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West Bengal polls: 'Frustrated' Shah conspiring against TMC leaders, claims Mamata; Swapan Dasgupta resigns from RS
Fp Staff • 4 years agoBJP workers from various parts of West Bengal continued their protests outside the party's state election office in Kolkata over the selection of candidates, laying bare the rift between old-timers and new entrants
West Bengal Assembly elections: Swapan Dasgupta resigns from Rajya Sabha amid disqualification row
Fp Staff • 4 years agoThis comes after Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Monday pointed out that Dasgupta is a nominated member of the Upper House and said that he must be disqualified for joining the BJP.
Visva Bharati prohibits all staff from speaking to media on varsity-related matter without prior permission of authorities
• 5 years agoVisva Bharati university said any public statement, which teaching, non-teaching staff wish to air, should be sent to assistant registrar and public relations in-charge Anirban Sircar in writing from now on
Students protest against CAA, NRC outside Victoria Memorial as BJP MP Swapan Dasgupta addresses Kolkata Literary Meet session
• 5 years agoHundreds of Left-wing students descended on the road outside the Victoria Memorial Hall in Kolkata on Wednesday evening, protesting against CAA, NRC and BJP MP Swapan Dasgupta who took part in an event on the grounds of the iconic monument
Slogans on Kashmir in JNU, blackmailing tactics against VC, stalling of academic activities expose Left’s intellectual bullying
Sreemoy Talukdar • 5 years agoThe so-called ‘uprising’ in JNU involved boycotting classes, not allowing faculty members to enter their laboratories, blocking ambulance service for an ailing Dean.
Swapan Dasgupta’s lecture on CAA stalled by SFI protest at Kolkata’s Visva Bharati University, students say won’t allow anyone who ‘promotes hatred’
• 5 years agoBJP MP Swapan Dasgupta, who was scheduled to deliver a lecture on Wednesday at the Visva Bharati University on the Citizenship Amendment Act, faced protests by members of the CPM-backed SFI who also stalled the programme.
Amid Faiz row, BJP's Swapan Dasgupta asks for 'subtitles' for Urdu poetry, gets dunked on by Twitterati
Fp Staff • 5 years agoTwitterati quickly responded to Dasgupta, the author of Awakening Bharat Mata: The Political Beliefs of the Indian Right, who was also a signatory to a recent statement released by 1,100 academicians and research scholars from various universities across India and abroad as well as prominent persons in support of the amended Citizenship Act.
Jadavpur University professor attacked while returning from anti-CAA rally, claims BJP activists beat her for objecting to hate speech
• 5 years agoA Jadavpur University teacher has alleged that she was "roughed up" by a few women activists of the BJP near the varsity campus for protesting against the disparaging remarks made against the institute and a particular community by a saffron camp member
Reserve Bank of India governor Shaktikanta Das calls on Arun Jaitley for courtesy meeting
• 6 years agoDispelling such remours, the government on Sunday said reports on the deteriorating health of Arun Jaitley are false and baseless, and media should stay clear of rumour mongering.
Narendra Modi in Kolkata: Will form government to rid West Bengal of Left, Trinamool's 'goondaraj', says PM
Fp Staff • 6 years agoPM Modi said the situation in communist-ruled Tripura was the same as West Bengal