At a Birbhum rally, Mamata Banerjee accused BJP of voter list manipulation, raised concerns over Amartya Sen’s land issue, and criticised the party’s actions during Ram Navami.
The controversy over the notice issued to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is not really about a clerical error or an age mismatch.
The Election Commission says a notice sent to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen was triggered by a voter database discrepancy, not targeting, amid sharp political reactions.
At a time when nationalism is once again hardening into moral certainty, and violence is routinely justified in the name of history, identity, or destiny, Rabindranath Tagore’s global vision speaks with unsettling clarity.
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Saturday criticised the Bihar Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, cautioning that under the pretext of strengthening the system, the rights of the poor could be undermined.
Dilip Ghosh's remark has come at the time when Amartya Sen was accused of illegally registering a part of Visva-Bharati University's land under his own name.
The Nobel laureate has succinctly exposed the malaise that has permeated the central university with the statement that “a big gap exists between the Santiniketan culture and that of the Visva-Bharati vice-chancellor, empowered as he is by the central government in Delhi, with its growing control over Bengal”.
The malnutrition paradox is that there are some countries that have become economic powerhouses with persistently high numbers of malnourished children, while other countries with low levels of national income have shown an appreciable progress in combating malnutrition by investing in cost-effective, proven interventions that ensure children's access to proper nutrition.
Covid-19 is the most contagious disease we have ever encountered. At the time of writing, the Covid-19 infected 41.5 + lakh in 187 countries/regions with deaths exceeding 284124. The sharp rise in infections and deaths has caught many countries unprepared. The dexterity with which influenza viruses change their coat proteins' can hamper the development of vaccines against them.
Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s TRS voted against the legislation, but he is silent on NRC.
