Manbazar Roars Against Mining

On Nov 2, nearly a lakh Adivasis from Jungle Mahal gathered at Patharkata football ground, Manbazar, Purulia, called by Bharat Jakat Majhi Pargana Mah...

Same Story, Two Bodies In Bengal

Bengal police report two encounters on same day with identical wording - accused snatched rifle during crime reconstruction - raising SOP questions an...

The Sacred Soil of Sex Workers

Kolkata's Sonagachi, India's largest red-light area, inaugurates 14th Durga Puja amid opposition, marking 14 years of sex workers claiming public spac...

Puja Gets Political Colours

Kolkata's first Durga Puja under BJP government paints flyovers in red, pink, yellow and orange, triggering TMC-Left jibe about saffronisation of...

SIR Showdown

INDIA bloc to hit streets over voter list purge. March to EC Oct 6, mega rally Nov 1, plea in Supreme Court. 16 lakh appeals filed in Bengal alone.

Cut! Clash! FIR!

An RSS-linked awareness programme inside Satyajit Ray Film Institute turned into gherao, vandalism and police scuffle. Now three FIRs, two against "u...

Bengal's Faculty Shuffle

Why Moving Teachers Won't Make Centres Of Excellence? Bengal's real crisis is not misdistribution but non-recruitment: 50% vacancies, no campuses, PF ...

Gherao, Resign, Purify

Kolkata Law College And The New Campus Playbook- The vice-principal of Surendranath Law College in Kolkata resigned on Friday after a 23-hour ‘g...

Discipline Is Not Desire

SC Says Bad Teaching Is Not Pocso- A teacher may be guilty of poor judgment or inappropriate corporal punishment, but that alone cannot turn class...