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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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Curtain down on 16th Lok Sabha but up on Indian poll script

The coming parliamentary polls hung all over the political circles in the Indian capital on the last day of the final session of the outgoing 16th Lok Sabha on February 13.
15 February 2019, 18:00 PM

India plans to cash in on US-China trade war

India is encouraging its exporters to take advantage of the trade friction between Beijing and Washington, commerce ministry officials
9 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Economic diplomacy top priority: Momen

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen will pursue economic diplomacy that would enable the country to become a middle-income nation
9 February 2019, 18:00 PM
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Indian apex court works truce

In the end, it was left to the Indian Supreme Court to bring down the political temperature which shot up furiously following the confrontation between the Mamata Banerjee government in West
8 February 2019, 18:00 PM
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Modi government's last attempt at wooing voters

The impending parliamentary elections was written large on the final budget of the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in its current five-year tenure.
6 February 2019, 18:00 PM
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Mamata's return to the street

In the run-up to India's parliamentary elections in April-May, a big political drama is being played out in front of Central Kolkata's
4 February 2019, 18:00 PM
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Can hearts meet and hands hold in Indian opposition alliance?

The two biggest talking points about the mega rally of anti-Bharatiya Janata Parties organised by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata on January 19 were
29 January 2019, 18:00 PM
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Priyanka in the Congress poll gambit

The biggest political news in India on January 23 was the formal induction of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in politics and her appointment in the key post of general secretary of the main opposition
25 January 2019, 18:00 PM

India approves $400m currency swap for Saarc nations

India yesterday approved an amendment to a “Framework on Currency Swap Arrangement among Saarc member-countries” to incorporate a “Standby Swap” amounting to $400 million to guard against global economic volatility.
23 January 2019, 18:00 PM
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Alliance signal from ground zero of India's electoral battle

Politics, so goes the old adage, is the art of the possible. More so when it is the election season in India. In the build-up to the parliamentary elections just about
20 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Assam

What does the future hold for Assam?

It seems like “Yesterday Once More” in the political churn in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam. First, it is the National Register of Citizens (NRC) to weed out
13 January 2019, 18:00 PM
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Quota politics in Indian election season

Quota politics has taken the centre stage ahead of fresh parliamentary elections due in April-May of this year. The Lok Sabha, the lower House, and the Rajya Sabha, the upper
11 January 2019, 18:00 PM
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The real on reel, without sugarcoating

It was a balmy summer evening in mid-1970s when I first got to see director Mrinal Sen at a get-together in a club set up by my friends in my locality in a south Kolkata suburb. It was at the height of the Naxalite movement and the subjects of discussion with Mrinal-da, as he was popularly called then, were films and politics.
30 December 2018, 18:00 PM
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Farm loan waivers and political imperatives in India

It is election season in India and it is raining sops for farmers, the most key segment of the electorate, in the form of farm loan waivers running into thousands of crores of Rupees.
28 December 2018, 18:00 PM

Indian bank unions strike to protest merger bid

Operations in India's state-owned banks were hit across the country yesterday by a strike called by unions against the government's proposed move to merge three banks.
26 December 2018, 18:00 PM
India's bid for enhanced regional role

India's bid for enhanced regional role

Indian President Ram Nath Kovind's state visit to Myanmar (December 10-13) stood out among his other overseas forays in more ways than one. It brought out the full range of the strategic dimension of the ties between New Delhi and Naypyidaw that have slowly gathered in content over the years.
24 December 2018, 18:00 PM
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Modi's dilemma: Hindutva or Vikas?

Hardline Hindutva or livelihood issues? Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party is in the throes of an internal debate about which of the two issues should occupy a
19 December 2018, 18:00 PM
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The coming of age of Rahul Gandhi

He three most important takeaways of the Congress Party's victory in assembly elections in the heartland states of India are: (1) it has suddenly opened up the race for power in the parliamentary polls due in the first quarter of the New Year; (2) it has dramaticall
12 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Different corners of Modi's diplomacy

Different corners of Modi's diplomacy

Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended two separate trilateral summit meetings in quick succession on the side-lines of the G20 Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, underlining India's diplomatic efforts to position itself as a key player in the evolving international order, staying away from the pitfalls of strategic alliances caused by rivalry among leading powers.
7 December 2018, 18:00 PM
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Can religion decide Indian citizenship?

The determination of the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to push through the controversial constitution amendment Bill in the coming winter session of parliament
3 December 2018, 18:00 PM

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