
A midnight movement near India’s porous Bangladesh frontier turned into a major border-security interception with BSF detaining 25 Bangladeshi nationals along with an Indian cross-border trafficker near Lohaganj–Panchnagar under South Dinajpur District of West Bengal. The group was intercepted in the early hours of 6 October while allegedly attempting to cross back into Bangladesh’s Thakurgaon …

The Nakurtala Sarbojonin Puja Committee pandal in the Lalbagh area of Murshidabad under West Bengal was targeted by one or more unidentified arsonists on 4th October, an apparent arson attack that could have had far more devastating consequences had the flames gone unnoticed. According to the puja committee, an unusual and seemingly deliberate mechanism was …

Local businessman Suprabhat Modak was found burned and bearing numerous deep injuries in a turmeric field behind his home in the Aminpur area of Sujanagar Upazila on the morning of 6th October. Modak, reported to be in his mid-to-late 30s, ran the Dadabhai Hotel, a sweets and food business at Kashinathpur Bazar. According to police …

Subrata Babu, owner of Subrata Dahi Mishti Bhandar in Ward No. 15 under Fulhari Union of Jhenaidah District and his nearly 100-year-old mother were assaulted following a dispute over unpaid sweets and curd. Subrata states that several people had previously taken curd from his shop by force without paying. When the same individuals had returned …

Insaf Kayemkari Chhatra Sramik Janata’s 8-Point Charter Seeks a Ban on Idol Immersion, the Removal of Puja Mandaps From Public View, Limits on the Number, Size and Height of Durga Pratimas, an End to Government-Funded Food for Impoverished Hindus, No Public Holidays for Puja and Compulsory Political Protests by Hindu Puja Committees Over Perceived Persecution …

A deeply disturbing case has emerged from Chathat under Phansidewa of West Bengal, where a 13-year-old Hindu girl has been allegedly raped repeatedly for several months. According to a police complaint filed by the girl’s father Monidip Gupta on October 2 at Phansidewa Police Station, brothers Muhammad Aabtaar, Muhammad Alam and Muhammad Iltar had repeatedly …

The attempted destruction of Flydubai Flight FZ1073 is a devastating warning about what happens when a person entrusted with the lives of hundreds allegedly turns against the very aircraft he is supposed to protect. On September 30, the Dubai–Tel Aviv flight descended violently after its Omani co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami attempted by murder Indian Captain Smit …

The Tangkhul Aze Katamnao Long (TAKL), also known as the Southern Tangkhul Students’ Union, held a press conference in Imphal warning that vulnerable indigenous Naga communities along Manipur’s international border could seek assistance from neighbouring countries, including China, if the Centre and Manipur government failed to protect them on 29th September. The statement provoked understandable …

✍️ শ্রী সুদীপ্ত পাত্র ১. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Pakistan or the Partition of India (১৯৪০/১৯৪৫) গ্রন্থে Dr. Ambedkar গোঁড়া মুসলিম নেতৃত্বের প্রতি Gandhi-র ক্রমাগত রাজনৈতিক ছাড়ের তীব্র সমালোচনা করেছিলেন। তাঁর যুক্তি ছিল, এটি বিচ্ছিন্নতাবাদী দাবিগুলিকে আরও প্রশ্রয় দিয়েছিল: “তোষণনীতির সূচনা করেছিলেন Mr. Gandhi, যখন তিনি Khilafat আন্দোলনের পৃষ্ঠপোষকতা করেছিলেন। তিনি ভেবেছিলেন মুসলিমদের দাবির পাশে …

✍️ শ্রী সন্দীপ মুখোপাধ্যায় ভারতের রাজনৈতিক ইতিহাসে জয়প্রকাশ নারায়ণের জীবন এক বিস্ময়কর বৌদ্ধিক বিবর্তনের দলিল। যে মানুষটি একদা মার্কিন যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের উইসকনসিন বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ে পড়ার সময় মার্কসবাদের প্রতি গভীরভাবে আকৃষ্ট হয়েছিলেন, শ্রমিক আন্দোলনকে মুক্তির একমাত্র পথ বলে মনে করেছিলেন, তিনিই পরবর্তী জীবনে হয়ে উঠলেন গান্ধীবাদী সমাজতন্ত্রের সবচেয়ে প্রখর ভাষ্যকার। এই পরিবর্তন কোনো আকস্মিক মোহভঙ্গ নয়, ছিল গভীর …
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