KOLKATA: When domestic help-turned-BJP MLA Kalita Majhi returned home late Monday, she wasn’t greeted with any major celebration or a grand feast. “I received my winning certificate well past 10.30pm. I had barely eaten and was hungry after a day of high tension. I had ‘alu-potoler jhol’ (pointed gourd and potato curry) that my mother-in-law…
KOLKATA: ‘Bhadralok’ neighbourhoods of north and south Kolkata – considered impenetrable fortresses of TMC for over a decade – decisively flipped these elections, revealing a metropolitan electorate that traded its traditional allegiance for a “new beginning” under BJP.Professor Maidul Islam said, “There has been a demographic shift in 15 years. Non-Bengali vote share has increased…
NEW DELHI: Big political personalities were humbled in the latest round of assembly elections, with voters across West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala delivering a “vote for change” that swept aside as many as 50 ministers – including two sitting chief ministers – alongside several high-profile challengers in other states and a Union Territory.In West…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi strongly condemned the drone attacks on Fujairah in the UAE, which resulted in injuries to three Indian nationals, saying targeting civilians and infrastructure is unacceptable. Like in his past condemnation of attacks on the UAE and other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, Modi didn’t name Iran, but said India stood…
NEW DELHI: A Parsi woman Tuesday questioned a decision of the Valsad Parsi Panchayat barring women who married men of another faith from attending funeral rites of their parents, and challenged a Gujarat high court judgment that stated a woman’s religion is extinguished with marriage as she embraces the husband’s religion. Appearing for Goolrokh M…
Amit Shah and Suvendu Adhikari (Image/ANI) NEW DELHI: Pitting Suvendu Adhikari — who defeated CM Mamata Banerjee in his turf, Nandigram, in 2021 — against her in Bhabanipur was only the beginning of Union minister Amit Shah’s determined bid to take down the TMC supremo in her backyard. What followed was precise execution of gruelling…
NEW DELHI: A nine-judge Supreme Court bench led by CJI Surya Kant on Tuesday said the SC in 2006 should have outrightly “thrown in the dustbin’ the original PIL that led to quashing of Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple custom restricting entry of women in the 10 to 50 age group. “All India Young Lawyers Association’, which…
NEW DELHI: The Cabinet on Tuesday approved a proposal to raise the sanctioned strength of judges in the Supreme Court from the current 33 to 37, excluding the Chief Justice of India. With this, the effective strength of the apex court, including CJI, will rise from 34 to 38, reports Dipak Dash. I&B minister Ashwini…
KOLKATA: The assembly poll verdict in Bengal triggered a spiral of violence across the state, leaving at least four people dead, dozens injured and party offices ransacked, as rival cadres from Trinamool Congress and BJP clashed in multiple districts overnight. Two deaths were reported in Kolkata within 24 hours. In Beleghata, Trinamool poll agent Biswajit…
NEW DELHI: The drill for formation of a BJP govt in WB has kicked in, with the outgoing assembly set to be dissolved anytime and newly elected BJP MLAs likely to endorse party’s CM pick before May 9. Home minister Amit Shah, who scripted BJP’s landslide win, is likely to preside over the meeting of…
