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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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Can a religious corridor end India-Pakistan deadlock?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems to have a penchant for springing surprises when it comes to foreign policy, especially with Pakistan.
26 November 2018, 18:00 PM
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An unfolding political drama in Jammu and Kashmir

The militancy-wracked Jammu and Kashmir appears set for a fresh round of elections to the state assembly after Governor Satya Pal Malik dissolved the House on Wednesday night.
24 November 2018, 18:00 PM
India-Maldives Relations

Significance of Modi's visit

Resilience and renewal—these two words at the beginning of the joint statement issued after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's dialogue with Maldivian President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih in Male on November 17 succinctly captured the essence of relations between the two countries that had been under considerable strain in the last three years during the rule of former President Abdullah Yameen.
20 November 2018, 18:00 PM
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NRC back in political focus in Shah-Mamata battle

After a brief hiatus, the issue of the NRC in Assam and “illegal migrants” from Bangladesh seems to have returned to the focus of political discourse in India.
17 November 2018, 18:00 PM
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The Afghan quagmire and India's challenge

India's “non-official” participation in a multilateral conference in Moscow on November 9 on exploring the possibilities of a negotiated settlement of the crisis in terror-torn Afghanistan has set off a flutter in New Delhi.
13 November 2018, 18:00 PM

Flipkart CEO quits amid misconduct probe

Leading Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart Group CEO and Co-founder Binny Bansal resigned yesterday following a probe into an alleged “serious personal misconduct”, said the firm's new parent Walmart.
13 November 2018, 18:00 PM
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BJP's bypoll blues continue

By-elections continue to be the proverbial Achilles' heel for India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. This has been the trend ever since it returned to power in May 2014.
10 November 2018, 18:00 PM
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India's balancing act between faith and democracy

Two temples—one existing in the South and another proposed in the North of India—are being used by India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and other Hindutva outfits to bring to the centre stage of the political discourse a highly emotive issue in the run-up to the coming assembly elections in five states in November and December and the national polls next year.
3 November 2018, 18:00 PM

India signs $75b currency swap agreement with Japan

India and Japan yesterday signed a $75 billion bilateral currency swap agreement that will help bring greater stability in foreign exchange and capital markets in the countries.
29 October 2018, 18:00 PM
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Will Brahmaputra and Barak rivers unite or divide Assam?

Fresh unrest is simmering in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam over Prime Minister Narendra Modi government's move to give citizenship to “persecuted” religious minorities in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
28 October 2018, 18:00 PM
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Meghalaya CM hails decision to allow use of Ctg, Mongla ports

India's Meghalaya state Chief Minister Conrad Sangma yesterday welcomed the decision to open the Chittagong port to facilitate trade with India's Northeastern states, saying it will cut transportation cost and expose their goods to international markets.
27 October 2018, 18:00 PM
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Mountain echoes for India

The recent elections to Bhutan's national assembly produced a victory for the Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT), a left-of-the-centre party led by Dr Lotay Tshering.
24 October 2018, 18:00 PM

India eases norms for Bangladeshi LPG tankers

India has decided to ease norms for allowing Bangladeshi tankers carrying bulk LPG to enter its territory and carry the same to Bishalgarh bottling plant in Tripura state.
23 October 2018, 18:00 PM
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A deportation and India's Rohingya challenge

When India deported seven Rohingyas back to Myanmar on October 4, it brought out certain fresh dimensions to New Delhi's stand on the issue with its legal, ideological and diplomatic ramifications.
17 October 2018, 18:00 PM
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State polls may set the scene for India's national elections

The announcement of poll schedules for legislative assemblies in the five states of Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram and Telangana has plunged India headlong into the season of polls, the biggest festival of democracy.
11 October 2018, 18:00 PM
From Russia with love

From Russia with love

Diversification of options is the name of the diplomatic game. That is the message coming out after India and Russia inked the USD 5 billion agreement for the supply of the formidable S-400 air defence system during President Vladimir Putin's two-day visit to India and his annual summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
7 October 2018, 18:00 PM
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CEPA: A game-changer for Indo-Bangla ties?

Bangladesh and India decided during a meeting between their Commerce Ministers Tofail Ahmed and Suresh Prabhu in Dhaka recently to explore a bilateral Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) which is an important stage in the countries' burgeoning ties.
2 October 2018, 18:00 PM

Fish export to Tripura resumes

Bangladeshi exporters yesterday restarted supplying fish to the traders in Tripura following a 25-day hiatus over “alleged demands for
29 September 2018, 18:00 PM
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Anatomy of “soft Hindutva” of Congress party

Is India's main opposition Congress party treading a path of soft Hindutva policy to counter the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in the coming national elections? Is it the right path to counter another and the more hard-line brand of Hinduvta of its main rival BJP?
28 September 2018, 18:00 PM
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Drama over Indo-Pak meeting

It was a drama-filled 24 hours involving India and Pakistan between the afternoon of September 20 and September 21.
26 September 2018, 18:00 PM

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