Dibyendu Mondal, Author at The Sunday Guardian Live

18 BJP MPs from Bengal deliver less than 51% seats

Amongst the worst-performing parliamentary constituencies is Hooghly, represented by Locket Chatterjee where the party was not able to win a single seat. New Delhi: In...

Thuggery with life-saving essentials adds to Covid patients’ woes

New Delhi: At a time when the Covid-19 pandemic is raging across certain parts of India, thuggery involving Covid-19 essentials including lifesaving oxygen cylinders,...

BJP fought Bengal polls with full might

New Delhi: The top leadership of the BJP addressed over 100 rallies in West Bengal which just concluded its month-long elections on Thursday and...

Rs 27,000 for 37 km, ambulance services fleecing patients in Delhi-NCR

New Delhi: As Delhi battles with the sturdy second wave of the Covid-19, myriad ambulance services are fleecing people who require their services to...

Delhi healthcare system gasps for breath

The Delhi government app is giving old information about bed availability, say hospitals. New Delhi: As India wades through the interminable surge in the Covid-19...

Delhi grapples with fresh Covid-19 wave

Delhi has reported around 24,000 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said. New Delhi: Just when the Delhi government,...

Search intensifies for BJP’s Bengal CM face

‘If Suvendu Adhikari beats Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram, he will be a big contender for the CM post’. New Delhi: With the fifth phase of...

‘Hope parties using Tagore’s name live up to his ideals’

Great-great grandson of Tagore’s elder brother Satyendranath Tagore, says Rabindranath Tagore stood for secularism and humanism. New Delhi: At a time when different political parties...

RSS work helps build BJP momentum in Bengal polls

RSS has over a lakh full-time pracharaks working relentlessly for the last five years. New Delhi: Much of the momentum the BJP has been able...

SII seeks government funds to scale up vaccine production

New Delhi: Increasing Covid-19 cases and the growing demand of vaccines across the country have led to a shortfall of vaccines in India. At...

One political party worker is killed every two days in Bengal

In 34 days, 16 people from either the BJP or the Trinamool Congress have been ‘killed’ allegedly by the other party. New Delhi: Nearly one...

Graft, cut-money, tolabazi are big issues in Bengal polls

New Delhi: “Corruption”, “cut-money” and “tolabazi” have become the major issues in Bengal elections and may dampen the prospects of the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool...

Mamata TMC’s biggest asset, graft charges unproven: Saugata Roy

TMC’s Roy alleges BJP’s manipulation of the EC, and its use of money and muscle power are worrying issues. New Delhi: Known to be very...

‘Qualified’ candidates may play key role if BJP forms government in Bengal

One of the candidates is Lt Gen Subrata Saha (Retd), former Deputy Chief of Army Staff. New Delhi: As the elections to the 294 Assembly...

EC transfers 12 IPS, IAS officers in a month

The transfers in West Bengal have been made to ‘ensure free and fair polls’. New Delhi: At least 12 senior IPS and IAS officers of...

Gandhis give the miss to Bengal poll campaign

Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Vadra have been on a full-blown campaign in Kerala, Assam. New Delhi: Even as the first phase of polling came to a...

Labourer’s wife, domestic help are BJP candidates in Bengal

New Delhi: With just Rs 6,335 in her bank account and Rs 25,650 cash in hand, and without any movable or immovable assets, meet...

Mamata takes to ‘soft Hindutva’ to shed image of minority appeaser

New Delhi: In a bid to curtail the image of Mamata Banerjee’s appeasement politics, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and its political mentor I-PAC have...

At least 32 TMC defectors find place on BJP’s candidates’ list

New Delhi: The BJP so far has declared its list of 283 candidates for the upcoming West Bengal elections, out of which at least...

BJP manifesto to focus on women’s empowerment, jobs

The Sunday Guardian has exclusive information about BJP’s Bengal manifesto. New Delhi: Industry, employment, healthcare, women’s safety and empowerment, agricultural loan waiver, Citizenship Amendment Act...

Not just Nandigram, Mamata may contest from a safe second seat

New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief, Mamata Banerjee is likely to contest from a second seat, top party sources...

I-PAC’s Bengal Facebook ad spend far exceeds that of BJP

However, BJP has the highest number of ads running on Facebook in West Bengal. New Delhi: With just weeks left for the Assembly elections to...

BJP leaders to visit homes of 129 killed workers

New Delhi: As part of the electoral campaign ahead of the crucial 2021 Assembly elections in Bengal, the top ranks of the BJP’s central...

‘confident that TMC will be saaf from Bengal on 2 May’

Dilip Ghosh says BJP will make Bengal nation’s most secure state. New Delhi: The BJP has emerged as the top contender against the Mamata Banerjee-led...

Questions over EC ‘sitting on’ poll code breach plaints

22 months since 2019 general elections results were announced, no action still on 40% of complaints. New Delhi: More than 40% of the total complaints...

‘Draft policy deals with disruptive technologies’

‘Proposed STI policy will provide incentives to the private sector to invest in R&D’. The government has brought in a draft policy for Science, Technology...

Parties go all-out to woo film stars for Bengal battle

28 famous Tollywood faces have joined either the TMC or BJP in the last two months. New Delhi: In the run-up to the 2021 Assembly...

Sans Opposition CM face, it’s ‘Mamata vs Who?’ in Bengal

BJP may go without a CM face to arrest any infighting that may arise on declaring one. New Delhi: As the election to the crucial...

BJP will hold key meeting of office bearers ahead of state polls

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party will hold a crucial meeting of all its national office bearers and state presidents in New Delhi on...

In Bengal, ruling TMC set to pay a heavy price for infighting

‘The block and district leaders are at loggerheads with each other and all because of cut money.’ New Delhi: Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders are deeply worried...

Shah tells Bengal BJP leaders to go door to door

New Delhi: In a closed-door meeting held on Thursday late night by Union Home Minister and former BJP national president Amit Shah in Kolkata...

Indian nasal vaccine will be a game-changer against Covid

Intranasal vaccine BBV154 is being developed by the Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech. New Delhi: Indian vaccine developer Bharat Biotech is working towards developing a nasal vaccine against...

Matuas happy with Shah’s commitment on CAA

Amit Shah has said that the Citizenship Amendment Act will be implemented once Covid vaccination is completed in India. New Delhi: A large section of...

BJP ready with high-voltage campaign for Bengal

New Delhi: With less than a month to go before the West Bengal Assembly elections are announced, the Bharatiya Janata Party is going all...

Matuas wait to hear Amit Shah on CAA

Home Minister Shah is likely to visit Thakurnagar on 11 February. New Delhi: The Matua community of West Bengal, which has a sway in about...

Faction-ridden Bengal unit of BJP sending misleading reports to Delhi

‘Some of the state BJP leaders have been doing this for years—sending misleading reports to show that they are working very hard for the...

Mamata inducted cop who ‘fired’ in Nandigram

Satyajit Bandyopadhyay is considered to be the cop at the centre of the Nandigram ‘killings’ in 2007. New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee...

BJP poll panel zeroes in on key issues in Bengal

Unemployment, non-industrialisation, graft and poor healthcare are the main issues. New Delhi: The election manifesto committee of the BJP that has been silently working among...

TMC leaders ‘corrupt’; if Sourav joins politics he may join BJP: Baishali Dalmiya

New Delhi: Baishali Dalmiya, the Trinamool Congress MLA from Bally constituency in West Bengal’s Howrah district—and the daughter of the late Jagmohan Dalimiya—has lashed...

CPM, Congress don’t want alliance with TMC

TMC’s Sougato Roy had said the CPM and Congress should back TMC and Mamata Banerjee if they wanted to defeat BJP. New Delhi: The much...

Matuas await Amit Shah’s visit to Bengal

All eyes will be on what Union Home Minister Shah says on the Citizenship Amendment Act. New Delhi: The political fate of the BJP in...

BJP goes all out to woo Matuas

New Delhi: Just months before the West Bengal Assembly elections, the BJP is once again going all out to woo the Matua community in...

Bengal polls likely to be held in seven phases

May see more booths, strong vigilance, given the pandemic and violence in the state. New Delhi: The West Bengal Assembly election is likely to be...

23 Indian sailors returning home, 18 still stuck

New Delhi: Out of the 41 Indian sailors stuck aboard two ships which have been stranded off the coast in China for over seven...

Indian vaccines against Covid-19 cheapest in the world

New Delhi: As the Centre prepares to begin the vaccination process against the deadly Covid-19 virus from mid-January, two Indian vaccine candidates which have...

Ailing Air India may get a new owner soon

New Delhi: Ailing national carrier Air India is on its way to find a new owner soon with the final bids being closed on...

‘Bengal’s Swasth Sathi scheme unrealistic’

‘If private hospitals are forced to take in patients at low costs under the scheme, many will have to shut shop’. New Delhi: Several private...

India spends just 1.26% of GDP on public healthcare

New Delhi: India is among the countries having the lowest public healthcare budget in the world, with the public healthcare system in the country...

Matuas want CAA rules to be framed soon

A large section of the politically influential Matua community leaders is upset over the non-implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) despite it being...

BENGAL BJP IRKED BY FLOOD OF TMC LEADERS JOINING PARTY

‘TMC leaders are coming to the BJP to enjoy their continued power if TMC loses’.

Jharkhand witnesses strong voter turnout in final phase

Ricky Kej hopes to win a Grammy for solo album ‘Break of Dawn’

Delhi Court seeks police response on Bibhav Kumar’s petition

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