Sunday night, within hours of Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjeeâs spectacular return to power, a group of alleged TMC supporters attacked the resident of Kamal Mandal. Mandal is the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party unit for booth 171 in Jagatdal constituency of North 24 Parganas district; the TMC won the Jagatdal seat on Sunday. Mandal and his wife were beaten with bamboo sticks. His 80-year-old mother, Shobharani, tried to intervene but was hit too. All three were later hospitalised and Shobharani succumbed to her injuries. At Hooghlyâs Khanakul, whose...
DGP West Bengal Police & Kolkata Police Commissioner summoned by West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar. (ANI photo) KOLKATA/NEW DELHI: The Union home ministry on Monday sought a detailed report from the Bengal government on the “post-election violence targeting opposition political workers in the state” that left 11 people dead since Sunday evening. BJP reported six deaths in the alleged backlash, including of a party worker in Kolkata who was lynched soon after he posted videos on Facebook narrating how goons killed his pet dogs, and of an elderly woman in North 24-Parganas trying to sa...