No Attendance, Full Pay? Now comes the Recovery

West Bengal’s Higher Education Department has ordered action against employees of Dum Dum Motijheel Rabindra Mahavidyalaya following allegations that some non-teaching staff remained absent from the college for prolonged periods while continuing to receive salaries. The department has reportedly directed the recovery of salaries paid during the alleged period of unauthorised absence, bringing the college’s […]

“No One Offered Milk”: The Pavement Row Turns Political

Something that began as an anti-encroachment drive on a Kolkata pavement has rapidly turned into a wider argument about poverty, public space, governance and political responsibility. The controversy began on Saturday when West Bengal Urban Development and Municipal Affairs Minister Agnimitra Paul confronted a woman living on a pavement on Free School Street during an […]

One Foundation Day, Two Claims: TMC’s Internal Battle Reaches the High Court

The Trinamool Congress’s internal conflict is now moving into another symbolic arena: the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad’s (TMCP) foundation day on August 28. Two rival camps associated with the same party are seeking to organise programmes at the traditional venue near the Mahatma Gandhi statue on Mayo Road in central Kolkata, turning what is normally a […]