BJP and RSS, one hears, were not in favour of Cow Exams: Then Whodunnit?

If everything had stuck to plans, today we would have had a nationwide cow examination, courtesy Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog (RKA) through the all-powerful University Grants...

Dinesh Trivedi Interview: “Mamata said she will put Modi behind bars”

Dinesh Trivedi, who recently resigned as a Rajya Sabha member of the Trinamool Congress, says his party ignored his advice for peace and development in Bengal, all he got...

Why is Mamata Banerjee afraid of this political newbie in West Bengal?

Dilip Ghosh isn’t known much outside West Bengal though he should be, given he could be the next chief minister of the state in a few months time.   

Suvendu Adhikari interview: “Our manifesto will be our trump-card”

West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress is now calling Suvendu Adhikari—once TMC’s biggest amigo—a dangerous desperado because of his...

Coal mafia: Shouldn’t somebody in West Bengal owe responsibility?

Bengal’s super fugitive coal dealers, Anup Majhi — Lala to his friends — and his deputy Joydeb Mondal, have been interrogated by a host of...

Bengal is a haven for cattle-smugglers: This man carries a thousand tales

The first bovine Enamul Haque smuggled to Bangladesh was a calf. In the summer of 1994 he carried the animal in his arms and walked across the border into a village in...

Didi, forget “outsiders”; first rid Santiniketan of real estate Mafia

A chunk of seasoned writers, singers and intellectuals, mostly Bengalis, are busy ridiculing home minister Amit Shah for visiting Santiniketan, a sylvan abode Rabindranth...