Celebrations at Thakurnagar, the headquarters of the Matua sect in North 24-Parganas, started on Wednesday right after the chief of the sect and local BJP MP Shantanu Thakur took oath as junior minist...

When there is excitement over a speech that asserts what should have been normal, it is clear that India is going through hard times. In the Justice P.D. Desai Memorial Trust lecture, the Chief Justic...

Did you know that the last question in Pew Research Center’s widely discussed ‘Religion in India’ survey reveals that 46 per cent of all Indian men wear beards? It’s shocking b...

The only solace for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in a challenging political year is that the year has, arguably, been worse for the Congress. The latter lost all three states — Assam, Puduc...

Sometimes, the major battles of our time get caught in coteries and clubs and float adrift from the democratic imagination. The debate around the Central Vista project is one such event. How does one ...

Bishnupur BJP MP Saumitra Khan on Monday demanded statehood for the Rarh Bengal region before “we will be called outsiders on our own land”. “On one hand, Bengal is turning into a r...

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Mamata Banerjee on Monday said her government was working to join the “One nation, one ration card” scheme — which is yet to be implemented in the state — and Bengal is likely ...

BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari has reportedly urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah to expedite the process of implementing the CAA in Bengal. Several BJP insiders this re...