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Supreme Court likely to hear Suvendu Adhikari’s petition to transfer Mamata Banerjee’s election result plea outside Bengal

OpIndia Staff -
Fearing a fair hearing may not be possible in Calcutta High Court, Suvendu Adhikari had moved a petition before Supreme Court on July 14.
News Reports

West Bengal: Cattle smuggles from Bangladesh attack BSF team at the border in Cooch Bihar, two smugglers killed while one jawan injured

OpIndia Staff -
After Bangladeshi cattle smugglers attacked BSF personnel with iron rods, sticks and sickles, BSF retaliated and 2 smugglers were killed
News Reports

ED and CBI officials probing Narada sting case need not appear before WB assembly speaker on his summons, rules Calcutta HC

OpIndia Staff -
The HC order is a huge relief for the CBI and ED probing the Narada sting case since WB Assembly Speaker had summoned them several times
Politics

Mamata Banerjee wins Bhabanipur assembly seat, BJP says courtesy to fake voters

OpIndia Staff -
The bypolls were conducted because Mamata Banerjee lost the Nandigram seat she was contesting from in elections held earlier this year to BJP's Suvendu Adhikari.
OpIndia Explains

Remembering Bengal’s Pritilata Waddedar on her death anniversary, who chose to die at 21 than being caught by British

Dibakar Dutta -
Through her example, Pritilata Waddedar sent out a message to the women of Bengal that they can march shoulder to shoulder with men in liberating the country from the British.
News Reports

Unending fight of ‘Amra Akranto’: Professor Ambikesh Mahapatra continues a long battle for sharing Mamata Banerjee’s cartoon in 2012

OpIndia Staff -
While Ambikesh Mahapatra has been discharged under the IT act, the Bengal govt now wants to slap IPC sections 500 and 509
News Reports

Bengal Bypolls: Congress candidate from Samserganj reluctant to contest to avoid a clash with his twin brother, who is local TMC MP

OpIndia Staff -
Samserganj Congress candidate wants to withdraw because his twin brother, a TMC MP, is in charge of election campaign of the TMC candidate
News Reports

Battle-line drawn between BJP and Mamata Banerjee in Bhabanipur after Congress withdraws from the race

OpIndia Staff -
The Congress party has decided not to field a candidate against Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee for the Bhabanipur by-election
Crime

Bengal post-poll violence: 10 more cases registered by CBI after orders of Calcutta High Court came, total cases now 31

OpIndia Staff -
This comes shortly after the CBI made the first two arrests on August 28 of Biju and Aasima Ghosh, charged with the murder of BJP worker Dharma Mondal and two others in West Bengal’s Nadia district.
Political History of India

Tracing the events that led to Direct Action Day and genocide: From the late 19th Century to the Partition of Bengal, and beyond

K Bhattacharjee -
75 years have passed since Direct Action Day but still, a day does not go by when it does not impact current events.
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