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PM Dials Sandeshkhali Victim, BJP's Candidate, Calls Her "Shakti Swaroopa"
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called up a sexual harassment victim from Bengal's Sandeshkhali, also the BJP's candidate from Basirhat Lok Sabha seat, and asked about her poll preparations, sources have said.
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BJP Worker Shot Dead In Bengal, Party Says "Trinamool Goons" Behind It
A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker, named Saraswati Das, was allegedly shot dead by miscreants in Basirhat in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district.
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Babul Supriyo Says Vehicles Of His Security Personnel Attacked In Bengal
Union Minister Babul Supriyo on Sunday alleged that his security personnel's vehicles were attacked with stones by Trinamool Congress (TMC) "goons" near West Bengal's Basirhat.
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Basirhat Violence: Court Grants Anticipatory Bail To DU Professor
Delhi University Professor Rakesh Sinha, wanted by Kolkata police for allegedly spreading communal hatred via his Facebook posts on violence in West Bengal's Basirhat, was granted anticipatory bail today by a magisterial court in Kolkata.
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I Covered The Bashirhat Riots. 'They Are Coming,' They Kept Saying
Trouble had erupted in Baduria, just three days before July 4, after a blasphemous social media post about the Prophet by a 17-year-old. The road from Kolkata leading up to Deganga was deserted, shops shuttered, unease in the air.
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Mamata Government Doing 'Appeasement Politics' In West Bengal: BJP
The BJP on Thursday launched its "Save Bengal" campaign from Rajghat in Delhi in the wake of the Basirhat communal riots, and alleged that there was a "constitutional breakdown" in the state due to the "appeasement politics" of the Mamata Banerjee government.
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Delhi BJP Leader Shared Gujarat Riots Photo As From Bengal
Delhi BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma came under fire from Twitter users for allegedly passing off a picture of the 2002 Gujarat riots as that of the violence in West Bengal's Basirhat.
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Bengal Violence: Villagers Say Rioters Came From 'Outside' On Motorcyles
Residents of Magurkhali, Hindus and Muslims, had lived together, peacefully, for as long as they can remember. A communal riot was unheard of in the small village in Bhaduria block of West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district. But late into the night last Sunday, it was rife with murderous rage -- rage that locals say found its way into the hamlet t...
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One Arrested For Sharing Fake Image Of West Bengal Violence
The Kolkata Police has said they have arrested a person for sharing an image from a Bhojpuri film and passing it off as one from West Bengal's North 24 Parganas that has been hit by communal violence leaving at least one dead.
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Fragile Peace Returns To West Bengal's Basirhat, Politics Takes Over:10 Points
As security forces marched through troubled areas of West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district to keep the fragile peace in riot-hit Basirhat, the focus shifted to state capital Kolkata, 100 km away, where Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee launched an offensive against the BJP, blaming it for the violence. Ms Banerjee also announced a judicial inquiry ...
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Hindus In Bengal Worry About Kashmir - Like Impact On Them
"What Bengal thinks/does today, India thinks/does 20 years hence" was the common refrain one used to hear not long ago, but the happenings in the recent years in the state have brought about an altogether different perception which can safely be paraphrased to say that "What Kashmir did to Hindus 20 years ago, West Bengal is doing now."
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Despite Drowning State, Mamata Signals "Don't Send Help"
Trinamool would like the present situation to be presented as a Hindu-Muslim issue. It is not. It's only a matter of a failed state apparatus and assault by criminals with active help from across the border groups with state protection.
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No Entry to BJP's Roopa Ganguly, Left Team In Riot-Hit Basirhat: 10 Facts
Roopa Ganguly and other BJP leaders were today stopped near the Kolkata airport as they attempted to visit Basirhat, where violence erupted again yesterday after a police lathicharge. Teams from the Congress and the Left were asked to turn back too by the police, which has barricaded Basirhat, about 100 km from state capital Kolkata. The opposition...
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Bengal's Basirhat Tense, Trinamool-BJP Supporters Clash On Street
Supporters of West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress clashed with BJP-RSS activists outside a state-run hospital in Kolkata on Thursday after a man allegedly injured in the Basirhat communal violence died in the hospital.
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Fresh Violence In West Bengal's Basirhat After Police Lathicharge, Several Injured: 10 Updates
After about half a day of calm, violence erupted again late on Thursday afternoon in Basirhat, a town 100 km from Kolkata, after the police used batons on angry crowds who alleged that cops were detaining only Hindu youth for the last three days since riots began. The area's legislator Dibyendu Biswas, of the ruling Trinamool Congress was present d...
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PM Dials Sandeshkhali Victim, BJP's Candidate, Calls Her "Shakti Swaroopa"
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called up a sexual harassment victim from Bengal's Sandeshkhali, also the BJP's candidate from Basirhat Lok Sabha seat, and asked about her poll preparations, sources have said.
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BJP Worker Shot Dead In Bengal, Party Says "Trinamool Goons" Behind It
A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker, named Saraswati Das, was allegedly shot dead by miscreants in Basirhat in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district.
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Babul Supriyo Says Vehicles Of His Security Personnel Attacked In Bengal
Union Minister Babul Supriyo on Sunday alleged that his security personnel's vehicles were attacked with stones by Trinamool Congress (TMC) "goons" near West Bengal's Basirhat.
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Basirhat Violence: Court Grants Anticipatory Bail To DU Professor
Delhi University Professor Rakesh Sinha, wanted by Kolkata police for allegedly spreading communal hatred via his Facebook posts on violence in West Bengal's Basirhat, was granted anticipatory bail today by a magisterial court in Kolkata.
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I Covered The Bashirhat Riots. 'They Are Coming,' They Kept Saying
Trouble had erupted in Baduria, just three days before July 4, after a blasphemous social media post about the Prophet by a 17-year-old. The road from Kolkata leading up to Deganga was deserted, shops shuttered, unease in the air.
-
Mamata Government Doing 'Appeasement Politics' In West Bengal: BJP
The BJP on Thursday launched its "Save Bengal" campaign from Rajghat in Delhi in the wake of the Basirhat communal riots, and alleged that there was a "constitutional breakdown" in the state due to the "appeasement politics" of the Mamata Banerjee government.
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Delhi BJP Leader Shared Gujarat Riots Photo As From Bengal
Delhi BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma came under fire from Twitter users for allegedly passing off a picture of the 2002 Gujarat riots as that of the violence in West Bengal's Basirhat.
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Bengal Violence: Villagers Say Rioters Came From 'Outside' On Motorcyles
Residents of Magurkhali, Hindus and Muslims, had lived together, peacefully, for as long as they can remember. A communal riot was unheard of in the small village in Bhaduria block of West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district. But late into the night last Sunday, it was rife with murderous rage -- rage that locals say found its way into the hamlet t...
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One Arrested For Sharing Fake Image Of West Bengal Violence
The Kolkata Police has said they have arrested a person for sharing an image from a Bhojpuri film and passing it off as one from West Bengal's North 24 Parganas that has been hit by communal violence leaving at least one dead.
-
Fragile Peace Returns To West Bengal's Basirhat, Politics Takes Over:10 Points
As security forces marched through troubled areas of West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district to keep the fragile peace in riot-hit Basirhat, the focus shifted to state capital Kolkata, 100 km away, where Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee launched an offensive against the BJP, blaming it for the violence. Ms Banerjee also announced a judicial inquiry ...
-
Hindus In Bengal Worry About Kashmir - Like Impact On Them
"What Bengal thinks/does today, India thinks/does 20 years hence" was the common refrain one used to hear not long ago, but the happenings in the recent years in the state have brought about an altogether different perception which can safely be paraphrased to say that "What Kashmir did to Hindus 20 years ago, West Bengal is doing now."
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Despite Drowning State, Mamata Signals "Don't Send Help"
Trinamool would like the present situation to be presented as a Hindu-Muslim issue. It is not. It's only a matter of a failed state apparatus and assault by criminals with active help from across the border groups with state protection.
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No Entry to BJP's Roopa Ganguly, Left Team In Riot-Hit Basirhat: 10 Facts
Roopa Ganguly and other BJP leaders were today stopped near the Kolkata airport as they attempted to visit Basirhat, where violence erupted again yesterday after a police lathicharge. Teams from the Congress and the Left were asked to turn back too by the police, which has barricaded Basirhat, about 100 km from state capital Kolkata. The opposition...
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Bengal's Basirhat Tense, Trinamool-BJP Supporters Clash On Street
Supporters of West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress clashed with BJP-RSS activists outside a state-run hospital in Kolkata on Thursday after a man allegedly injured in the Basirhat communal violence died in the hospital.
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Fresh Violence In West Bengal's Basirhat After Police Lathicharge, Several Injured: 10 Updates
After about half a day of calm, violence erupted again late on Thursday afternoon in Basirhat, a town 100 km from Kolkata, after the police used batons on angry crowds who alleged that cops were detaining only Hindu youth for the last three days since riots began. The area's legislator Dibyendu Biswas, of the ruling Trinamool Congress was present d...
