The river, Rio Uruguay, passes through the northern town of Salto and ultimately flows out south into the Rio de la Plata basin, on the coast of which Buenos Aires stands. It took a distance,.
Covid Welcomes CBI Action in West Bengal May 17, 2021, 9:23 PM IST
Indrajit Hazra is Editor Views, Economic Times. His attempt to comment on everything under the sun has made him a social menace in certain social media circles.
In an extraordinary nod to its innate sense of justice, the coronavirus suspended its untargeted attack on Kolkata on Monday. Responding to CBI’s arrest of TMC ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee, and MLAs and former ministers Madan Mitra and Sovan Chattopadhyay, for their alleged involvement in a corruption sting operation, Covid halted its assault of a population that was, since the last two days, under near-lockdown.
If you’ve read any of those 19th century English novels like those Jane Austens that everyone except I seem to have read or have watched any of those English crime series Midsomer.
TRIBUTE Anirban Bora 1.6.1978-1.5.2021 When I learnt of Anirban passing away, I was half through my morning mug of coffee. The mug is special: it has a cartoon Ravan staring wide-eyed – all ten pairs.
A Truly Anti-India Toolkit
Indrajit Hazra is Editor Views, Economic Times. His attempt to comment on everything under the sun has made him a social menace in certain social media circles.
‘Bengal wants its daughter only’ (Bangla nijer meykei chay) is the latest Trinamool Congress (TMC) election jingle being pumped into phones in the state. It’s certainly straight out of the central government’s ‘Vocal for Local’ toolkit. Pitted against the ‘India-Made Foreign Leader’ charms of Narendra Modi is Mamata Banerjee’s ‘Make in Bengal’ appeal. But for all its parochial parade, the Bengal government has not announced a policy that seems to be the rage among many states these days: reservation of jobs in the private sector for ‘locals’.