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Reading with Frontline | Anusua Mukherjee

Published : Dec 21, 2024 14:20 IST - 4 MINS READ Dear Reader, In my search for alternative realms to inhabit, I think I have found a home in the world of plants and trees. German forester Peter Wohlleben’s book, The Hidden Life of Trees, published in 2015, quickly attained cult status by putting forward the hypothesis of a “wood-wide …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Enforcement Of Litigant's Undertaking Continues Notwithstanding Disposal Of Matter Till Such Undertaking Is Discharged: Calcutta High Court

Live Law

On 22.11.2024, a Division Bench of the High Court at Calcutta comprising of Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Gaurang Kanth, while dismissing an appeal from a contempt petition filed against the partners of M/s Bengal Industrial Corporation by Rajasthan Fertilisers & Chemical Corporation Limited held “contempt proceeding has been instituted to enforce an undertaking given by. On 22.11.2024, a Division …

High Court Court Contempt Order Calcutta Suit Corporation

3 weeks ago

West Bengal Assembly passes resolution seeking withdrawal of Waqf bill, BJP stages walkout

India TV News

The West Bengal Assembly passed a resolution on Tuesday urging the withdrawal of the Waqf Bill 2024 in Parliament. The resolution expressed concerns that the bill, if enacted, could disrupt the administration of Waqf properties across the country and called for careful deliberation before making any significant changes to the existing law. The resolution also highlighted fears that several provisions …

West Bengal Assembly Muslim Pti Nda Parliament Jpc Passes Resolution

3 weeks, 4 days ago

7 men who killed 23-yr-old in 2020, chopped body into pieces, get death penalty

Hindustan Times

KOLKATA: Seven persons were sentenced to death by a court in West Bengal’s Hooghly district on Thursday in connection with a 2020 murder case in which a 23-year-old man was abducted, strangled and his body chopped into six pieces. Bishnu Mal, was abducted near his residence by Bishal Das, who was involved in multiple criminal cases, and his associates “The …

Body Das His Associates Bishal Das Bishnu Mal

4 weeks ago

Trinamool Congress sets up three disciplinary committees

Hindustan Times

The Trinamool Congress on Monday set up several disciplinary committees at different levels to track party leaders who cross the red lines and take action against them, the party announced after a meeting of the party’s national working committee. TMC chairperson and chief minister Mamata Banerjee withTMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and others at a core committee meeting at …

Disciplinary Party Leaders Mamata Banerjee Committee Parliament Ray

4 weeks ago

Resolution opposing Waqf Amendment Bill, 2024 to be tabled in WB Assembly

Deccan Chronicle

Kolkata: West Bengal Parliamentary Affairs minister Sovandeb Chattopadhyay on Monday said that a resolution opposing the Waqf Bill, 2024 will be tabled in the state Assembly but the date has not yet been fixed. Talking to reporters on the first day of the West Bengal Assembly winter session, he said that the date on which the resolution opposing the contentious …

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1 month, 1 week ago

A Slight Angle Review: LGBTQ+ Stories in Colonial India’s Freedom Struggle

The Hindu

Published : Nov 10, 2024 22:25 IST - 3 MINS READ It is the 1920s: India is on edge as concepts of technology, politics, freedom, love, and the arts undergo rapid transformation. At the core of this churn is the freedom struggle, which forms the backdrop to Ruth Vanita’s latest novel, A Slight Angle. A Slight Angle By Ruth Vanita …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

West Bengal Weather Today: Floods fuel political tensions as heavy rains continue to disrupt life

The Hindu

Kolkata As heavy rains continued to lash Kolkata and large parts of south Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee asked government officials to stay vigilant about flood situations and water borne diseases. The West Bengal State administration and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has claimed multiple times that this flood is “man-made” due to unrestricted water release from DVC dams. On September …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

West Bengal: Minor girl 'molested' by lab technician at Howrah's govt hospital, arrested

India TV News

A laboratory technician has been arrested for allegedly molesting a minor girl at a state-run hospital in West Bengal’s Howrah district, police said on Sunday. The incident took place on Saturday evening at Howrah District Headquarters Hospital, where the 12-year-old girl was admitted last week, they said. Meanwhile, members of the Democratic Youth Federation of India, the youth wing of …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Potato crisis in West Bengal; suppliers, cold storage owners fear huge losses

The Hindu

Kolkata The West Bengal government has stopped trucks filled with potatoes at the West Bengal-Odisha border for over two days with all trucks being asked to return to Bengal on July 26. I hope the prices drop even further.” The ban on out-of-State supply was highly criticised by potato wholesalers and cold storage owners as they count huge losses amid …

Odisha Kolkata West Bengal Prices West Hindu State

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Review of Nico Slate’s Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay — The Art of Freedom: Ahead of her time

The Hindu

Nico Slate’s biography of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay brings her vividly and elegantly to life. Even as he describes Kamaladevi’s intense involvement in issues of the time, whether it is Gandhi’s campaigns, or the pull of politics, or her many writings, her travels in India and abroad, her strong views on inequality and racial discrimination, or her commitment to art, culture, theatre, …

Art India Women Woman Slate Kamaladevi Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

5 months, 4 weeks ago

TMC MLAs fail to take oath in West Bengal as Governor CV Ananda Bose leaves for Delhi

India TV News

The deadlock over the swearing-in of two newly elected TMC legislators continued today as West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose refused to hold the programme in the assembly as requested by them, and instead left for New Delhi, officials said. Raj Bhavan had earlier invited the two, who were elected to the assembly in recent by-polls, to take the oath …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Bengal man denies making sexual exploitation charge against BJP's Amit Malviya

India Today

Bengal man Santanu Sinha, who allegedly accused BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya of 'sexually exploiting' women, accused the Congress of spreading 'fake propaganda', calling it the 'nastiest' and 'most corrupt political party'. "It is a great chagrin to me that the nastiest and most corrupt political party in the country, the Indian National Congress, being armed with a post …

Party State Bjp Post Sinha Malviya Mr Malviya

6 months, 1 week ago

Suvendu Adhikari moves Calcutta HC over post-poll violence

The Hindu

Amidst incidents of electoral violence continuing in West Bengal, almost ten days after the last elections, Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Suvendu Adhikari on Monday moved the Calcutta High Court on the issue of post-poll violence. Last week, a single judge Bench of Justice Kaushik Chanda expressed concern over post-poll violence and …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Calcutta High Court Seeks NTA's Response On Plea Questioning Alleged Irregularities While Conducting NEET (UG) 2024 Exams

Live Law

The Calcutta High Court has sought a response from the National Testing Agency on a plea questioning alleged irregularities while conducting the 2024 NEET examinations.The matter was heard by a division bench of Justices Apurba Sinha Ray and Kausik Chanda.The petitioner stated that some of the candidates could not have scored 718 or 719 out of the maximum possible marks …

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8 months ago

Lok Sabha elections | Scuffles, protests mar polling in three Bengal constituencies

The Hindu

Sporadic incidents of scuffle between supporters of political parties, recovery of crude bombs and angry protests against MLAs headlined the first phase of Lok Sabha election in West Bengal on Friday. In the Cooch Behar Lok Sabha seat, where the EC had deployed 112 companies of Central Armed Police Forces, political parties levelled allegations of violence against each other. At …

Lok Sabha Trinamool State Bjp Bengal Supporters Central Forces

9 months, 3 weeks ago

Book review: A valuable anthology of Indian sport and place of women in it

The Hindu

The Day I Became a Runner by Sohini Chattopadhyay is a compelling ode to the athletes of pre- and post-independent India who blazed a trail for women in a field as gendered as any — sport. Chattopadhyay establishes this premise in the opening chapter, ‘The Bengali Woman’s Running Diary’, which explores the origins of her own journey as a hobby …

India Usha Chattopadhyay

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Calcutta HC rejects plea of Nisith for relief in attempt to murder case

Deccan Chronicle

Kolkata: Union minister of state for home affairs Nisith Pramanik received a setback on Thursday when a circuit bench of the Calcutta High Court rejected his prayer for relief from arrest in a case of attempt to murder against him. A division bench of Justice Rai Chattopadhyay and Justice Surya Prakash Kesarwani of the HC Jalpaiguri circuit bench turned down …

Case Circuit Bench Mr Pramanik

1 year ago

The Hindu on Books | Agyeya biography wins NIF Prize, reading Mary Beard, talking to Twinkle Khanna and more

The Hindu

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. The book sees the Hindi poet’s life as a microcosm of 20th century cultural history, with a formidable cast of characters from writers like Premchand – who gave him his moniker; Agyeya was born Sachchidananda -- Phanishwarnath Renu, Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand and Josephine Miles to Prime Minister Jawaharlal …

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1 year ago

Calcutta High Court Monthly Digest: November 2023 [Citations 325- 338]

Live Law

NOMINAL INDEX Damodar Valley Corporation v BLA Projects Pvt Ltd 2023 LiveLaw 325 In the matter of: Sanjay Kashyap & Anr 2023 LiveLaw 326 Babu Mondal & Ors. 2023 LiveLaw 337 In Re: Dr Kalyanmoy Ganguly 2023 LiveLaw 338 No ‘Contra-Indicia’ To Un-Seat Venue: Calcutta High Court Reiterates The Law On Seat & Venue In Arbitral Proceedings Citation: 2023 LiveLaw …

India Justice Kolkata High Court West Bengal Criminal Proceedings Council

1 year ago

Bengal LoP Suvendu Adhikari suspended for winter session after making objectionable remarks against Speaker

Live Mint

Bharatiya Janata Party MLA and the Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari was on Tuesday suspended for the entire winter session of the West Bengal Assembly for making objectionable remarks against Speaker Biman Banerjee. The Speaker has issued instructions to expunge the statement from assembly records, following which the BJP MLAs led by Suvendu Adhikari trooped down to the well …

West Bengal Speaker House Bjp Tmc Suvendu Adhikari Suvendu

1 year ago

Bengal LoP Suvendu Adhikari suspended for winter session of assembly for using objectionable language

India TV News

West Bengal: Senior BJP leader and LoP Suvendu Adhikari was suspended for the entire winter session of the West Bengal Assembly on Tuesday, following allegations of making objectionable remarks against Speaker Biman Banerjee and creating a ruckus in the House. Speaking after Adhikari was suspended from the Assembly, West Bengal Parliamentary Minister Sovandeb Chattopadhyay said, ".I have never seen anything …

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1 year ago

Parambrata Chattopadhyay marries Piya Chakraborty, ex-wife of Anupam Roy | 3 things about the secret marriage

India TV News

Actor Parambrata Chattopadhyay who extensively works in Hindi and Bengali films recently got hitched to Piya Chakraborty, who is musician Anupam Roy's ex-wife. According to a report in E-Times, Parambrata and Piya tied the knot in the presence of their family members and closed ones at the actor's Kolkata residence. Piya Chakraborty currently works in an NGO and was previously …

Kolkata Bengali Chattopadhyay Piya Parambrata Chattopadhyay Parambrata Piya Chakraborty

1 year ago

Review of Sohini Chattopadhyay’s The Day I Became a Runner: What does sport offer women in a gendered society?

The Hindu

For the last 10 years or so, I have been running three days a week around my apartment complex. Imagine then, Mary D’Souza in 1952 in Bombay or Kamaljit Sandhu in 1968 in Chandigarh or even a young Usha running on the beach in Payyoli in 1980. In tracing the stories of these women in her book, The Day I …

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Reading with Frontline | Anusua Mukherjee

Enforcement Of Litigant's Undertaking Continues Notwithstanding Disposal Of Matter Till Such Undertaking Is Discharged: Calcutta High Court

West Bengal Assembly passes resolution seeking withdrawal of Waqf bill, BJP stages walkout

7 men who killed 23-yr-old in 2020, chopped body into pieces, get death penalty

Trinamool Congress sets up three disciplinary committees

Resolution opposing Waqf Amendment Bill, 2024 to be tabled in WB Assembly

A Slight Angle Review: LGBTQ+ Stories in Colonial India’s Freedom Struggle

West Bengal Weather Today: Floods fuel political tensions as heavy rains continue to disrupt life

West Bengal: Minor girl 'molested' by lab technician at Howrah's govt hospital, arrested

Potato crisis in West Bengal; suppliers, cold storage owners fear huge losses

Review of Nico Slate’s Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay — The Art of Freedom: Ahead of her time

TMC MLAs fail to take oath in West Bengal as Governor CV Ananda Bose leaves for Delhi

Bengal man denies making sexual exploitation charge against BJP's Amit Malviya

Suvendu Adhikari moves Calcutta HC over post-poll violence

Calcutta High Court Seeks NTA's Response On Plea Questioning Alleged Irregularities While Conducting NEET (UG) 2024 Exams

Lok Sabha elections | Scuffles, protests mar polling in three Bengal constituencies

Book review: A valuable anthology of Indian sport and place of women in it

Calcutta HC rejects plea of Nisith for relief in attempt to murder case

The Hindu on Books | Agyeya biography wins NIF Prize, reading Mary Beard, talking to Twinkle Khanna and more

Calcutta High Court Monthly Digest: November 2023 [Citations 325- 338]

Bengal LoP Suvendu Adhikari suspended for winter session after making objectionable remarks against Speaker

Bengal LoP Suvendu Adhikari suspended for winter session of assembly for using objectionable language

Parambrata Chattopadhyay marries Piya Chakraborty, ex-wife of Anupam Roy | 3 things about the secret marriage

Review of Sohini Chattopadhyay’s The Day I Became a Runner: What does sport offer women in a gendered society?