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Why Bengal Guv Ananda Bose gave a miss to JU convocation

West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Tuesday gave a miss to the convocation of the prestigious Jadavpur University with the Raj Bhavan maintaining that due formalities were not followed in......

Supreme Court gets a new judge, Justice Datta sworn-in

Bombay high court Chief Justice Dipankar Datta was on Monday administered the oath of office as a Supreme Court judge by Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud. Justice Datta, son of the......

Collegium elevates Bombay HC chief justice to SC

The Supreme Court collegium has recommended the elevation of the Chief Justice of Bombay high court, Justice Dipankar Datta, as a judge of the apex court. According to a statement uploaded on the......

Meet the BJP's silent army in Bengal

'They are our go-to men, our trouble-shooters.''They draw their strength from remaining low-key and accessible only to our workers.' IMAGE: Bharatiya Janata Party President Jagat Prakash Nadda......

Shah to visit Bengal on Nov 5 to discuss 2021 poll strategy

In a fillip to the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the 2021 assembly elections, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be on a two-day visit to the state from November 5 to take......

Number of people averse to govt surveys rises over 2x in 5 yrs

The number of people averse to the surveys by the National Statistical Office (NSO) has more than doubled over the last five years between the 75th National Sample Survey (NSS) round (July 2017-......

Govt confirms, Aadhaar deadline will be extended

Several petitions have been filed in the apex court challenging the government's move making Aadhaar mandatory for availing benefits of various social welfare schemes. The Centre on Wednesday told......

Ensure that WhatsApp users are not "entrapped": SC to govt

The remarks by the top court came at the fag end of the day-long hearing after WhatsApp, while opposing the maintainability of the plea challenging its 2016 privacy policy, explained the......

MoS Rathore's 8-year struggle to get Gurgaon flat from Parsvnath ends

The Supreme Court on Friday directed Parsvnath developers to hand over possession of a flat in its Gurgaon project to Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore......

Why Sivakasi will be less colourful this Diwali

Illegal Chinese imports, stringent regulations, legal tussles cost industry Rs 2,000 crore (Rs 20 billion) Sivakasi, the country’s main centre for production of fireworks, is caught in the......

'Soumitra Chatterjee is bigger than a Ray actor'

'He never went to the Bombay industry.' IMAGE: Soumitra Chatterjee and Madhabi Mukherjee in Satyajit Ray's classic Charulata. There is a story Soumitra Chatterjee likes to tell. In the......

Kolkata turns pink for day-night Test

Kolkata sheds its white-blue nocturnal hue with pink ball day-night Test.Avishek Rakshit reports from Kolkata. Kolkata has discarded the white-blue colours it had come to be identified......

Leander Paes, Rhea Pillai fail to resolve dispute

Can't force estranged couple into settlement: SC on Paes, Rhea IMAGE: Leander Paes with Rhea Pillai and their daughter Aiyana. Photograph: Pradeep Bandekar. The Supreme Court, on......

Amitava meets Sourav Ganguly

Reader Amitava sent us this picture from Hyderabad. 'This is myself (second from left) and my team with Sourav Ganguly, the world's most stylish southpaw and a successful captain of India. This......

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