Asian Lite News Archive

Category: West Bengal

  • GALLERY: Honey there is a garden in the car !

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    Asian Lite News profiles Dhananjoy Chakraborty. Mr Chakraborty is a eco warrior of emerging Kolkata, thee erstwhile capital of British Raj. A taxi driver by profession, he is in a bid to spread awareness to protect the environment. Instead of preaching, he set an example. He turns his old Ambassador car into a mobile garden. The vehicle has…

  • Belgian varsity honours Tagore with his statue

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    Belgium’s most prestigious and largest university in the city of Leuven, 26 km from Brussels, has honoured India’s world renowned poet, artist and humanist Rabindranath Tagore by erecting his statue in the university premises. The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) presented a sculpture of Tagore to the City of Leuven and India House Leuven.…

  • Trinamool retains Bongaon, Krishnaganj seats

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      West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress  retained the Bongaon Lok Sabha and Krishnaganj assembly seats where by-polls were held last week. The BJP finished second in Krishnaganj, pushing the CPI-M, which heads the opposition Left Front to the third spot. In Bongaon, the CPI-M finished second while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took the third…

  • Amit Shah blames Mamata for Burdwan blast

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      BJP president Amit Shah launched a scathing attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, and asked people to uproot the Trinamool Congress government for jeopardising national security for the sake of vote bank. Addressing a Bharatiya Janata Party rally in Burdwan where an explosion killed two Bangladeshi militants in October last year, Shah…

  • Mamata’s war against media see red

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    By Anurag Dey   “Don’t loiter around or you will be arrested” – a policeman’s warning, usually used against criminals or anti-social elements, was in fact directed towards journalists. The unusual scene of a policeman threatening to arrest reporters for doing what they do best – hunting for news – actually panned out at West Bengal’s…

  • Madan Mitra denied bail

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    West Bengal Transport and Sports Minister Madan Mitra – arrested in the multi-crore rupee Saradha scam – was Friday yet again denied bail and sent to judicial custody till Jan 2 by a court here. Arrested Dec 12 by the CBI for criminal conspiracy, cheating and deriving undue financial benefits, Mitra’s bail plea was rejected…

  • Mamata’s U-turn makes opponents frown

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    By Anurag Dey   West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s volte face on the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) with Bangladesh and her support to it has brightened the hopes of thousands of enclave dwellers and left the opposition parties frowning. The opposition is wondering about the sudden “u-turn” by the Trinamool Congress supremo, whose opposition earlier…

  • OBITUARY: Sitara Devi 1920-2014

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    By Quaid Najmi    In an era when men wore women’s costumes in theatre, dramas, songs and even the fledgling film industry, one young Indian dancer shattered stereotypes. She was Sitara Devi. Born in Kolkata as Dhanalakshmi, and called Dhanno, as she was born on Diwali in 1920, Sitara Devi later became a living legend —…

  • Is Didi Going the Amma way?

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    Anurag Dey says legal battles are Mamata’s Achilles’ heel?  The legal woes of West Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee government seem to be unending. Constantly embroiled in legal battles, it has now been reprimanded by the courts, prompting the opposition to question the existence of rule of law in the state. In a blow to the ruling Trinamool…

  • 1914 Komagata Maru deaths remembered

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     India released a set of special coins of denominations of Rs.100 and Rs.5 launching a year-long centenary commemoration of the 1914 Komagata Maru incident to create awareness about the heroic struggle of Indian migrants against discriminatory immigration laws of Canada. Komagata Maru, a Japanese ship carrying 376 Indians, was not allowed to disembark its passengers…

  • Three held in Bengal over alleged rape & torture

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    Three people, including two women, were arrested Tuesday in West Bengal’s Howrah district after a woman who worked as a maid in their house alleged she was raped and tortured, police said. The incident came to light Sunday after the 32-year-old woman was hospitalised with serious burn injuries. “In her statement, the victim has alleged…

  • Red bastion crumbles in Bengal

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    By Anurag Dey   From being virtually invincible to being rendered an also ran, the year 2014 has been a tale of the withering away of the Communist-led Left Front (LF) in its once impregnable West Bengal bastion. Already facing serious questions about its existence after the Lok Sabha polls, where it won just two of…

  • Amulya Ganguli on Didi’s Decline

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    Amulya Ganguli says it’s now Ma, Mati, Mafia in West Bengal Mamata Banerjee belongs to the dwindling tribe of regional politicians who look upon their profession through a partisan lens, which means that their focus is almost entirely on advancing the prospects of their parties. They have neither the ability nor the inclination to do anything…

  • PICS: Kanyasree Event in Kolkata

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    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with actresses Locket Chatterjee, June Malia, Subhasree Ganguly, Tanusree Chakraborty and others during `Kanyashree`- a programme in Kolkata

  • Mamta targets BJP

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    Targeting the BJP without naming it, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday said some political parties were trying to cause a communal divide in the state and warned that her party will take strong action against those fomenting riots. “There are some political parties which are trying to create a division between Hindus and…

  • Trinamool raps Ratan Tata

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    Ratan Tata going off his head, says West Bengal Industries Minister  Amit Mitra A day after Ratan Tata said he could not see much of industrial activity in West Bengal, state Finance and Industries Minister Amit Mitra hit back, saying the Tata Sons chairman emeritus has “gone off his head”. “He should carry on with his…

  • PICS: Remains of the Raj

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    Senior Justice Ashim Banerjee ,West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and New Governor of West Bengal Keshari Nath Tripathi with his wife (L to R) during Governor’s oath taking ceremony at Raj Bhawan in Kolkata

  • Why West Bengal not in Modi list

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    Biswajit Choudhury writes on the missing of West Bengal representation in the new cabinet  The absence of representation in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet for West Bengal, where the BJP won two seats, was depressing enough to provoke op-eds on the Bengali character. A fascinating study of how regional politics shapes development in India (The Regional…

  • WHAT A GREAT RIDE, GIRL

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    DAILY DOSE BY Bikram Vohra for Asian Lite, the best newspaper for NRIs and the Indian diaspora The Ambassador has come to a standstill. No more production. Officially the end of an era. What a car, what a magnificent history. All you needed was a wet cloth, a piece of sand paper and some string…