The Statesman Kolkata - May 21, 2025

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May 21, 2025

Intelligence Bureau chief gets one-year service extension

Intelligence Bureau (IB) Director Tapan Kumar Deka's tenure has been extended by one more year, an official order said.

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Fourteen years on: Mamata Banerjee's historic 2011 victory still resonates

On this day in 2011, Mamata Banerjee was sworn in as the Chief Minister of West Bengal, bringing to an end 34 years of uninterrupted Left Front rule led by the CPI(M).

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Modi backs WHO Pandemic Treaty, urges global unity

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing the 78th World Health Assembly in Geneva via videoconference, underscored the importance of global cooperation under the theme \"One World for Health\".

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Operation Sindoor row: BJP calls Cong's claim as 'Pak propaganda'

The BJP and the Congress traded fresh barbs on Tuesday after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi accused External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar of warning Pakistan ahead of Operation Sindoor—an allegation the BJP dismissed as \"the language of Pakistan\".

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Mamata Banerjee Slams BJP for Insulting Bengal

CM also stated that she honours both the nation's soil and the Army that defends it

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Op Sindoor: Misri briefs parliamentary delegations ahead of diplomatic outreach

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on Tuesday briefed three of the seven multi-party delegations on Pakistan's long-standing sponsorship of terrorism in India and emphasized the country's firm resolve to respond decisively to any terror incidents on its soil.

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Awareness Programme Highlights Risks of Smartphone Use

An awareness programme was organised by the Bharat Sevashram Sangha's child development centre in Dhulagarh to inform expectant mothers about the potential adverse effects of excessive smartphone use on the developing nervous system of babies in the womb.

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Mamata Launches Projects Worth ₹440 Cr in North Bengal

Banerjee cited development work to counter opposition criticism and affirm the government's commitment to Bengal

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Entally robbery: Police recover additional ₹32 lakh

West Bengal Police have recovered an additional Rs 32 lakh in connection with the recent robbery in Entally, Kolkata, officials said on Monday.

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School job case: HC refuses to vacate stay on supernumerary jobs

The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday refused to vacate the stay imposed earlier by its single-judge bench on recruitments for supernumerary posts in the upper-primary sections in state-run schools of West Bengal.

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Op Sindoor: Trinamul Nominates Abhishek for Multi-Party Delegations

TMC replaced Yusuf Pathan with Abhishek Banerjee as its representative in the Operation Sindoor delegation, citing lack of consultation by the Centre

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Storytelling session on Tagore

A Nobel laureate, poet, philosopher, and visionary, Tagore was also a master storyteller.

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Banglar Bari, Bangla Shasya Bima scheme benefits reaching people: Mamata

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee officially launched the disbursement of the second installment of Rs 60,000 under the Banglar Bari scheme.

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Transporters cry for 72-hr strike across state

Commuters' woes in Kolkata and other districts are seemingly far from getting over.

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PM to inaugurate Joychandi Pahar station

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate 103 Amrit Bharat stations (through videoconference) including Joychandi Pahar station of West Bengal on Thursday.

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Private cabins offering corporate healthcare to open at SSKM by July

SSKM Hospital is set to launch a ₹55-crore, 10-storey private facility by July, offering corporate-style healthcare with 168 cabins overlooking Victoria Memorial

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Bengal Bloggers in Friend List of Jyoti Malhotra Under Lens

West Bengal's travel bloggers, whose names surfaced in the friend list of Jyoti Malhotra, a Haryana-based YouTuber arrested on espionage charges, were now under the scanner of the intelligence agency.

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Six dead in collision between bus and car in Nadia

At least six people were killed and one critically injured in a tragic road accident early Tuesday morning when a Maruti van collided head-on with a passenger bus on the Krishnagar-Karimpur highway in Nadia district.

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Bengal's DA Crisis: Mamata Banerjee Blames Centre for 'Freezing' Central Funds

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Tuesday, indirectly blamed the Union government for the forthcoming and imminent pressure on the state exchequer following a Supreme Court order last week directing the state government to immediately pay 25 per cent of the dearness allowance (DA) dues to the state government.

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Crackdown on drug racket in Gujarat, one arrested

In an operation against narcotics trafficking, the State Monitoring Cell (SMC) of the Gujarat Police carried out a well-coordinated raid targeting an illegal drug operation in the state's Sabarkantha district.

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SC told: Waqf law discriminates against Muslims, strikes at secular fabric

The Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 came under sharp scrutiny on Tuesday, as the Supreme Court was told that the law singles out the Muslim community, imposes discriminatory burdens on Islamic endowments, and strikes at the core of the secular constitutional framework.

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MP Govt Sets Up 3-Member SIT to Probe Vijay Shah's Derogatory Remarks

Madhya Pradesh DGP Kailash Makwana on Tuesday constituted a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) on the directives of the Supreme Court, to probe state Tribal Affairs Minister Vijay Shah's derogatory comments at Colonel Sofiya Quereshi.

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J'khand liquor scam: Senior IAS officer Vinay Kumar Choubey arrested

Jharkhand's senior IAS officer and current principal secretary of the Panchayati Raj Department, Vinay Kumar Choubey, was arrested on Tuesday by the state anti-corruption bureau (ACB) in connection with the high-profile liquor scam.

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Tejashwi writes to Amit Shah seeking equal honour, benefits for paramilitary forces

Leader of Opposition in Bihar Assembly, Tejashwi Yadav, has written a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, urging the Central Government for equal respect, recognition, and facilities to paramilitary forces, akin to those extended to the Indian Armed Forces.

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NCP's Chhagan Bhujbal Takes Oath as Maha Cabinet Minister

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar-led NCP's OBC face Chhagan Bhujbal took oath as a cabinet minister without portfolio in the BJP-led Mahayuti-NDA government on Tuesday morning at the Raj Bhavan.

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Jaishankar Lauds Netherlands' Firm Stand Against Terrorism

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday thanked the Netherlands for its resolute stand against terrorism in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack.

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District collectorates in 6 Raj districts get threat mails

A bomb threat was received at the district collectorate in Sikar, Tonk and Dausa districts of Rajasthan on Tuesday following which a team of bomb trekkers and disposal squad, sniffer dogs and the cyber crime cell inspected the venues.

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PM Modi to Launch Projects, Address Rally in Rajasthan

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a day-long visit on Thursday to Deshnoke town in Rajasthan's Bikaner district, a township in the Indo-Pak border region of the state.

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J'khand: BJP accuses Congress, JMM of 'crocodile tears' over Sarna code demand

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the Congress and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), accusing the ruling alliance of political duplicity over the demand for a separate Sarna religious code for tribal communities.

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Heavy rains batter Bengaluru for second consecutive day

Bengaluru received heavy rain consecutively on Tuesday, too.

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Nuke architect & former AEC chairman MR Srinivasan passes away

One of the principal architects of the country's Civil Nuclear Programme and institution builder Dr MR Srinivasan passed away on Tuesday at Udhagamandalam (Ooty) in the Nilgiris, his family has said.

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Telangana Forms Probe Committee for Hyderabad Fire

Telangana government has formed a six-member high-level committee to probe the deadly fire incident near Gulzar Houz in the Old City area of Hyderabad, which claimed 17 lives, including eight children.

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As Pinarayi Vijayan's Govt Enters Fifth Year in Power, Left Banks on Stability, UDF Aims for a Comeback

As the second Left Front government under Pinarayi Vijayan is completing four years in office today (20 May) and enters its fifth year, the Left Front sets its goal to get a third term in power.

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Indian Navy to induct stitched ship inspired by Ajanta Cave painting at Karwar naval base

A ceremonial event is being organised by the Indian Navy for the induction and naming ceremony of the recreated ancient stitched ship at Naval base in Karwar, Karnataka.

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'K'taka to be first state where everyone has land records'

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi declared on Tuesday that his party wants Karnataka to be the first state in the country where every landowner has official records.

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Jyoti Malhotra visited Kerala, filmed Cochin shipyard

Jyoti Malhotra, the YouTuber who has been arrested for spying for Pakistan, is said to have visited Kerala three months ago and captured footages of high-security areas, including the strategically-crucial Cochin Shipyard.

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Kaleshwaram Inquiry Commission Summons BRS Supremo KCR

The Commission of Inquiry on Kaleshwaram has issued a notice to former chief minister and BRS supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao to appear before it on 5 June.

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5 killed in rockslide at TN quarry

Minister K.R. Periakaruppan visited the accident site on Tuesday and reviewed the ongoing operations

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'Op Sindoor's impact on border residents in J&K can't be ignored'

War is not a solution, and those advocating war should come and live in the border areas: Mehbooba Mufti

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'Five-party linkage' should be more intensive to boost agriculture

In the context of deeper economic international integration, linkage in agriculture production is irreversible.

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Times of Destruction

As the International Museum Day was commemorated on 18 May, and with the World Heritage Day just gone by, what comes to the fore are enlightened issues of cultural heritage, challenges of preservation and conservation, of institutions and individuals becoming custodians of global heritage and hanging on to every shard of pottery, every scrap of papyrus, prehistoric rock excavated, and building bridges across historical time and geographical space

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Much to learn from the Arctic Council

The world is getting hotter and hotter.

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India Needs Green, and Not Red, AI

Artificial Intelligence is evolving into a powerful technology.

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Very productive exchange, says Putin on talks with Trump

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday described his two-hour-long phone conversation with former US President Donald Trump as \"substantive\" and \"productive,\" raising fresh hopes for a potential breakthrough in the prolonged Russia-Ukraine conflict.

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Baloch human rights body blasts Pakistan govt for Pashtun 'genocide' in Waziristan

The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), a human rights body of Balochistan, on Tuesday strongly condemned Pashtun \"genocide\" by the Pakistan government in Waziristan, highlighting the drone attacks on civilian homes and the brutal massacre of children.

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New EU, UK sanctions target Russia's shadow fleet of tankers illicitly transporting oil

The European Union on Tuesday agreed to impose fresh sanctions on Russia, notably targeting almost 200 ships from the shadow fleet illicitly transporting oil to skirt Western restrictions put in place over Moscow's war in Ukraine.

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Bangladesh: Yunus administration gives green signal to another Pakistani airline to operate from Dhaka

In yet another significant development highlighting the growing bonhomie between the two countries, the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) has granted permission to another private Pakistani airline, Air Sial, to operate direct flights between Dhaka and Karachi.

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Strikes on Gaza Kill at Least 60 People, as Criticism Against Israel Mounts

Many Israelis have criticised Netanyahu for his apparent political motives to continue the war

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UN Calls for Scaling Up Supplies as Five Aid Trucks Allowed into Gaza

Five UN aid trucks entered war-torn Gaza, a unit under Israel's Defence Ministry said, a day after Israel agreed to lift over two months of blockade and allow limited relief into the enclave—a step the UN considered far from adequate to meet dire humanitarian needs in Gaza.

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Delays in regulatory approvals can disrupt business timelines: Nirmala Sitharaman

Delays in regulatory approvals can create uncertainty, disrupt business timelines, and reduce the value of commercial transactions, cautioned Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday.

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Hindalco Q4 FY25 net profit up 66 pc at ₹5,284 cr as revenue rises by 16 pc

Aditya Birla Group-owned Hindalco Industries has officially announced that it has reported a 66 per cent rise in consolidated net profit for the quarter ending March 2025, at Rs 5,284 crore, driven by strong performance in its domestic Indian business.

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Only 7 pc of Indian heirs feel obligated to join family businesses: HSBC study

Despite most Indian business owners expressing strong trust in their children's ability to manage family wealth, only 7 per cent of Indian heirs feel obligated to take over the family business, a new report said on Tuesday.

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Power Min Manohar Lal: Energy security most pressing current challenge

Union Minister of Power and Housing & Urban Affairs, Manohar Lal, who led the Indian Delegation for the BRICS Energy Ministers' Meeting hosted in Brasília on May 19 under Brazil's Presidency, highlighted energy security as one of the most pressing current challenges.

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Eight Core Industries Record 0.5 Per Cent Growth in April

The combined index of eight core industries increased by 0.5 per cent in April 2025 as compared to the same month of the previous year, according to data released by the Commerce and Industry Ministry on Tuesday.

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Indian Ports to Benefit From Companies Moving Manufacturing Units Outside China: Moody's

The global ratings agency, Moody's Ratings, in its new report, highlighted that companies trying to set up manufacturing facilities outside of China could have significant upside for Indian ports as well.

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Markets Tumble as Sensex, Nifty Drop 1 Percent

Sensex fell 873 points (1.06 per cent) to 81,186 and Nifty dropped 261 points (1.05 per cent) to 24,683 amid rising COVID-19 cases in South-east Asia

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UP government to revamp religious routes with ₹4,560 crore investment

Uttar Pradesh, globally recognised for its rich cultural and spiritual heritage, is embarking on a major initiative to enhance religious tourism in the state.

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Condition of UP govt schools pathetic, says Mayawati

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Tuesday expressed grave concern over the deteriorating condition of government-run primary schools in Uttar Pradesh, calling the situation \"very pathetic\".

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Coming soon: UP's First State Institute of Hotel Management in Gorakhpur by September

In recent years, Gorakhpur has witnessed rapid growth in the tourism and hospitality sector, with the entry of several renowned hotel and restaurant brands and many more in the pipeline.

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Uttar Pradesh government launches 'ITI Chalo Abhiyan' to boost youth skills and employment

In a bid to enhance skill development and expand employment opportunities for young people, the Uttar Pradesh Government has launched the \"ITI Chalo Abhiyan\".

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Manipur militant crackdown: Security forces arrest 29, recover arms and ammunition

In a series of joint operations, the Army, in coordination with other forces, including police, has arrested 29 militants of different proscribed outfits and recovered 28 weapons, huge quantities of ammunition and explosives from different districts of Manipur, officials said on Tuesday.

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Tripura Mountaineer Aritra Roy Conquers Mount Everest

In an incredible feat that has etched his name in the annals of mountaineering history, Aritra Roy, a certified mountaineer from Tripura, has become the first individual from the state to conquer Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, officials said here on Tuesday.

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Kasganj Police Lines to Redefine Policing Standards: UP CM Yogi

UP CM described it as a step toward empowering the police forcea and strengthening internal security

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The mantras of geostrategic communication in a hyperconnected world

As we move into the second quarter of the year, the global media and communication landscape is undergoing profound changes, disruptions with innovations and unprecedented change in the use of technology.

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Cutting-edge 4D-flow MRI could revolutionise diagnosis of aortic stenosis

Cutting-edge MRI technology can diagnose a common heart problem more quickly and accurately than ever before.

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Khelo India Beach Games: Exciting times ahead as kabaddi moves from mat to sand

Beach kabaddi is looking to leave a long-lasting impression when the popular indigenous sport moves from the mat to the stand for an exciting debut in the Khelo India Beach Games 2025 in Diu.

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Independiente, San Lorenzo Reach Semis in Argentine Title Race

A second-half strike by Colombian defender Alvaro Angulo fired Independiente to a 1-0 away victory over Boca Juniors in the quarterfinals of Argentina's Primera Division Apertura tournament on Tuesday (IST).

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Former Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina announces his retirement

Former Spanish and Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina has announced his retirement from professional football.

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Why PM Modi was not there in our era: Olympic medalist Malleswari shares what changed after 2014

India's first female Olympic medalist, Karnam Malleswari, was left ecstatic and overjoyed when Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid a visit to her sports academy in Haryana's Yamunanagar, and conveyed his best wishes and support in the grooming of aspiring sportspersons at her training institute.

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Europa League: It's all or nothing for Manchester United, Tottenham

Having endured disappointing campaigns, both clubs get a chance to salvage their respective seasons

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Brighton Beat EPL Champions Liverpool to Boost European Hopes

Substitute Jack Hinshelwood scored with his first touch of the ball and gave Brighton a thrilling 3-2 win over Liverpool on Monday and kept alive their slim chance of European football.

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KIBG Reflect Transformative Power of Sports, New Chapter Added, Says PM Modi

Highlighting the 'transformative force' of sports and how the Khelo India Beach Games were a watershed moment in the sporting history of the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the Beach Games promise to make waves in India's sporting calendar.

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Royals thrash CSK in battle of no-hopers to end disappointing campaign on a high

Rajasthan Royals dominated with both bat and ball to outplay Chennai Super Kings by six wickets in a one-sided Indian Premier League clash at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Tuesday.

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Mullanpur, Ahmedabad to host IPL 2025 playoffs, announces BCCI

The BCCI on Tuesday announced the schedule of the IPL 2025 playoffs, naming Mullanpur and Ahmedabad as the two venues.

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