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Sanjeev Sanyal as WhatsApp uncle: Blaming Bengalis and UPSC aspirants
March 30, 2024 7:53 pm
It is a bit rich that one of the principal economists in the government of India is literally victim-blaming the drivers of the much-touted demographic dividend
March 25, 1983, Forty Years Ago: Sarkaria Commission
March 24, 2023 11:45 pm
Non-Congress (I) chief ministers hailed the Prime Minister’s announcement to set up the Sarkaria Commission to review Centre-state relations.
October 15, 1982, Forty Years Ago: Bengal Famine
October 15, 2022 12:16 am
West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu has asked central leaders to allow his government to purchase foodgrain from other states to stave off near-famine conditions arising from a calamitous drought.
July 29, 1982, Forty Years Ago: WB Ministers Resign
July 28, 2022 10:53 pm
Six ministries belonging to the Forward Bloc and the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) resigned from the nine-Left Front ministry in West Bengal over the issue of bifurcation of portfolios held by them.
April 1, 1982, Forty Years Ago: Talks With China
March 31, 2022 10:32 pm
A Chinese delegation would visit India within the next two months to continue the dialogue between the two countries, External Affairs Minister P V Narasimha Rao told the Lok Sabha.
Naveen Patnaik takes oath for fifth time; but he's not India's longest serving chief minister yet
May 30, 2019 3:44 pm
As Naveen Patnaik starts his fifth term as the chief minister of Odisha, we look at the Indian leaders who have served more time at top than the BJD supremo
Forty Years Ago: May 21, 1979
May 21, 2019 2:30 am
Speaking at the chief ministers’ conference in Delhi, Prime Minister Morarji Desai bowed to the states’ plea for a review of the existing rates of additional excise duties levied on textiles, tobacco and sugar in lieu of the sales tax as well as for a review of the grant-in-aid in lieu of the railway passenger tax.
Somnath Chatterjee's body to be donated to Kolkata's SSKM Hospital
August 13, 2018 10:21 pm
In 2010, former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu's body was also donated for medical research to the hospital, as per an oath taken by him on April 4, 2003. His eyes had been harvested soon after his death.
Mamata Banerjee remembers former CM Jyoti Basu on his death anniversary
January 17, 2018 4:27 pm
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee tweeted about former CM Jyoti Basu on his death anniversary. Basu, who was born on July 8, 1914, had led the Marxists to power for five consecutive times in West Bengal.
Forty Years Ago, June 22, 1977: Janata CMs elected
June 22, 2017 12:08 am
While Devi Lal in Haryana, Nilamony Rautray in Orissa and Kailash Chandra Joshi were elected unopposed, leaders in Himachal Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan had to take the secret ballot.
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