4 min readNew DelhiMay 19, 2023 08:24 AM IST
First published on: May 19, 2023 at 08:22 AM IST
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‘I asked my son to get some soil from the garden to use in our mud house. He went out and I heard a loud noise. A part of his face and his hands were blown away. A part of his face and hands were blown away.’
Several children across West Bengal who have been maimed or killed by crude bombs they mistook to be playthings, are caught up in a turf war between the Trinamool Congress and its political rivals.
🔴 In Part-I of our investigation, we track down 24 families in five districts where bomb-making is an enterprise with many clients, but has left in its wake tragedy and death.
🔴Apart from lack of data on the number of children killed, political parties shifting blame and child rights bodies that can’t see eye to eye are some of the key factors that are coming in the way of finding a solution to West Bengal’s bomb menace.
🚨Big Story
👉🏻After the Congress ended a four-day deadlock and chose Siddaramaiah as the next Karnataka chief minister and DK Shivakumar as his solo deputy, state AICC general secretary-in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala said the party leadership was of the view that both the leaders should be given responsibility. Read the full interview here
👉🏻After four days of hectic parleys in the Congress over the Karnataka government formation, it was during breakfast at KC Venugopal’s house that the ice was broken between Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar.
👉🏻Though both the leaders were not fully in agreement with the leadership formula, it was Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, who led the negotiations, and kept the Gandhis- who kept a judicious distance– involved.
📰 From the Front Page
After protracted tensions between Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju and the judiciary, the BJP leader was removed from the post and handed the portfolio of the earth sciences ministry. Rijiju has been replaced by Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and MoS Culture Arjun Ram Meghwal.
A 21-year-old student of Shiv Nadar University was shot dead, allegedly by her classmate who later shot himself, inside the university campus in Greater Noida, police said.
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⏱️And Finally
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Until tomorrow,
Varsha Sriram and Arushi Bhaskar
Top news briefing on May 19, 2023 
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