Monideepa Banerjie

Trinamool Lawmaker's Car Attacked Near Kolkata, Three Killed

India News | Written by Monideepa Banerjie | Friday December 14, 2018

Three people, including a Trinamool Congress (TMC) worker, were killed when armed men threw bombs and opened fire at the vehicle of a TMC legislator at a petrol pump in Joynagar, around 55 km south of Kolkata, on Wednesday evening.

FBI, Facebook To Meet In Kolkata On Tackling Online Child Sex Abuse

India News | Written by Monideepa Banerjie | Thursday December 13, 2018

Shocking figures have been shared by the International Criminal Police Organisation or Interpol on the growing number of online child sexual abuse cases in India: 2.4 million cases reported in 2017, and that could be just the tip of the iceberg.

Congress Poll Wins Thrill Bengal Workers, Spur Anti-Trinamool Taunts

India News | Written by Monideepa Banerjie | Wednesday December 12, 2018

The Congress victory in the Hindi heartland is shaking things up in distant Bengal. At a celebratory rally in Kolkata, an unexpectedly large turnout prompted one Congress leader after the other to attack the ruling Trinamool Congress and its leader, Mamata Banerjee, alleging violence by her cadre against Congress workers in Bengal and attempts to c...

Search At Kolkata's High-Profile Bangur Family Home Over Property Dispute

India News | Written by Monideepa Banerjie | Tuesday December 11, 2018

Sending ripples across Kolkata's Marwari community, the police today entered the home of one of the city's wealthiest families following court orders to seize valuables belonging to the daughter-in-law of the family who walked out of their home in June 2017 after alleging mental torture by her husband and in-laws.

BJP Blames Trinamool For Bengal Party Worker's Murder, Calls For Bandh

India News | Written by Monideepa Banerjie | Tuesday December 11, 2018

A BJP worker was shot dead on Sunday night in West Bengal, about 170 km from Kolkata. Sandip Ghosh, 23, was leaving a meeting of the party around 10 pm when a group of men attacked him and fellow BJP workers with rods and then fired upon them.

Disability Knows No Bounds. Kolkata Couple's Story Of Love, Struggle

Kolkata News | Written by Monideepa Banerjie | Tuesday December 4, 2018

The world celebrated the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Monday. But for a couple in Kolkata, it has been a celebration everyday since June 7 when their adopted daughter came home. The mother, one of India's best know and most vocal disability activists, has cerebral palsy.

Wall Of Fame "Whitewashed" In Kolkata, Artist's Public Art Gone For Good

Kolkata News | Written by Monideepa Banerjie | Tuesday December 4, 2018

Is art only for hanging in elegant drawing rooms? One artist who always said no was Shanu Lahiri, also called Kolkata's "First Lady of Public Art". She gave the city "Poroma" -- a towering idol of a tribal woman that had pride of place at a traffic roundabout on an arterial road. But that was torn down in 2014 by the state.

2 Americans Met Missionary Before He Was Killed By Andaman Tribe: Police

India News | Written by Monideepa Banerjie | Sunday December 2, 2018

Two weeks after American national John Allen Chau was killed by primitive tribes in the Andamans, startling facts are emerging about his visit there. Two American citizens had flown into Port Blair and met Mr Chau between November 6 and 10, egging him on, it is suspected, to go to the North Sentinel island.

Kolkata Mall's Apology After Stinker For Breastfeeding Mom Provokes Anger

Kolkata News | Reported by Monideepa Banerjie, Edited By Divyanshu Dutta Roy | Thursday November 29, 2018

A mall in Kolkata was forced to issue what it called an unconditional apology after its social media team rudely asked a woman to do her "home chores at home" as she complained about the lack of a place to breastfeed her baby, provoking a huge backlash online.

Singur To Kolkata: Farmers March For Industry, Jobs, Farming Fit Land

India News | Written by Monideepa Banerjie | Wednesday November 28, 2018

The CPI(M) has returned to Singur in West Bengal's Hooghly district, a decade after a farmers' protest that had begun here led to the exit of the Left government in the state after 34 years in power.

US Man's Body Should Be Left Alone, As Should The Andaman Tribe: Experts

India News | Reported by Monideepa Banerjie, Edited by Debanish Achom (with inputs from AFP) | Tuesday November 27, 2018

Conservationists have requested the authorities in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to call off the search for the body of an American man, who was killed by the endangered Sentinelese tribe after he trespassed on their island last week. Allen Chau, 26, was killed by arrows fired by the Sentinelese hunter-gatherers last week after he illegally went ...

"Terrorist On Board": Jet Flyer Arrested After Alarm Over Snapchat Photo

India News | Written by Monideepa Banerjie | Monday November 26, 2018

A passenger on a Jet Airways flight from Kolkata to Mumbai this morning was taken off the plane and arrested after he was seen sending a photo of himself with a handkerchief covering half his face on Snapchat with a comment that read, "Terrorist on board, I destroy women's hearts".

Cops Studying Rituals Of Tribe That Killed US Man To Recover His Body

India News | Written by Monideepa Banerjie | Sunday November 25, 2018

The rituals in death over of the primitive Sentinelese tribe may hold the key to getting back the body of American John Allen Chau, killed by the aboriginals on North Sentinel Island near Andaman and Nicobar and buried on the beach.

After US Man's Death, Focus On Controversial Government Order On Andaman

India News | Written by Monideepa Banerjie | Friday November 23, 2018

One of the last things American evangelist John Allen Chau wrote in his journal before being killed at the North Sentinel Island by primitive tribes was, "God sheltered us from the eyes of the Navy and the Coast Guard."

American Paid Fishermen Rs. 25,000 For Fatal Trip To Andamans

India News | Written by Monideepa Banerjie | Thursday November 22, 2018

An American man from Alabama, who was killed by a protected tribe in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands possibly on November 16, had reportedly paid fishermen Rs 25,000 for smuggling him to the island. Efforts to recover his body, supposedly buried by the tribals, have been unsuccessful so far.