CM Suvendu Adhikari (file photo) Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday invoked the memory of the Great Calcutta Killings to caution against what he called “appeasement politics,” at an event remembering the violence that broke out in the city on Direct Action Day on Aug 16, 1946.“I bow my head in solemn remembrance of all…
A silent march was taken out from JP Mehta Inter College to the Circuit House under the leadership of Swatantra Dev Singh to pay tribute to those who lost their lives during the Partition Varanasi: Varanasi observed Partition Horrors Remembrance Day on Friday with a series of programmes highlighting the suffering caused by the Partition…
Kerala chief minister V D Satheesan Thiruvananthapuram: Chief minister V D Satheesan has found himself in yet another controversy. Barely a day after facing criticism over his helicopter journey, Satheesan has now come under fire for attending a private lunch hosted by a Muslim League functionary in Ponnani on Saturday even as Kerala grappled with…
Kolkata: Krishnadas Das, a 105-year-old retired policeman who was posted with the Constituent Assembly security in Delhi in 1946-47, can still recall Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s towering presence at the House and his frustration with the efforts to divide the country that eventually prompted his decision to move to Kashmir. The resident of Bolpur on Sunday…
Kolkata: Controversy over the renaming of Park Circus’s Suhrawardy Avenue as Gopal Mukherjee Road intensified on Monday, with CM Suvendu Adhikari indicating that more such renamings could follow, while Trinamool, Congress and Left leaders accused the BJP govt of conflating educationist Hassan Suhrawardy, after whom the road was named, with former undivided Bengal prime minister…
Opposition leader Pinarayi Vijayan Thiruvananthapuram: Opposition leader Pinarayi Vijayan said govt decision to cut tax on low-alcohol liquor is dubious. “It serves commercial interests of liquor companies,” he said.In the budget, a major announcement was reduction in tax on alcohol. Liquor made from spirit currently attracts 251% tax in the state. However, citing “lower strength”,…
A major controversy has erupted in Kerala after Perambra MLA Fatima Thahliya, the first woman legislator from the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), lit a traditional nilavilakku (lamp) during the inauguration of a restaurant in her constituency in Kozhikode district recently. The incident sparked debate within Kerala‘s Muslim socio-political circles over whether Muslims, particularly public…
A portrait of Zanjibar radio announcer Rashad Ahmad Ali In a Colaba gallery, among portraits of slain African revolutionaries painted on khadi from Porbandar, hangs the face of a Zanzibari man for whom Mumbai offered both education and escape.Ahmad Rashad Ali carried no gun, led no army and never became president, yet for a turbulent…
