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Vidyasagar's statue to be installed on June 11: Mamata
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Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 3 (ANI): Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's statue, which was vandalised during Union Home Minister Amit Shah's roadshow in Kolkata on May 14 will be re-installed on June 11, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced today.
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PM Modi meets Governors of several states
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New Delhi [India], May 31 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday met governors of several states in the capital after taking charge of the office.
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New Home Secy, 5-member team will probe Vidyasagar statue desecration, say
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Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 27 (ANI): Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday announced that the state's new Home Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay and a five-member committee will look into the vandalism of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's bust earlier this month.
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Maharashtra Gov signs ordinance to bring medical admissions under SEBC quo
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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 20 (ANI): Maharashtra Governor C Vidyasagar Rao on Monday signed an ordinance to provide quota under Socially and Economically Backward Class (SEBC) Reservation Act, 2018 to candidates seeking admission to post-graduate medical and dental courses.
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Kolkata police to probe Vidyasagar's bust vandalism
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Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 16 (ANI): Kolkata Police has constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the alleged vandalism of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's bust at Vidyasagar College here during BJP president Amit Shah's roadshow on May 14.
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WB statue vandalism: PM Modi demands strict action, questions Mamata govt
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Mathurapur (West Bengal) [India], May 16 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday demanded strict action against those who vandalised Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's bust in Kolkata and accused the Mamata Banerjee government of removing CCTV footage of the incident.
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Banerjee criticises security issue at PM's Mathurapur rally
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Mathurapur (West Bengal) [India], May 16 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday criticised the security issue at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally in Mathurapur, insisting that other political parties, including TMC, also need security at the time of campaigning.
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You couldn't build Ram Temple in 5 yrs and now you want to make Vidyasagar
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Diamond Harbour (West Bengal) [India], May 16 (ANI): The war of words over the vandalisation of the bust of Bengal Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar escalated on Thursday with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a liar and rejecting his offer to build a grand statu
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Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar - social reformer at centre of a modern-day pol
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New Delhi [India], May 16 (ANI): A prominent figure in West Bengal, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar has come under the spotlight after a statue of him was vandalised on Tuesday night during violence at BJP president Amit Shah's roadshow in Kolkata.
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Bengal has money to make Vidyasagar's statue: Mamata hits back at Modi
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Mathurapur (West Bengal) [India], May 16 (ANI): Hours after Narendra Modi promised a grand statue of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar at the same spot where the old one stood before being vandalised, Mamata Banerjee shot back and asserted that West Bengal has the money required for the polymath'
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Modi promises grand Vidyasagar statue, as battle with TMC intensifies
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Mau (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 16 (ANI): Narendra Modi on Thursday launched a blistering attack against Mamata Banerjee by stating that she has no belief in the elected Prime Minister of India and said he had to leave the stage at a rally in West Bengal due to "TMC hooliganism". Modi al
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BJP workers hold countrywide protest against Kolkata violence, Mamata's 'a
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New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers on Wednesday staged protests across various parts of the country against the violence that took place during party chief Amit Shah's roadshow in Kolkata on Tuesday.
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