India’s Banu Mushtaq wins International Booker Prize; congratulatory messages pour in

India's Banu Mushtaq wins International Booker Prize; congratulatory messages pour in

Follow Us on Google News Bengaluru, May 21 (IANS) Indian writer-lawyer-activist Banu Mushtaq has won the prestigious International Booker prize for the short story anthology, ‘Heart Lamp’. The award was announced at a ceremony held at London’s Tate Modern on Tuesday. Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Steel H.D. Kumaraswamy … Read more

Coded messages in phones of 2 arrested JMB men in Bengal show links with other fundamentalist groups

Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, May 10 (IANS) The West Bengal Police recovered several coded and encrypted messages from the mobile phones of Aazmal Hossain and Saheb Ali Khan, the two Indian associates of Bangladesh-based Islamic fundamentalist group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) who were arrested on Friday from Nalhati in Birbhum district, which hint at … Read more

Amid India-Pak tension, Bengal BJP chief highlights Tagore’s patriotic messages

Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, May 9 (IANS) Amid heightened tensions between India and Pakistan, the BJP’s state president in West Bengal and Union Minister of State, Sukanta Majumdar, on Friday, recollected the patriotic messages in the songs penned by Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore. Speaking to IANS, he said that the members of the three … Read more

Crucial meeting of Bengal Cabinet on May 14 to finalise SOPs to prevent circulation of fake, hate messages

Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, May 8 (IANS) A crucial meeting of the West Bengal Cabinet has been convened on May 14 at the state secretariat Nabanna, reportedly to decide on the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to prevent circulation of fake information and hate messages through social media. This is being done in the … Read more

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