-The Telegraph Panchayat office-bearer dies after bomb attack, but DGP denies political motive, state government forms SIT; 10 charred bodies recovered in Baktui in Rampurhat; Dhankhar says law and order in Bengal has ‘capsized’ Calcutta: Murder of a Trinamul panchayat office-bearer in a Birbhum village on Monday night sparked an orgy of violence that has claimed the lives of at least 10 more people with seven charred bodies found by the FIRe...
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Bengal: 10, including women and kids, burnt alive after TMC leader's murder
-TheWeek.in Sheikh was killed by crude bombs in Rampurhat In a horrifying incident, at least 10 people ware killed after their houses were set ablaze in Rampurhat area of Birbhum in West Bengal early on Tuesday. The CPI(M) alleged the victim's houses were set ablaze to avenge the killing of Bhadu Sheikh, a TMC panchayat leader, on Monday. Sheikh was killed after crude bombs were hurled at him in Rampurhat. The Times of India...
More »Khabar Lahariya says Oscar-nominated documentary misrepresents its journalistic work -Nandini Ramnath
-Scroll.in The directors of ‘Writing With FIRe’ say that they have highlighted the important work done by the women-run collective. Media organisation Khabar Lahariya, the subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary Writing with FIRe, published a statement on its website on Monday claiming that the film’s inaccurately depicts the rural, women-led collective as having “a particular and consuming focus of reporting on one party”. The documentary is “a story which captures a part of...
More »UGC Draft Framework Would be Disastrous for Research, say Academics -Ravi Kaushal
-Newsclick.in Academics say the new draft framework of UGC does away with the necessity of master’s in arts and sciences and dilutes the undergraduate programme. After much speculations, University Grants Commission (UGC), the regulatory authority for central universities in the country, released its draft curriculum framework for four-year undergraduate programmes and the stakeholders can submit their comments till April 4, 2022. The final framework will be put in place to be taught...
More »Milletary Rule -Prasun Chaudhuri
-The Telegraph The story of a reversal that may yet rescue Indians from being hungry and undernourished I FIRst tasted kodo, a coarse foodgrain, when I was barely seven. It was at the home of our Adivasi domestic help in Piska, a roadside railway station near Lohardaga in what was then southern Bihar. The porridge she cooked with kodo, jaggery and a bit of salt tasted much better than the gruel I...
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