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Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen to return to Kolkata after two decades

Shraddha Pandey -
As the news of the potential return of Taslima Nasreen to Kolkata surfaced, Islamists in and outside the political circles of West Bengal got triggered.
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Kolkata: No Martyrs’ Day rally in front of Victoria House this year, Congress and two factions of TMC to organise 3 parallel events at...

OpIndia Staff -
The Calcutta High Court has directed the Mamata Banerjee faction of Trinamool Congress (TMC) to shift its annual Martyrs’ Day rally away from its...
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From calling Ramayana ‘cartoon’, making gaumutra jibes to harassing TMC critics with FIRs: Meet Nilanjan Das, the henchman of Mamata Banerjee who was thrashed...

Shraddha Pandey -
The TMC leader has an opprobrious record of threatening FIRs against anyone who criticized his party or Mamata Banerjee. Nilanjan Das is a close aide of TMC motormouth MP Mahua Moitra.
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Ritabrata Banerjee faction of Trinamool Congress takes control of party headquarters in Kolkata’s EM bypass, claim they are the real party

OpIndia Staff -
In a dramatic escalation of the ongoing power struggle within the Trinamool Congress (TMC), the rebel faction led by Ritabrata Banerjee took control of...
Opinions

Nazia Elahi Khan is an excuse: Islamists of Kolkata are desperate to show some street power after losing their political power

Rukma Rathore -
The political heft and the non-stop access to power for the Islamists have ceased with the dismissal of the TMC government in West Bengal. The numerous protests, violent threats and complaints against Nazia are a symptom of that.
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Supreme Court stays Delhi HC order directing release of 1993 Bowbazar blast ‘mastermind’ Rashid Khan who ‘intended to kill Hindus in Kolkata’: Read what...

Anurag -
The 1993 Calcutta explosion killed 69 people after stockpiled explosives detonated inside a clandestine workshop. First CPM govt in 2007 and then TMC govt in 2015 tried to prematurely release mastermid behind the explosion, Rashid Khan.
Crime

‘He was the mastermind’: SC stays Delhi HC order releasing 1993 Kolkata Bowbazar blast TADA convict Rashid Khan

OpIndia Staff -
"If we don’t grant interim relief (stay) and he is released in between then this will become infructuous," the SC declared.
News Reports

Hassan Suhrawardy was no ‘academic’: He was a Muslim League Jihadi, whose nephew was the ‘Butcher of Bengal’ – why Gopal Mukherjee deserves his...

Shriti Sagar -
The road has now been named after Gopal Chandra Mukherjee, popularly known as Gopal Patha, a controversial but influential figure linked to the events that followed the Great Calcutta Killings of 1946.
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PM Modi leads the 12th International Yoga Day celebration from Kolkata, underscores the importance of yoga for individuals and the world

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi guided participants and corrected their postures as they performed yoga.
Government and Policy

West Bengal: BJP govt decides to revive Kolkata’s historic tram network using modern imported cars, two years after TMC govt decided to shut down...

OpIndia Staff -
The newly formed BJP government in West Bengal under Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has announced plans to revive Kolkata’s historic tram network by deploying...
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