Dibyendu Mondal, Author at The Sunday Guardian Live

600 out of 8,000 Indian prisoners in foreign jails are languishing in Qatar

Apart from the Gulf countries, a chunk of the Indian prisoners are also lodged in jails in Nepal. NEW DELHI: At a time when eight...

‘Fabricated’ reports: Bengal BJP on Shah-Nadda radar

The fabrication was brought to the notice of the top leadership by BJP’s General Secretary and Bengal in-charge Sunil Bansal. NEW DELHI: The Bengal unit...

Police busts gang that targeted elderly women

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police on Saturday busted the “Irani gang” in the national capital by arresting its mastermind and his accomplice that targeted...

Delhi airport fails to tackle holiday season rush

‘As per estimates, at least 50% of the space inside the terminal building is taken up by retail outlets’. NEW DELHI: The long serpentine queues...

Shah sets 24 in ’24 target for BJP Bengal

NEW DELHI: In a closed-door meeting held with the top leadership of the Bengal BJP, the party’s former national president and Union Home Minister...

Matuas, who fled Pak Army atrocities, seek quick implementation of CAA

Many are happy that they were settled with their families in India; many seek permanent Indian citizenship. NEW DELHI: The 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War which...

Pak Army committed genocide of Bangladeshis in 1971

16 December is remembered in India as Vijay Diwas, when in 1971 Pak Army surrendered to Indian Army, thus leading to Bangla liberation. NEW DELHI:...

Multiple factors for rising heart attacks in young people

NEW DELHI: An increasing number of heart attacks among the younger population in India has raised concern among medical practitioners in India and many...

RBI got 30 plaints a month against credit bureau CIBIL

NEW DELHI: Every month, over 30 complaints are being filed against CIBIL (Credit Information Bureau (India) Limited) with the Reserve Bank of India for...

‘Twitter files’ II expose Gadde-led ‘secret group’ that shadow banned accounts

‘Twitter used Visibility Filtering to block individual user’s searches to limit scope of a particular tweet’s discoverability’. New Delhi: Twitter, under its new ownership of...

AAP returns to the drawing board after bigwigs lose their MCD wards

NEW DELHI: The recently concluded Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections have put the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on notice, as several of its...

AAP’s withdrawal led to Congress win in Himachal

‘The contest, which was earlier thought to be a tripartite contest, turned out to be a bipolar one’. NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP)...

Defeat in MCD polls may trigger churn in Delhi BJP brass

NEW DELHI: The BJP’s electoral defeat in the recently concluded Municipal Corporation of Delhi election is being attributed to multiple factors on the ground...

AAP goes national, ecstatic despite Gujarat loss

AAP, which got over 12% vote share in Gujarat polls, is now officially eligible to be recognised by the EC as a national party. New...

India will address raging global issues during G20 presidency

PM Modi has said that India’s G20 agenda would be inclusive, ambitious, action-oriented and decisive. NEW DELHI: India on Thursday took the reins of the...

‘BJP is committed to implementing CAA’

Shantanu Thakur says the Matuas are with BJP; Centre cannot frame CAA rules as the case is being heard by the Supreme Court. NEW DELHI:...

Twitter files expose ex-top official Vijaya Gadde’s ‘Left’ bias

Gadde, an Indian, then working as head of Twitter’s Legal Policy, Trust, and Safety in the US, used her influence and authority to suppress...

Jain’s massage video may hit AAP’s MCD poll prospects

BJP says Satyendra Jain given five-star resort like facilities inside Tihar jail. NEW DELHI:: A series of videos that has emerged from Tihar jail showing...

BJP will win the MCD polls: Baijayant Panda

Delhi BJP in-charge Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda says the AAP is all about 2% investment for public work and 98% for advertisement. NEW DELHI: In an...

Bengal BJP organisation changes likely by year-end

‘The state unit of the BJP could even see a change in the presidency of the Bengal unit’. NEW DELHI: In view of the Panchayat...

Pak intensifies drone activities along border in Punjab

NEW DELHI: The decades-old concern of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) of focusing on improving counter-infiltration measures in the Jammu and Kashmir region...

‘Private hospitals thrice as expensive as public ones’

‘Private hospitals make a profit of more than 100% in each episode of hospitalisation’. New Delhi: Hospitalisations in the private sector has always been a...

Matuas turn restless as CAA yet to be implemented

‘The community, which voted for BJP in last two Bengal polls, may think otherwise in upcoming Panchayat elections and even during 2024 Lok Sabha...

Under Amit Shah, MHA taking strict action against erring officers

NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah is cracking the whip on delinquent and erring officers, including both gazetted and non-gazetted officers who have...

‘Amid global layoffs, Twitter fires 80% of its employees in India’

‘Twitter has about 300 employees in India, out of whom 250 have been laid off’. New Delhi: The microblogging social media platform Twitter has begun...

Chinese aircraft up for sale, as Nepal Airlines fails to fly them in eight years

High maintenance cost put a massive financial burden on Nepal Airlines, which decided to sell or lease these planes. NEW DELHI: Six Chinese aircraft procured...

‘Farm fires leading to rising air pollution’

Punjab has seen an increase of at least 28% in farm fire incidents NEW DELHI: Raging farm fires in Punjab have contributed to air pollution...

BJP, MHA rubbish speculation on division of Bengal

NEW DELHI: West Bengal’s power corridors are buzzing with talk of a new union territory being carved out of the northern parts of West...

‘Sedentary lifestyle, obesity, high BP reasons for stroke in young people’

Dr Kadam Nagpal says patients with symptoms should be rushed to a facility with neurology or stroke related services. As the world observed the World...

Bengal BJP plans revival ahead of panchayat polls

NEW DELHI: Following the Durga Puja and Diwali celebrations that lasted almost a month in Bengal, the Bengal BJP unit has now tasked all...

BJP forms 21 panels ahead of MCD polls

BJP plans to go to the municipal corporation elections with new faces as candidates to beat the massive anti-incumbency. NEW DELHI: The Delhi unit of...

Bengal being used as base to push terrorists from Bangladesh into India

Many of these infiltrators work as migrant labourers and brainwash the gullible. NEW DELHI: The increasing presence of extremists linked to terrorist organisations in Bangladesh,...

India has rapidly lifted 415 million out of poverty

This is as per the Multidimensional Poverty Index report released by UNDP. NEW DELHI: More than 415 million people have been lifted out of poverty...

EU countries join US in visa war on India

NEW DELHI: A delegation of an Indian wrestling team, which was supposed to play in Spain for the Under-23 Wrestling World Championship was denied...

Consumers’ wait gets longer to avail 5G services

New Delhi: The Indian telecom consumers will have to wait for some more time before they can lay their hands on the 5G technology...

‘TMC leaders involved in Kolkata violence’

Local TMC leaders involved in ‘planning’ and ‘execution’ held a meet in the house of a TMC councillor of Khidirpore area. NEW DELHI: The Mominpur-Ekbalpur...

Delhi forest officials, bank manager in CBI NET

CBI has registered an FIR. An investigation into the case is underway. NEW DELHI: Officials from the Delhi government’s Forest and Wildlife department and a...

US, Tibetans object to Chinese interference in Dalai Lama’s succession plan

NEW DELHI: The United States and China are once again at loggerheads, with a senior US diplomat condemning China’s “sinister” plan to install its...

‘PM Modi may inaugurate Goa’s Mopa airport in two months’

NEW DELHI: The stage is almost set for the inauguration of Goa’s new swanky modern international airport, and authorities, including the state government, are...

Congress’ yatra focuses on 129 South seats, downplays Hindi belt seats

NEW DELHI: The Congress’ 150-day, 3,570-km long Bharat Jodo Yatra, which covers 12 states with 237 Lok Sabha seats, has given a complete miss...

Backlog, semiconductor shortage cause delays in automobile sector

New Delhi: As the festive season in India draws closer, automobile manufacturers in India are gearing up to wade their ways through the semiconductor...

Jammu drone attack ‘under investigation’ even after 15 months

The National Investigation Agency has been given the responsibility to investigate the drone attack. NEW DELHI: Over 15 months have passed since India faced one...

ED nails ex TMC minister Partha Chatterjee’s lies

Agency’s chargesheet shows Chatterjee and his close aide Arpita Mukherjee have assets worth over Rs 100 crore. NEW DELHI": The chargesheet filed by the Enforcement...

Full body scanner trial stopped at Delhi airport

NEW DELHI: The full body scanner trial that began at the Delhi International Airport in June this year has given unsatisfactory results. The security...

Delhi Police spent over Rs 82 crore on publicity in two years

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police has spent more than Rs 82 crore on advertising and publicity in various platforms like print, radio, television and...

Victim of Delhi road rage, couple struggles to register an FIR

The couple has been running around for six days to register an FIR, and alleged that cops are involved with the accused. NEW DELHI: In...

BJP ‘confident’ it is bouncing back in Bengal

NEW DELHI: The BJP’s “Nabanno Chalo Abhiyaan” held last week is being described as a major success by both political parties as well as...

After Kartavya Path, focus shifts to completing new Parliament building

NEW DELHI: As the first phase of the Central Vista project culminated with the opening of the Central Vista Avenue by Prime Minister Narendra...

Amid corruption charges, TMC holds meet to ‘energise’ party workers

NEW DELHI: Amid growing concerns within the Trinamool Congress (TMC) over charges of corruption that many of its leaders are facing, the party held...

BJP’s ‘Nabanno Chalo’ rally to test Bengal waters

BJP will hold the state government accountable for alleged graft in teachers’ recruitment, coal scam and illegal cattle smuggling. NEW DELHI: As part of BJP’s...

Bardhaman-Durgapur poised for a showdown in fourth phase

Transforming policy to convert India into Bharat

Ujjain voters voice discontent with BJP

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