Priyanka Sharma case has no parallels before 2012: Police officialsIn 2012, case lodged against Mahapatra for forwarding an e-mail containing a cartoon of Didi, Roy & Trivedi
15 May, 2019, 07.47 AM IST
Grim, and bear it: Why are Indians, the world’s noisiest democrats, generally so humourless?Why are we surrounded by pompous netas, thuggish chamchas and dour babus? And why do people who live under the worst tyrannies crack the be...
18 Jul, 2016, 12.32 PM IST
PM Narendra Modi's morphed photo issue: BJP to move court against TMC leadersReferring to a letter from Lalbazar Police Headquarters, state BJP Vice-President Joy Prakash Majumdar alleged police were not taking actio...
12 May, 2016, 01.35 AM IST
5 years on, TMC's brain bank takes a beatingTMC may have failed to co-opt Leftist intellectuals but there's a new crop of young thinkers on social media who enthusiastically support M...
16 Apr, 2016, 12.12 PM IST
Greenhorns: Actors, players, retd solider in fray in WB pollsFilm stars in the fray on Trinamool ticket include actor Soham Chakraborty from Barjora seat in Bankura and sitting MLA and actress Deboshr...
03 Apr, 2016, 03.30 PM IST
Kolkata cops keep a hawk eye on social media for Mamata Banerjee's criticsPeople were summoned by the CID and Kolkata police agencies and they were asked to refrain from posting "abusive and inflammatory" content ...
10 Feb, 2016, 11.39 AM IST
Police detain north Bengal resident for writing anti-TMC postRohit Pashi, a resident of Jalpaiguri in North Bengal has today been detained by the local police for writing a post in Face Book criticisi...
06 Feb, 2016, 09.51 PM IST
Calcutta HC upholds Rs 50,000 relief to JU professor over toon rowJustice Dipankar Datta also ordered a probe into the role of two police officers involved in the arrest of Mahapatra and Subrata Sengupta.
11 Mar, 2015, 11.06 AM IST
Court directs West Bengal to pay compensation to Ambikesh Mahapatra, Subrata SenguptaHe said common people in the state were suffering in many ways when they raise questions of "misrule" of the Trinamool government.
10 Mar, 2015, 04.56 PM IST
Arrest of Mumbai girls over Facebook comment was abuse of power: CentreThe SC had taken strong exception to the arrest of the girls, after a PIL filed also cited several other incidents of similar abuse of powe...
10 Dec, 2014, 01.55 PM IST
Poke Me: Why India is now a hedgehog nationWe are offended by anything; and by its opposite, too.
30 Jan, 2013, 07.18 PM IST
Year in review: Mamata hogs limelight in BengalBegal CM finds herself more at the receiving end facing one controversy after another.
21 Dec, 2012, 11.37 AM IST
Mamata Banerjee revives issue of cartoons, warns Facebook, TwitterMamata Banerjee also alleged a conspiracy through Facebook, Twitter and SMS and said "I am being shown in Facebook. Now, it is my turn. I w...
11 May, 2012, 11.42 PM IST
Mamata's minister Jyotipriyo Mullick backtracks on his comments on CPMWest Bengal food supplies minister Jyotipriyo Mullick has asked Trinamool workers to "boycott" CPM workers and "learn to hate them".
18 Apr, 2012, 01.01 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee: Jokes on Bengal CM go viral on Twiiter and FacebookThe people of Bengal and India's vast net-logged population of extremely prickly and politically-conscious men and women have reacted angri...
15 Apr, 2012, 11.55 AM IST