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Sep 04, 2021 Outlook Web Desk Roy, who was elected from Kaliaganj on a BJP ticket in the April-May assembly poll in the presence of party secretary general Partha Chatterjee said he was not comfortable in the saffron camp.
Aug 14, 2021 Outlook Web Bureau This is the second time within a week that Mukul Roy says BJP will win by-election in his constituency.
Following Mukul Roy's gaffe, the BJP greeted the comment with euphoria, saying he had "unwittingly spoken the truth". Roy rejoined the party days after winning from Krishnanagar North assembly seat on a BJP ticket
Jul 17, 2021 Outlook Web Bureau The Bengal Assembly Speaker’s office also announced new names of chairmen for the other eight Assembly committees. All of them are TMC MLAs.
Adhikari had recently submitted a 64-page document to the speaker demanding immediate disqualification of Roy
The BJP in West Bengal is protesting the Assembly Speaker’s decision to appoint TMC leader Mukul Roy as the chairmanship of the public accounts committee
Trinamool Congress leader Mukul Roy's wife Krishna Roy passed away following a cardiac arrest in Chennai, early on Tuesday morning.
Mukul Roy had a contingent of about 22-24 armed CRPF commandos who used to move with him every time he travelled in West Bengal.
Meanwhile, former Meghalaya Governor and BJP veteran Tathagata Roy in a series of tweets described Mukul Roy a 'Trojan horse'.
In a political ecosystem where the ‘Ayaram-Gayaram’ culture has flourished over the years despite stringent anti-defection laws, it seems anything but a mistake to switch allegiance.
One of the first tasks the TMC wants Mukul Roy to undertake is to get some of the party deserters who followed him to the BJP back to the TMC.
Mukul Roy had left the TMC over alleged disagreements with the party's top leadership on certain issues, including differences with Abhishek, the nephew of the chief minister.
Mukul Roy had left the TMC over alleged disagreements with the party's top leadership on certain issues, including differences with Abhishek, the nephew of the chief minister.
TMC on Saturday made a series of new organisational appointments during a meeting of the party's state leadership, convened by Mamata Banerjee.
BJP leader Subhrangshu Roy on Friday said that West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee deserves many ‘salutes’ for the way she has handled the pandemic and the situation arising due to cyclone Yaas.
On the day he took oath as an MLA, Roy refused to speak to the media on the Bengal situation, arguing that there are times when one should value silence.
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The selective arrests have political vendetta written all over them, and the BJP - squarely defeated in the state elections - is coming across as a sore loser.
Mamata Banerjee told the CBI officers that the arrests were illegal and that the agency will have to arrest her too.
A farmer sits near his red chillies at a deserted APMC market, during the weekend curfew imposed by the Karnataka government to curb the spread of COVID-19, in Hubballi.
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Delhi Chief Minister & AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal being welcomed by women supporters during his door-to-door campaign ahead of the Goa Assembly elections, in Goa.
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A health worker collects swab sample of a woman for COVID-19 test, amid concerns over rising Omicron cases, in Gurugram.
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Traffic jam on a road at Shalimar Bagh during the weekend curfew imposed by the Delhi government to curb the spread of Covid-19, in New Delhi.
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The Lajpat Nagar market wears a deserted look during the weekend curfew imposed by the Delhi government to curb the spread of Covid-19, in New Delhi.
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He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
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The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
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Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
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Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
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The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.
Dec 28, 2021 Tanvir Aeijaz 
