Cartoon On Mamata Banerjee

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  Kolkata Professor, Who Shared Mamata Banerjee's Cartoon, Acquitted After 10 Years

  Ten years after a criminal case was instituted against a university professor for forwarding a cartoon allegedly aimed at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the Alipur Court in Kolkata on Friday discharged him of the charges.

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  Akhilesh Yadav Shares Amul's "Maskagathbandhan" Post

  In a light-hearted tweet, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav shared Amul's "utterly butterly delicious" take on the mahagathbandhan - a proposed alliance of anti-BJP parties.

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  Mahatma Gandhi's Grandsons Bristle At Amit Shah's 'Chatur Baniya' Remark

  There has been no end to reactions to BJP president's Amit Shah's "chatur baniya" description of Mahatma Gandhi at what the party had called a meeting of "eminent persons" in Chhattisgarh capital Raipur. The Mahatma's grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi on Saturday waded into the ongoing controversy around the remark.

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  Arrested For Mamata Banerjee Cartoons Once, Professor Contesting Election

  Arrested in April 2012 for circulating cartoons lampooning Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on email, Ambikesh Mahapatra is now contesting the Bengal assembly elections against her party as an independent candidate.

• Student shares Mamata Banerjee cartoon on Facebook, but Trinamool Congress plays it down

  A college student in Kolkata is facing a police complaint for sharing cartoons of Mamata Banerjee on his Facebook account. But the West Bengal Chief Minister's party, the Trinamool Congress, appears to have learnt its lessons from a similar episode last year and is showing restraint.

• Complaint filed against student for circulating anti-Mamata cartoon

  A police complaint was filed against a college student in Kolkata today for sharing cartoons of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on his Facebook account.

• Who is Mamata Banerjee?

  There is a new word in town - "Didigiri." Inspired by Mamata Banerjee 2012. In this avatar, the fiery West Bengal Chief Minister is acquiring a reputation for what detractors call extreme intolerance. For many months now Ms Banerjee has been in the news more for controversial moves like the arrest of a protesting scientist or a college professor wh...

• Cartoon row: Mamata loses cool, storms out of live TV session

  West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday lost her cool and stormed out of an interactive TV session in Kolkata when members of audience asked her about the arrest of a professor for forwarding a cartoon lampooning her.

• Another anti-Mamata cartoon, professor files complaint

  An associate professor of Midnapore Medical College filed a fresh complaint on Saturday night against two persons accusing them of circulating a cartoon that denigrates the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. This comes days after Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra was jailed on the charge of sending cartoon criticising Trinam...

• Who is Mamata Banerjee?

  Mamata Banerjee has given birth to a new term this year - "Didigiri." In this avatar, the fiery West Bengal Chief Minister is acquiring a reputation for what detractors call extreme intolerance. In the past few days, Ms Banerjee has been in the news more for controversial moves like the arrest of a protesting scientist or a college professor who sh...

• Now Trinamool tells workers: Don't marry CPM members

  No cartoons on social networking sites, no protests, and now, no marriage to anyone remotely connected to the Communist Party of India (CPM). The Trinamool Congress' list of don'ts just got longer, with West Bengal Food and Supplies Minister Jyotipriya Mallik telling party workers that theirdaughters marrying into CPM homes is not ok, mingling with...

• West Bengal CID asks Facebook to remove pictures mocking Mamata Banerjee

  After the controversial cartoon case, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee now seems to have taken offence to some of her pictures posted on Facebook. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the state has written to the social networking site, asking it to remove four pictures lampooning Ms Banerjee.

• Scientists write to PM condemning action against Bengal biologist

  Leading scientists from India and abroad as well as other public personalities have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, condemning the police action against two West Bengal-based scientists. One of them is Partho Sarathi Ray, a molecular biologist, who is in jail since April 8 and was arrested for his alleged role in protests against recent e...

• Cartoons are integral to democracy, says Dinesh Trivedi

  Reacting to the arrest of a Jadavpur University professor in Kolkata for posting a cartoon of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on the internet, former Railways Minister Dinesh Trivedi today said cartoons are integral to democracy.

• Outrage over professor's arrest for posting anti-Mamata cartoons

  A professor from Jadavpur University has been arrested in Kolkata for posting comic pictures of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and mocking the state government policies on social networking website.