One tweet that had many cracking up was: “Dear Mamata, normally the cartoonist tries to capture the subject. Not vice versa.” The allegation was that Professor Ambikesh Mahapatra has used email id of his neighbour Subrata Sengupta (70) to forward an e-mail containing a graphic with a humorous reference to Mamata Banerjee for replacing Dinesh Trivedi with Mukul Roy as Railway Minister. The graphic uses photographs of the three Trinamool...
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Goa communal riots case: 40 acquitted for lack of evidence
-PTI A local court today acquitted 40 accused, including senior BJP leaders, in the first ever communal riots case in the state, which had occurred in the twin towns of Curchorem-Sanvordem in 2006. The sessions court at Margao acquitted 40 accused, including BJP general secretary Satish Dhond and senior leader Sharmad Raiturcar. The accused had been charged with unlawful assembly, mischief and criminal trespass. Riots had erupted after a mob demolished a madrassa...
More »Untouchability under security meet scanner-Nishit Dholabhai
Untouchability hasn’t been banished in all its forms, a meeting of state ministers with the Centre concluded today and expressed anguish at the dismal conviction rate in crimes against Dalits. “Untouchability is gone, but only the face of it, as its definition changes. Banks deny credit to Dalits and this is another form of untouchability,” Union home minister P. Chidambaram said at the specially convened meeting as part of the two-day...
More »RTI activist’s murder: CBI searches house of witness
-Express News Service A team of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted searches at the house of an eyewitness in the murder of RTI activist Satish Shetty. The team conducted seaches the house of Vandana Murhe in Talegaon Dabhade and seized some documents on Monday. Shetty was murdered near a newspaper stall operated by Murhe on January 13, 2010. “Our teams spoke to Murhe and seized some documents from her residence today for...
More »Police ask Facebook to delete morphed Mamata pictures
-The Times of India The state CID has written to Facebook asking it to delete certain morphed images of chief minister Mamata Banerjee after a Trinamool Congress supporter lodged a complaint on April 12, citing specific posts and 'objectionable comments' flooding social networking sites. The CID also wants to know the IP addresses from where the pictures were posted. It is sure to scare netizens after what happened to Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh...
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