Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday held the second edition of his weekly “Janatar Darbar” programme at the BJP’s Salt Lake party office, where people from different districts and professions queued up to place their grievances before him.
One of the two structures associated with Bengal’s rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam at his birthplace in Churulia has already been demolished, while the other now faces the threat of extinction after being included in a proposed coal mining expansion plan of a state-backed power generation company.
As bulldozer action continued in Topsia on Sunday, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) issued notices to two more buildings in Beleghata allegedly linked to Raju Naskar, said to be a close aide of the Trinamul Congress.
Addressing her directly on Instagram Stories, he said he never intended to hurt her and expressed admiration for their long-standing friendship and collaborations.
In the past few days, the media has been awash with reels and posts of a tear-brimmed Bengali actor-director declaring in a public meeting that he had been compelled to compromise his artistic and cultural convictions for the sake of his family.
Recent conflicts have displayed two distinct characteristics. The first is a war between neighbouring countries primarily with territorial disputes while the second is when a state or an alliance, without a common border with the adversary, seeks to force it into submission or accept its terms.
India’s newest political symbol is not a flag, a clenched fist or a revolutionary slogan. It is a cockroach.
The visit of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to India has exposed a reality that both Washington and New Delhi increasingly understand but rarely talk of openly: the India-US relationship is no longer driven by sentiment, democratic rhetoric or shared slogans about the “free world”.
The US-Israel-Iran war has brought our vulnerabilities into sharp focus; on one side is the US led by Donald Trump, who does not respect any middle ground ~ even a stray comment invites the danger of being ‘tariffed’ ~ and on the other side is Iran, which controls the Straits of Hormuz, a passageway for most of our oil and gas.
West Bengal BJP president Shamik Bhattacharya promised a major revival of industry and investment in the state within the next 100 days, claiming the new government is preparing “revolutionary steps” to reopen Bengal’s doors to large-scale investments.
