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KOLKATA: Not too long ago, BJP-led NDA government at the Centre was vehemently opposed to caste census. But in a dramatic policy reversal, the dispensation led by Narendra Modi has given its nod to it.

BHOPAL: While the Madhya Pradesh Congress is making all out efforts to strengthen party organization, the state government is facing serious financial crisis. The Congress has decided to hold a huge party conclave at Jabalpur. Jabalpur has a history. It was here that during freedom struggle at an annual meet of the party in which Subhash Bose defeated Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya. Mahatma Gandhi said his defeat is my defeat.

Amazing are the ways of the Indian government and the country’s political satraps to deal with frequent Islamist terror attacks on India’s innocent citizens. In the last one month or so, the organized Islamist terror in West Bengal’s Muslim-majority Murshidabad district had led to massive destruction and displacement of over 150 Hindu families. Within weeks of the incident came the attack on scores of innocent tourists at picturesque Pahalgam in the Muslim-dominated state of Kashmir (J&K) in another far corner of the country. The trousers of around 20 victims of the dastardly Pahalgam attack - all males – were reportedly found unzipped or pulled down by the team of officials that carried out the first examination of the 26 lifeless, bullet-riddled bodies, in what is being seen as a confirmation that Islamist terrorists had established the faith of the tourists before killing them. These terrorists are not political militants. They are jihadists, or killers of Kafirs. No words are strong enough to condemn the abominable religion-centric cruelty.

Water can catch fire easily. When it comes to the Indus waters, we are seeing how combustible it could be —at least verbally for now.

There is a growing conflict and temple war in West Bengal surrounding the inauguration of the Jagannath temple in Digha, a significant event that opened on April 30 during the auspicious occasion of Akshaya Tritiya. The Bengal's Jagannath Dham mirrors the renowned Puri Jagannath Temple, and its inauguration by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is a strategic move in her political game.

Jagannath Dham literally means the “Abode of the Lord of the World”. Sri Jagannatha Temple at Puri is called Jagannath Dham, since it is abode of Jagannath, Krishna, who was one of the ten incarnations of Vishnu in Hindu mythology.BJP led government of Odisha has expressed its intention on Sunday, May 4 to send a letter to Bengal government led by another political party TMC requesting her to stop referring the Jagannath Temple at Digha as Jagannath Dham. It has given a new twist to Jagannath Dham controversy. Do Lord Jagannath devotees among non-BJP Hindus need special permission from BJP or their governments permission to build an abode (dham) for Jagannath anywhere else than BJP’s bigotry permits?

Well before RSS could strike at the fundamentals of the INDIA bloc and make it dysfunctional at the block level before the assembly elections in Bihar by the end of 2025,, the INDIA bloc retaliated and stuck hard at the saffron ecosystem at its third coordination committee meeting held in Patna on Sunday by announcing its plan to contest all the 243 assembly seats jointly and intensify grassroots-level engagement ahead of the election to be held in November this year.

'Abir Gulaal' was Indian actress Vaani Kapoor’s film till Pahalgam became a terrorist blockbuster. Paired with Pakistani actor Fawad Khan, Vaani was looking forward to a block-buster release for ‘Abir Gulaal’, but it didn’t play out quite like she thought, indicating that there’s more to India-Pakistan ties than a romantic pairing of Indian and Pakistani actors.

KOLKATA: Anger against and blaming it all on the Union home ministry are conspicuous in the resolution adopted by Meitei organisations on Saturday May 3 to mark the second anniversary of the widespread Manipur ethnic violence that broke out on May 3, 2023on the issue of ST status for the Meiteis who inhabit the Valley in the small state and account for 53 per cent of its population (as per the last census held in 2011).

KOLKATA: It is an open secret that West Bengal unit of BJP is a divided house. Another yawning crack in it is discernible post former state chief Dilip Ghosh's visit to the inauguration ceremony of Jagannath temple in Digha at chief minister Mamata Banerjee's invitation.