Kolkata, Jan 7 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday gave an additional clarification on why the notice for hearing on claims and objections on the draft voters’ list was served to Nobel Awardee Economist, Dr Amartya Sen.On Tuesday, after the Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee, accused the Commission of unnecessarily sending the hearing notice to Dr Sen, the ECI had given its initial clarification that the notice was serve…
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Kolkata, Jan 6 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI), on Tuesday, clarified the claims made by the Trinamool Congress General Secretary and Lok Sabha MP, Abhishek Banerjee, accusing the Commission of serving notice for a hearing on claims and objections over the draft voters’ list in West Bengal to Nobel laureate and economist Amartya Sen. Hours after Abhishek Banerjee claimed the matter at a public rally in Birbhum district, the native district of Sen where he continues to be a voter, t…
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) Large numbers of people gathered outside the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi on Tuesday to protest the brutal killing of a Hindu youth, Dipu Chandra Das, by a radical Islamist mob in Bangladesh’s Mymensingh district.Dipu Chandra Das, a garment factory worker, was lynched in the Baluka area of Mymensingh following allegations of blasphemy levelled by a Muslim co-worker.The mob attacked Das on the night of December 18, killed him, hung his body from a tree and then…
Ottawa, Dec 22 (IANS) Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, currently serving as the Chief Advisor of the Bangladesh interim government, remains silent instead of standing for justice while the South Asian nation continues to grapple with violence and human rights abuses, several human rights bodies said in a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee.In the letter, issued by the human rights representatives, which was shared by Canada-based think tank organisation ‘Global Centre for Democratic Governance…