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Painted blue and yellow, private buses in Kolkata are often seen racing down the city thoroughfares even as the commuters inside the vehicles send up silent prayers while trying to keep themselves somehow perched on the edges of their seats. These buses are seldom seen as identification markers of the city as trams or yellow taxies.
A very unsettling debate that concerns the whole West Bengal has been stirred by a fresh disclosure of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). Data to the state Election Commission reveal that nearly 34 Lakh (3.4 million) Aadhaar card holders in the state have been marked as deceased. Just the sheer magnitude of the figure has been enough to make people stand and stare. As a matter of fact, the public outrage mainly revolves around the date of the occurrence, i.e. the day when revising the voter list in the state is in full swing.
Winning the mayoral election of New York, Zohran Mamdani has charted a remarkable course. As the first Muslim and South Asian mayor, he will be the first immigrant to ascend the City Hall in nearly 50 years.
The Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai inaugurated the one of a kind Constitution Preamble Park at Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar School of Law, celebrating the nation’s solidarity under one constitution.
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee met Bangladesh High Commissioner M Riaz Hamidullah at the state secretariat Nabanna for the first time in 9 years. The courtesy meeting was held to discuss motives behind incidents like the vandalism of a site linked to Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore in Bangladesh.
Dhubri, a Muslim majority district in Assam bordering Bangladesh, descended into chaos as communal violence took root. The cause— suspected cattle remains near a Hanuman temple right around Eid Al Adha.
What was a popular picnic spot, turned into a nightmare for tourists when an aging iron footbridge over the Indrayani River in Kundmala collapsed in Pune’s Maval taluka. Although eye witness accounts claim higher numbers, at least four casualties have been reported with over 30 injured, among which 6 critical.
The government of Kerala is pressing the central government to amend the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 to allow controlled culling of wild animals that have been threatening human lives and livelihoods in the state.
Bihar seems to have a penchant of being in the news be it owing to JP’s call of total revolution or the Bhagalpur blindings or the fodder scam. The state may.find itself in the news again soon post a new leader whose political party is part of the NDA coalition has thrown his hat in the ring for the chief minister’s post even as the state inches closer to election.
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