Former Air Force serviceman Chandranath Rath, a longtime aide to Suvendu Adhikari, was killed near Madhyamgram, deepening political tensions in West Bengal after the election results.
PM Modi flags corruption, sand mining disputes and law and order issues in Bengal, promising transparency measures and a judicial probe as BJP sharpens its election campaign pitch.
Police say a roadblock near a narrow bridge led to a confrontation during Tharoor’s campaign travel, resulting in an assault on his security staff and a late-night detention.
Less than 24 hours after TDP supporters allegedly attacked the house of former minister and YSRCP leader Ambati Rambabu, another incident of violence was reported on Saturday
Urging citizens and institutions alike to break their silence, Bose emphasised that collective accountability is the only way to confront Bengal’s deepening challenges.
The NCERT’s newly released Class 8 Social Science textbook, Exploring Society: India and Beyond, views the medieval period through a sharper, more critical lens -- focusing on religious intolerance, political violence, and cultural contributions during the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire.
Elections in West Bengal have been bloody affairs. Every election is routinely marred by bloodshed as political rivalry regularly turns violent.
We do not readily associate political assassination and violence with democratic and pacifist post-war Japan. In this light, it is not surprising that many reports focused on political violence in Japan as “almost unheard of”
With elections at every level of the social and administrative structure -- from a remote village upto state-level -- politics and violence to control this power equation became an integral part of the social and administrative mechanism.
Carrie Lam's administration has made little headway in defusing the city's worst crisis in decades.
