West Bengal

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The Special Intensive Revision’s human impact is immense. For example, government teachers drafted into booth-level officers’ work are not just exhausted, but fear backlash from the public and political parties alike for no fault of theirs. As instances of heckling loom, the irony of it all is that BLOs have little control over policy decisions

As the apex court upholds the Calcutta High Court’s order to resume the rural employment scheme in West Bengal while maintaining the right of the centre to keep probing irregularities, the judiciary has shown that governance cannot mean starvation as retribution. When the centre denies work and wages to the poorest for three years, it violates not just law, but humanity

The Supreme Court has upheld the Calcutta High Court’s verdict terminating the services of nearly 26,000 school teachers. While it is a fact that most of them used unfair means to get their jobs, there still were honest applicants in the mix who now have  become collateral damage

Two horrific murder cases in Kolkata—one a brutal rape-murder in a government hospital, the other a chilling family massacre—expose the stark contrast in police efficiency when freed from political interference. The cases also shine a harsh light on the urgent need for long-overdue police reforms

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The apex court has reacted to a contempt petition that said the state continues to use cruel methods to chase away pachyderms from human settlements that have encroached upon wild land and this was in violation of the Court’s order with the state reneging on its promise 

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In the state’s political landscape, change appears as a façade. For the ruling Trinamool Congress, nothing matters more than power and money 

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