Author: Tirthankar Mitra
The upcoming October 6 by-elections in Nandigram and Rejinagar have turned into a crucial referendum on Bengal’s political ground reality. While the BJP seeks to consolidate its hold, the contest between Mamata Banerjee’s loyalists and Ritabrata Banerjee’s dissident bloc will decide who commands actual public support as the state’s true opposition voice.
The Suvendu Adhikari-led BJP government is preparing to overhaul the nomenclature of Kolkata’s iconic thoroughfares, targeting Lenin Sarani, Karl Marx Sarani, and Ho Chi Minh Sarani. With a high-level committee set to table recommendations in the Assembly after Durga Puja, the initiative marks a significant ideological realignment across the city’s public landscape.
The Rajasthan urban civic poll results revealed a divided electorate on Monday as the BJP won 86 municipal bodies and the Congress secured 46, leaving 177 councils hung. While the BJP dominated Jaipur, Udaipur, and Kota, the Congress staged historic upsets in Ajmer and Jhalawar, significantly narrowing the electoral gap across urban centers.
The West Bengal Assembly’s passage of the University Administration Amendment Bill grants the state unchecked powers to transfer college and university staff. While pitched as a reform to aid newer institutions, the move strikes at the core of campus autonomy, raising fears that punitive transfers will be used to silence critical academic voices.
A hundred days into Suvendu Adhikari’s tenure as West Bengal Chief Minister, the BJP government displays an ambitious industrial agenda alongside worrying governance instincts. As cultural confrontations and early extortion charges surface, the administration faces a critical test of economic delivery ahead of crucial civic elections.
BJP’s first months of office in West Bengal have revealed twin outcomes. They are the possibilities which Subhendu Adhikari-led state government can turn into positive upshots together with the limits of regime change.
Sonia Gandhi has long occupied the centre of Indian politics while revealing little about herself. She has been most ubiquitous and elusive for three decades.
An area stretching far beyond Nepal and Tibet, both engulfed in a devastating flood is feeling the fallout of the disaster in which 350 people have died and toll is set to rise. Citizens from a number of countries have lost their lives hence the global impact.
India’s solar ambitions have begun to produce substantial findings post passage of Aditya-Li, the country’s first dedicated space based observatory mission to study the sun. It can change the understanding of one of nature’s most fundamental problems.
Dolly Parton was around six when she wrote her first song Little Tiny Tussletop, an ode to her doll with cornsilk hair. She got her first real guiter when she was eight.