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Drunk businessman’s car mows down ragpicker, injures police constable Accident exposes violation of govt’s Covid directives; police issue fresh order An alleged drunken brawl in a bar spilled onto the road when a BMW of one of the groups hit an Audi of the other and several stationary vehicles before killing a ragpicker early on Friday. The accident happened in front of Singhji’s Bar cum Restaurant on Rajdanga Main Road, not far from the Ruby crossing. The bar-cum-restaurant was operating illegally in the heart of the city, in violation of government directives. The state government has announced the closure of bars and restaurants to curb the spread of Covid-19 in the state, violation of which attracts penal sections under the disaster management act. ....
Scheduled Caste religious group with origins in Bangladesh is grappling with identity politics On April 14, B.R. Ambedkar’s birth anniversary, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president J.P. Nadda held a road show in Bongaon town. The BJP, for which religious and sub-religious identities have emerged as the most crucial tool of the 2021 campaign in the West Bengal Assembly polls, the date and the place were well chosen. Since the past two years, Bongaon, a sub-division in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district bordering Bangladesh, is witnessing a new identity politics around the Matua sect, a Scheduled Caste religious group with origins in Bangladesh. ....
Middle class wears a frown: Waited, but nothing for us SECTIONS Share Synopsis Disappointment was writ large on the face of the common man on the street after the Union Budget was presented by Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman with many saying that it had nothing much for the middle class. AFP (This story originally appeared in on Feb 02, 2021)New Delhi: Disappointment was writ large on the face of the common man on the street after the Union Budget was presented by Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman with many saying that it had nothing much for the middle class. Rakesh Sharma, a 61-year-old senior accounts manager with a private firm in the capital, said: “The Budget might be good for small shopkeepers, but it didn’t meet my expectations. I was hoping to get a subsidy on LPG and lower taxes on petrol. The agriculture cess might increase the prices of lentils and the end consumer will have to bear the brunt of it.” ....