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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.
Editor's picks

West Bengal: Suvendu govt to bring law against goon syndicates that threaten and extort money from businesses

OpIndia Staff -
To make West Bengal free from syndicate charges and extortion, the state budget stressed “an urgent need to significantly improve the investment climate by reducing the 'cost of doing business' caused by extortion and interference” by bringing a new legislation to dismantle syndicate raj.
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.
News Reports

From recruiting 1 lakh people and building infrastructure to welfare schemes and increasing connectivity: Read how the BJP government is transforming West Bengal through...

OpIndia Staff -
The end of Mamata's regime has ushered Bengal into a new era of development. The double-engine government in the State is bringing structural transparency, building central partnerships (such as PM-SHRI, Ayushman Bharat, and SASCI), and re-industrialising Bengal. This budget is a roadmap to building a secure, economically competitive, and culturally rooted Sonar Bangla.
Editor's picks

Suvendu Adhikari to table pending CAG reports exposing corruption of Mamata regime: Here is what we know 

OpIndia Staff -
The last CAG report presented in the Assembly was for the 2020-21 financial year, during the TMC government's tenure.
News Reports

PM Modi commissions three indigenously built Indian Navy platforms in Kolkata: Read what they are and why this is significant

Shriti Sagar -
While all three vessels were built in India and share the common objective of strengthening India's maritime capabilities, each ship serves a very different operational purpose.
Crime

West Bengal: Police arrest wife of self-proclaimed ‘Pushpa’ of Falta, Jahangir Khan, accused Sarina Bibi had led a Muslim mob to attack cops and...

OpIndia Staff -
Jahangir Khan, the self-declared 'Pushpa' of Falta, had been in custody since 8th June. Sarina Bibi led a mob of local Muslims to free him but was later chased away by the cops and central forces.
Editor's picks

SIR and fall of Mamata govt brings 900 cr business of illegal immigration of Bangladeshis into India to a halt: Read how infiltration was...

OpIndia Staff -
The Special Intensive Revision and the fall of the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) government have brought the massive underground network facilitating illegal border...
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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