New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Saturday that on the 78th anniversary of the Quit India movement, Mahatma Gandhi’s slogan of “do or die” will have to be given a new meaning — “fight against injustice, don’t be afraid”. The Quit India Movement was launched by Mahatma Gandhi […]
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A woman allegedly killed her two-year-old nephew by locking him inside a cupboard after she had a fight with the child’s mother in a village in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, police said. Police said the relationship between the two women, Tajmira Bibi and Shampa Bibi, had turned sour for quite […]
Representative image KOLKATA: Rukbanur Rehman, Trinamool Congress MLA from Nadia’s Chapra, tested Covid positive at a private hospital in Kolkata on Saturday. Rehman was admitted to the hospital for a kidney surgery. He underwent the Covid test, which is now mandatory, and tested positive. According to his family, the MLA […]
New Delhi: Amid the economic crisis in the country due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) will launch a nationwide ‘Rozgar Do’ (give employment) campaign for unemployed youth from August 9. According to the IYC the ‘rozgar do’ campaign will be launched by IYC chief Srinivas B.V. and […]
By Mihir Sharma New Delhi: This week, an Indian prime minister, dressed like a priest-king in a saffron scarf, a silver crown and a lockdown-lengthened beard, performed a sacred ritual in the ancient capital of Ayodhya. Narendra Modi thus founded a new Hindu temple on a site where, for hundreds of years, […]
We do not disrespect Ram. Islam teaches us to respect all religions, says Siddiqullah Chowdhury West Bengal Minister Siddiqullah Chowdhury on Saturday expressed reservations over the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “bhoomi pujan” ceremony in Ayodhya. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the Prime Minister of 130 crore people […]
KOLKATA: Bidhannagar MLA and state fire services minister Sujit Bose has taken up an initiative to provide online doctor consultation for Covid positive Bidhannagar residents. Through this process, patients can know what measures to take during their isolation period. “We are taking up this initiative named ‘Sparsho’ in association with […]
The party introduced a toll-free mobile number, as a part of its membership campaign in the State. With eyes set on the next assembly polls, the BJP unit of West Bengal on Friday launched a membership drive in the state, and vowed to overthrow the TMC government in the upcoming […]
A six-year-old girl, who was kidnapped and raped in the Garh area of Hapur on the intervening night of August 6 and 7, continues to be critical. Pradeep Kumar, Medical Superintendent of Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Hospital, Meerut, said on Saturday, “She was brought to us with severe injury in […]
KOLKATA: The fear among people to get too close to bodies of Covid-19 positive relatives has landed Eastern Railway’s premier BR Singh Hospital in Sealdah in a spot. The family of a patient, who died at the hospital on Wednesday and tested positive for Covid, apparently identified another body that […]