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Pallab Bhattacharya

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Trinamool, BJP clash over West Bengal voter roll purge

West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and its main rival, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), are set for a collision course as the Election Commission of India (ECI) undertakes a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the state’s electoral roll ahead of assembly polls slated for March-April next year
9 November 2025, 18:34 PM
9 November 2025, 18:34 PM
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India moves to boost textile competitiveness against Bangladesh, Vietnam and China

Faced with a 50 percent tariff imposed by the United States, the Indian government has drawn up a four-point action plan with three separate timeframes to regain cost competitiveness in the global textile market, with a particular focus on competing with Bangladesh, Vietnam, and China.
30 October 2025, 18:00 PM
30 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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India, Pakistan hockey players shake hands at Malaysia meet

The gesture by the junior hockey players of the two teams came after the men's and women's cricket teams of India and Pakistan opted for “no-handshake” policy during their respective matches in the Asia Cup in the UAE and a World Cup game in Colombo.
15 October 2025, 05:38 AM
15 October 2025, 05:38 AM
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India to launch EFTA trade pact on Oct 1

In the midst of a tariff battle with the United States, India will formally operationalise its free trade agreement (FTA) with four countries of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) bloc on October 1.
29 September 2025, 18:00 PM
29 September 2025, 18:00 PM
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Anuparna Roy’s breakthrough at Venice Film Festival

For Anuparna Roy, in her thirties, the excitement of winning an award with her very first feature film at the world’s oldest film festival in Venice is yet to sink in. The Indian media took no notice of Roy, an English literature student from Burdwan University in West Bengal, when she released her first short film “Run To The River” a couple of years ago. But today, that moment seems light years away.
10 September 2025, 13:11 PM
10 September 2025, 13:11 PM
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Bhupen Hazarika centenary sets sail on Brahmaputra with musical river voyage

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a tribute this morning, called Hazarika’s music timeless, noting how his compositions “transcended borders and linguistic barriers for decades.” That universality is embodied in “Bistirna Parore” (popularly known in Bangla as “Bistirno Dupaare”), the song after which the voyage is named.
8 September 2025, 10:20 AM
8 September 2025, 10:20 AM
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BGB-BSF conference: Push-ins, border killings to figure high

The continuous push-ins by Indian authorities from different border points despite repeated protests by Bangladesh will top the agenda of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in the upcoming 56th director general-level conference.
23 August 2025, 18:44 PM
23 August 2025, 18:44 PM
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"Even simple tasks are hard": India's first ISS astronaut on space life

Indian Air Force officer Shubhanshu Shukla, the country’s first astronaut to enter the International Space Station (ISS), has shared his first-hand experience that even simple tasks like sleeping, walking, and drinking water become very challenging in microgravity conditions.
30 June 2025, 08:36 AM
30 June 2025, 08:36 AM
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BJP banking on Bengal as Mamata eyes Delhi

If West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee nurtures larger ambitions to play a much bigger role at the national level after the ongoing parliamentary elections that by most accounts will produce a hung verdict,
17 April 2019, 18:00 PM
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Is the party going back to its roots?

Out of power for five years, the Congress Party's manifesto for the coming parliamentary elections in India has done enough to bring out once again its traditional Left-of-the-Centre ideological moorings and project a more inclusive and welfare-oriented organisation after its brief flirtation with a slight tilt to the Right for several months last year.
10 April 2019, 18:00 PM
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Rahul Gandhi goes south to revive Congress

Rahul Gandhi's decision to contest from a second parliamentary constituency—Wayanad in the southern state of Kerala besides his traditional constituency of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh in the north—in the coming national elections is an emphatic statement of his long-term strategy to rebuild his party and bring it back to power.
3 April 2019, 18:00 PM
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From betting on the poor to helping the poor

When it is election time, nothing pays more than populism. All parties love to woo the poorest of the poor segment of society to strengthen their welfare politics credentials.
30 March 2019, 18:00 PM
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Social media and Indian national elections

The drawing up of a “Voluntary Code of Ethics” by social media giants like Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and ShareChat and their intermediaries for the coming parliamentary elections in India is a landmark decision in more ways than one.
24 March 2019, 18:00 PM
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Alliance-building for Indian polls gains pace

Ever since India entered the unpredictable terrains of coalition politics in early 1990s, winning parliamentary elections and forming governments have been all about the right alliance partners.
22 March 2019, 18:00 PM
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India and the Islamic World in the March of Time

When former foreign minister of Bangladesh (under the previous Sheikh Hasina government) AH Mahmood Ali spoke at a meeting of
16 March 2019, 18:00 PM
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Wooing women voters in poll-time India

Three separate announc-ements in quick succession by bachelor Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee on March 10 and 11
14 March 2019, 18:00 PM

India tightens rules for Boeing 737 Max

India's civil aviation regulator has further tightened the rules relating to operations of Boeing 737 Max aircraft on Monday a day after a fatal crash of one such plane of the Ethiopian Airlines killing all 157 people on board.
12 March 2019, 18:00 PM

India fines Volkswagen Rs 500cr for eco-damage

India's National Green Tribunal (NGT) yesterday ordered automobile major Volkswagen to pay Rs 500 crore as fine for “intentionally programming diesel engines with cheat devices” that caused environmental damage.
7 March 2019, 18:00 PM
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Trump scraps GSP for India

The US has announced its plans to scrap the generalised system of preferences (GSP) benefits for India within two months that allows the Asian country to export up to $5.6 billion worth of products to America duty-free.
5 March 2019, 18:00 PM
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Pulwama, Balakot dominate India's pre-poll political discourse

True to expectations, the Pulwama terror attack which left 40 Indian paramilitary personnel dead and the Indian Air Force's assault on
4 March 2019, 18:00 PM
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Only possible through the dismantling of the terror apparatus

The homecom-ing of Indian Air Force Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman from two days of captivity in Pakistan on Friday is considered by some as the first sign of de-escalation of the hostilities and the visible resultant tensions between India and Pakistan in the last few days.
2 March 2019, 18:00 PM

India, Japan sign $75bn currency swap deal

The Bank of Japan and the Reserve Bank of India signed a Bilateral Swap Arrangement (BSA) with effect from yesterday, which will enable both countries to swap their local currencies against US dollar for up to $75 billion.
28 February 2019, 18:00 PM
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India's new response template against terror

Restraint is no longer an option. Action is. That is the message sent out by the Indian Air Force mounting the lightning attack on terror camps deep inside Pakistan on February 26.
27 February 2019, 18:00 PM
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India's rival coalitions hunt for allies for elections

With parliamentary elections just a couple of months away, the alliance-building exercise by the two major rival camps vying for power
23 February 2019, 18:00 PM
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Modi sees India as $10tr economy with countless startups

With fresh general elections just a couple of months away, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday laid out his vision for making India a $10-trillion economy and the third-largest in the world.
23 February 2019, 18:00 PM
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India's military options to tackle terror after Pulwama

It has been a week since the ghastly terror attack by Jaish-e-Mohammed, a group based in Pakistan, on a convoy of Indian paramilitary troops left 40 people dead in Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir.
21 February 2019, 18:00 PM
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Anil Ambani guilty of contempt of court in RCom-Ericsson case

India's Supreme Court yesterday held billionaire industrialist and Reliance Communication's Chairman Anil Ambani guilty of contempt of court for wilfully violating its order by not paying Rs 550-crore dues to telecom equipment manufacturer Ericsson India.
20 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Terror Attack: Indian trade body calls for shutdown today

A pan-India traders' body has called a nationwide shutdown of business establishments today expressing solidarity with families of security personnel killed in a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir state last Thursday.
17 February 2019, 18:00 PM

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