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Pallab Bhattacharya

Pallab Bhattacharya is a special correspondent for The Daily Star.

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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
ISS

"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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Indian scientists discover wound dressing material from banana fibres

Scientists at the Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology (IASST), an autonomous institute under the Department of Science and Technology, have transformed banana pseudo stems, which are often considered agricultural waste, into an eco-friendly wound dressing material.
1 March 2024, 04:57 AM
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Modi announces names of Gaganyaan space mission astronauts

Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, today announced the names of four Indian Air Force officers who will be the astronauts in the country’s first manned mission to space, which is expected to be launched next year.
27 February 2024, 08:33 AM
Foetus

Researchers develop first India-specific AI model to determine age of foetus

Indian researchers have developed a country-specific model to precisely determine the age of a foetus in a pregnant woman in the second and third trimesters.
26 February 2024, 11:51 AM
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India unveils country's largest battery energy storage system

India's largest battery energy storage system, which stores power using solar energy, has been successfully commissioned with an installed capacity of 152.325 megawatts hour (MWh).
26 February 2024, 05:07 AM
On the 2024 farmers’ protest in India

On the 2024 farmers’ protest in India

Thousands of farmers from Punjab and Haryana have taken to the streets again, just over two years after their previous year-long agitation.
18 February 2024, 01:00 AM
Hypersonic

India successfully tests hypersonic testing capability

In a major boost to India's space and defence sectors, the country’s first Hypervelocity Expansion Tunnel Test Facility was successfully established and tested by the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur.
11 February 2024, 08:57 AM
Atom

Indian scientists design new technique to better study absolute zero atoms

Indian scientists have designed a new image-correction technique capable of getting better images during the study of atoms at absolute zero temperature. The technique can get rid of 50% unwanted interference fringes in the images, which are important for understanding the intriguing quantum mechanics governed properties of atoms at cold temperatures better.
6 February 2024, 11:55 AM
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India tables interim budget of Rs 47.66 lakh crore

FY25’s interim budget is 6% higher than the previous year
1 February 2024, 12:06 PM
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India launches environment-friendly in-orbit propulsion system

India has successfully tested an environment-friendly propulsion system demonstrating in-orbit functionality on a microsatellite launched by a rocket, aligning space missions with the environment.
1 February 2024, 10:12 AM
High-velocity air fuel spraying

Indian scientists discover environment-friendly alternative to hard chrome plating

Indian scientists have claimed to have found a new technique of synthesizing thin hard surface coatings by high-velocity air fuel spraying. According to them, this has the potential of an environment-friendly and safer alternative to hard chrome plating used in car parts, tools, and kitchen utensils.
31 January 2024, 09:09 AM
NASA laser

NASA's laser bounces off India's Vikram moon lander

A spacecraft of NASA, orbiting the moon, sent laser beams which successfully bounced off a tiny mirror-based instrument on board the lander that is now on the lunar following India’s landmark moon mission last year.
20 January 2024, 10:46 AM
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ISRO captures supernova in space

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said its maiden X-ray polarimetric mission has captured the energy emanating from the explosion of a star which is called supernova.
13 January 2024, 09:59 AM
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India's national space agency tests futuristic fuel cell power system

A futuristic fuel cell-based power system was successfully tested by India's national space agency. As per ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation), this new power system could help build a proposed space station while holding prospects of wider human applications.
6 January 2024, 05:22 AM
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IFFI Film Bazaar selects Bangladeshi filmmaker’s documentary amongst top 10 films

Bangladeshi director Tasmia Afrin Mou’s mid-length Bengali documentary film, “Amar Nanur Bari” (Where My Grandma Lives), is about the destruction of water bodies in the name of development. It is amongst the ten works chosen for the much-awaited list of Film Bazaar of the 54th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) to be held in Goa from November 20.
13 November 2023, 06:32 AM
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India moves to curb onion exports

It raises minimum export price of onion by four times to $800 a tonne
28 October 2023, 14:27 PM
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Uncertainty lingers over Chhatak Cement’s return to operation

State-run Chhatak Cement Company in Sunamganj might not return to production anytime soon as its modernisation project is set to miss the deadline for the second time while uncertainty over the supply of the key raw material persists.   
21 September 2023, 18:00 PM
India 5g network solution

India develops tech to prevent attacks in 5G networks

Indian scientists have developed an indigenous software technology that can detect and prevent attacks in the 5G telecom networks, as per a recent statement by India's Ministry of Science and Technology.
17 August 2023, 13:50 PM
Does India need a Uniform Civil Code?

Does India need a Uniform Civil Code?

In a way, the BJP’s campaign on the UCC has been in the works for several months now
18 July 2023, 12:00 PM
Run-up to India's 2024 general election

Opposition unity and the challenges ahead in India

Fresh general elections in India are due early next year and the opposition parties seem to have taken a good first step
26 June 2023, 08:30 AM
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Looking back on India’s triple train crash and the safety of rail travel

The triple train accident in Balasore in the eastern Indian state of Odisha on June 2 was considered the worst in three decades involving India’s largest public transport system that ferries nearly eight billion people annually.
16 June 2023, 12:02 PM

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