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Rs 5,000 A Month, Job Cards: Mamata Banerjee's Scheme For Returning Migrant Labourers
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has announced a scheme for Bengali migrant workers who have been forced to return from other states. The "Shramasree project" will provide them with job cards through a web portal.
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Mamata Banerjee Likely To Skip PM Modi's Kolkata Metro Inauguration On August 22
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to skip the inauguration of three Kolkata metro projects by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 22, a top state government official said on Monday.
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Mamata Banerjee Condemns Alleged Attack On Bengali Migrants In Protest Rally
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday led a massive protest rally in Jhargram, condemning the alleged attacks on Bengali-speaking migrants outside the state.
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Government Deportations Leave Families Of Bengali Migrants In Deep Distress
60-something Bhodu Sheikh sat on the porch of his ramshackle hut in Dorjee Para, a settlement tucked away in one corner of Paikar village in the Muslim-majority Murarai assembly constituency of West Bengal's Birbhum district, with a blank look in his
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Opinion | The 'Real' Bengali: On Migrant Politics In Bengal And Assam
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has exhorted her party members to continue the "movement" against the detention of Bengali-speaking migrant workers in other states. But will that be enough to bring in votes?
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Trinamool On Streets To Protect Infiltrators: PM's Attack On Mamata Banerjee
PM Narendra Modi on Friday tore into the Trinamool Congress, accusing it of risking Bengal's identity and national security by promoting infiltration for vote-bank politics, and asserted that only the BJP genuinely stands for Bengali 'asmita'.
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'Implement CAA If You Care For Bengalis,' Himanta Sarma Dares Mamata Banerjee
Mr Sarma asked the Trinamool Congress leader to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in West Bengal if she 'cares for Bengalis.' The dare was laced with a belief and allegation that Ms Banerjee is only concerned about 'Muslim Bengalis.'
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Mamata Banerjee's March In Rain Over 'Harassment' Of Bengali Migrants
With the Election Commission gearing up for a Special Intensive Revision of voter lists in West Bengal, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has claimed that people whose names are not on the voters' list will be jailed
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Bengal Chief Secretary Alleges "Harassment" Of Bengali Migrants In Odisha
West Bengal Chief Secretary Manoj Pant on Thursday wrote to his Odisha counterpart, urging him to put an end to "harassment" of Bengali-speaking migrant workers in certain parts of the neighbouring state.
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Bengali Man Who Sold His Goats For Tickets Will Finally Fly Home
IndiGo, India's biggest airline, has agreed to help a migrant laborer and two others fly home from Mumbai after an earlier flight he paid for by selling family livestock was canceled.
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19 Lakh Face Uncertain Future As Assam Citizens' List Hits 'Deep Freeze'
Manju Debnath, a migrant and a Bengali Hindu from Nagaon is among the 19 lakh people excluded from the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam. Close to six months after the list was published, the 60-year-old is still anxiously waiting for the notification of the final list.
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Before Citizenship Bill Is Tabled, Uncertainty For Assam Hindu Migrants
Born under the British rule, Sushil Burman was a child when India achieved Independence and then went through a messy partition. In 1956, he and his father fled from Mymensingh in East Pakistan -- now Bangladesh -- for fear of religious persecution.
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"Should We Worry?" Uncertainty After Killing Of Bengali Migrants In Assam
Nearly a week after five people of Bengali origin were killed by unidentified terrorists in Assam's Tinsukia district, the nature of the crime is still under debate.
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Massive Army Ops After Suspected ULFA Terrorists Kill 5 In Assam
At least five people were killed by suspected United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) terrorists in Upper Assam's Tinsukia district on Thursday evening. Reports suggestthe terrorists belonged to the ULFA's Paresh Baruah faction, the ULFA-Independent. But the outfit has denied any role in the attack.
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Rs 5,000 A Month, Job Cards: Mamata Banerjee's Scheme For Returning Migrant Labourers
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has announced a scheme for Bengali migrant workers who have been forced to return from other states. The "Shramasree project" will provide them with job cards through a web portal.
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Mamata Banerjee Likely To Skip PM Modi's Kolkata Metro Inauguration On August 22
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to skip the inauguration of three Kolkata metro projects by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 22, a top state government official said on Monday.
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Mamata Banerjee Condemns Alleged Attack On Bengali Migrants In Protest Rally
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday led a massive protest rally in Jhargram, condemning the alleged attacks on Bengali-speaking migrants outside the state.
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Government Deportations Leave Families Of Bengali Migrants In Deep Distress
60-something Bhodu Sheikh sat on the porch of his ramshackle hut in Dorjee Para, a settlement tucked away in one corner of Paikar village in the Muslim-majority Murarai assembly constituency of West Bengal's Birbhum district, with a blank look in his
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Opinion | The 'Real' Bengali: On Migrant Politics In Bengal And Assam
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has exhorted her party members to continue the "movement" against the detention of Bengali-speaking migrant workers in other states. But will that be enough to bring in votes?
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Trinamool On Streets To Protect Infiltrators: PM's Attack On Mamata Banerjee
PM Narendra Modi on Friday tore into the Trinamool Congress, accusing it of risking Bengal's identity and national security by promoting infiltration for vote-bank politics, and asserted that only the BJP genuinely stands for Bengali 'asmita'.
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'Implement CAA If You Care For Bengalis,' Himanta Sarma Dares Mamata Banerjee
Mr Sarma asked the Trinamool Congress leader to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in West Bengal if she 'cares for Bengalis.' The dare was laced with a belief and allegation that Ms Banerjee is only concerned about 'Muslim Bengalis.'
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Mamata Banerjee's March In Rain Over 'Harassment' Of Bengali Migrants
With the Election Commission gearing up for a Special Intensive Revision of voter lists in West Bengal, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has claimed that people whose names are not on the voters' list will be jailed
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Bengal Chief Secretary Alleges "Harassment" Of Bengali Migrants In Odisha
West Bengal Chief Secretary Manoj Pant on Thursday wrote to his Odisha counterpart, urging him to put an end to "harassment" of Bengali-speaking migrant workers in certain parts of the neighbouring state.
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Bengali Man Who Sold His Goats For Tickets Will Finally Fly Home
IndiGo, India's biggest airline, has agreed to help a migrant laborer and two others fly home from Mumbai after an earlier flight he paid for by selling family livestock was canceled.
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19 Lakh Face Uncertain Future As Assam Citizens' List Hits 'Deep Freeze'
Manju Debnath, a migrant and a Bengali Hindu from Nagaon is among the 19 lakh people excluded from the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam. Close to six months after the list was published, the 60-year-old is still anxiously waiting for the notification of the final list.
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Before Citizenship Bill Is Tabled, Uncertainty For Assam Hindu Migrants
Born under the British rule, Sushil Burman was a child when India achieved Independence and then went through a messy partition. In 1956, he and his father fled from Mymensingh in East Pakistan -- now Bangladesh -- for fear of religious persecution.
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"Should We Worry?" Uncertainty After Killing Of Bengali Migrants In Assam
Nearly a week after five people of Bengali origin were killed by unidentified terrorists in Assam's Tinsukia district, the nature of the crime is still under debate.
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Massive Army Ops After Suspected ULFA Terrorists Kill 5 In Assam
At least five people were killed by suspected United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) terrorists in Upper Assam's Tinsukia district on Thursday evening. Reports suggestthe terrorists belonged to the ULFA's Paresh Baruah faction, the ULFA-Independent. But the outfit has denied any role in the attack.
