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Statesman News Service

Kirnahar PS OC removed after departmental probe

The controversial officer in-charge of Kirnahar police station in Birbhum district, sub-inspector (SI) Ashraful Sheikh has been removed from his post last by Birbhum superintendent of police Rajnarayan Mukherjee.

Climate Reckoning

India’s climate crisis is no longer a distant threat; it’s an urgent, daily reality. The staggering statistics on extreme weather events in 2024 ~ over 3,200 lives lost, millions of hectares of farmland ruined, and countless homes and livestock destroyed ~ paint a grim picture of a nation bearing the brunt of climate change.

Empowering Women

The analysis of election data about women elected representatives reveals that women have expanded their representation to unreserved seats. The important question that needs to be probed further is the relationship between the ‘politics of presence' of women and the ways in which these are translated into meaningful processes in the decentralization of democracy and engendering of development and politics