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More nominated members joining parties now: RS data

Since 1952, 28 of 138 nominated members have joined either the Congress or the Bharatiya Janata Party and given up their nominated status.

Swapan Dasgupta quit Rajya Sabha to contest Bengal polls, gets his seat back

Swapan Dasgupta had resigned from the Rajya Sabha in March after the Congress wrote to Rajya Sabha chairman M Venkaiah Naidu about the BJP naming him as its candidate in the West Bengal elections

Swapan Dasgupta re-nominated to Rajya Sabha month after losing Bengal polls

Dasgupta resigned in March after objections were raised about him continuing as a Rajya Sabha member despite being announced as a candidate for the West Bengal assembly elections.

BJP to organise business event in West Bengal

Lessons from the Black Death in the time of Covid-19, writes Swapan Dasgupta

The first six months of the Covid-19 pandemic have punctured the 21st-century claim of being driven by the imperatives of science

Not enough MPs turn up, parliamentary external affairs panel meet called off

The 31-member panel is headed by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s PP Chaudhary was supposed to meet to discuss and adopt the draft report on “The Registration of Marriage of Non-Resident Indians Bill”.

Attempt to interrupt BJP MP Swapan Dasgupta’s session at Kolkata literary meet foiled

Earlier this month, student activists had virtually locked up Dasgupta and Chakraborty inside an auditorium on the Vishwa Bharati University campus for several hours to register their opposition to Dasgupta holding a session on the Citizenship Amendment Act in the varsity.

Visva Bharati varsity locks up teachers’ association office amid campus tension

An official spokesman of the varsity, however, said while Visva Bharati University Faculty Association claimed to have the support of around 300 teachers, they could not back it up and a room cannot be allotted to an organisation having two-three members.

BJP MP Swapan Dasgupta, invited to speak on Citizenship Act, locked inside room at Bengal’s Visva Bharati

Swapan Dasgupta, Visva Bharati vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty, some faculty members, staff and local BJP leaders accompanying the BJP MP had to stay inside a room for four hours after the seminar ended with students staging an agitation outside. The doors of the hall were locked from inside.

Malavika’s Mumbaistan: Instagram envy

Who in today’s selfie-obsessed age invokes the most Instagram envy? This was the subject of a recent discussion among a particularly well-heeled category of city slickers, we hear. Apparently, ‘envy’, these days, is an aspirational emotion to evoke on social media, by way of minute- by-minute broadcasts of the holidays one takes, the hotels one stays at or the luxury goods one purchases.