Kolkata rape-murder case: ‘Nabanna Abhijan’ rally begins amid high security
The rally began from the College Square in the capital of West Bengal. The West Bengal Police has deployed heavy forces to control the protests.
Delhi excise policy case: SC grants bail to BRS leader K Kavitha in both ED and CBI cases
ED arrested Kavitha from her Banjara Hills residence in Hyderabad on March 15. The CBI arrested her on April 11 from Tihar jail
2024 Countdown: Harris has post-DNC momentum but Trump is burning up campaign trail with 10 weeks left
Tuesday marks 10 weeks until Election Day on Nov. 5. And former President Trump is now working at breakneck speed as he aims to blunt Vice President Harris’ momentum as she rides a wave of energy and enthusiasm out of last week’s Democratic National Convention. Trump campaigns this week in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, three of the seven battleground states from coast to coast that will likely determine the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. His running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, returns to Michigan. Last week, as the Democrats held their convention in Chicago, Trump stopped in five of the key swing states, part of his counter-programming effort, with Vance also crisscrossing the campaign trail. TRUMP PICKS UP PACE AS WHITE HOUSE RACE ENTERS FINAL PHASE The vice president and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, kick off a two-day bus tour this week in the crucial southeastern battleground of Georgia. Expect the bumper-to-bumper traffic on the campaign trail to be repeated going forward until Election Day. HEAD HERE FOR THE LATEST FOX NEWS POLLING IN 2024 ELECTION But over the next month, there are also a handful of major markers that could impact the outcome of the election. Trump, Vance, their campaign and allied Republicans have repeatedly criticized Harris for not holding a news conference or sitting for an interview since replacing President Biden at the top of the Democratic Party’s 2024 ticket more than five weeks ago. “She can’t answer questions,” Trump said on Monday as he took questions from reporters during a stop in northern Virginia.” Why doesn’t she do something like I’m doing right now?” So, all eyes will be on Harris to see if she lives up to her promise to do a national news media interview by the end of the month. There are just a handful of days left in August, and the end of the month brings anticipation of the latest fundraising figures from both the Trump and Harris campaigns. Biden enjoyed the fundraising lead over Trump earlier this year, but the former president saw his fundraising soar in the late spring and early summer. But after Biden’s blockbuster move to end his re-election bid and Harris replacing him as the Democrats’ standard-bearer, the campaign and the party’s fundraising surged and Harris walloped Trump in fundraising during July. The August numbers, which the campaigns could release as early as Sept. 1, will be closely watched and scrutinized, as fundraising along with polling is a crucial metric. The first and possibly the only presidential debate between Harris and Trump is scheduled for Sept. 10 in Philadelphia. But Trump on Monday questioned whether he would take part in the ABC News-hosted showdown as he charged that the network was “biased.” The face-off, if it truly happens, could be the most important evening in the 2024 presidential election, with the power to potentially shift or transform the current margin-of-error race between the vice president and the former president. For proof of this, look back to the late-June debate between Biden and Trump. The president’s disastrous performance fueled questions about whether the 81-year-old president had the mental and physical stamina to handle another four years in the White House. And it sparked calls from within his own party for Biden to drop out of the race. Less than a month after the clash in Atlanta, the president was out of the race. There are 70 days to go until Election Day, but some voters start casting ballots next month. In swing state North Carolina, mail-in voting begins on Sept. 6. And early voting begins on Sept. 16 in Pennsylvania and Sept. 26 in Michigan, two other crucial electoral battlegrounds. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
Police vote key to election as cops weigh ‘lawlessness vs law and order’ on ballot: retired chief
The votes of the law enforcement professionals and their families will help determine the election as police officers weigh the prospect of heightened lawlessness on American streets under a potential Vice President Harris administration, a retired Illinois police chief predicted. “It’s my personal belief that no police officer or family member should vote for [Harris’] agenda, because it’s anti-police,” retired Riverside Police Chief Tom Weitzel told Fox News Digital in a Zoom interview. “All you have to do is look at her record. I mean, you can go back to when she helped the Minneapolis Freedom Fund. I don’t know of any evidence that she donated money, but I do know evidence that she publicized it and that attracted more money to that freedom fund, which is basically a bond fund to bond out prisoners. And many of those prisoners that were bonded out had attacked police officers during the riot, especially the George Floyd rioting.” Weitzel said his comments on Harris, the 2024 Democrat presidential nominee, and her Republican opponent, former President Trump, are made through a public safety lens, stripping away typical Republican-vs.-Democrat politics in favor of weighing the two candidates based on their track record of curbing crime and supporting law enforcement. KAMALA HARRIS’ RECORD AS PROSECUTOR IN CALIFORNIA SPELLS ‘TROUBLE’ FOR PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN: LAWYER Weitzel argued that the police vote could sway the election, noting that when considering family members and loved ones, the police vote sits at about 1.5 million people. “I read a story the other day that there’s over 710,000 police officers, full-time police officers in the United States, over [840,000] if you take in federal law enforcement and specialized agencies, such as colleges and universities. Those are votes and most of those law enforcement officers you know, their spouses, their children, their friends, that there could be 1.5 million votes there, easily, if not more,” Weitzel explained. DNC PAINTS HARRIS AS ‘LAW AND ORDER’ STANDARD-BEARER AS PAST COMMENTS ON ‘MILITARIZATION OF POLICE’ RESURFACE Weitzel retired from the Riverside Police Department, which is located about 12 miles from downtown Chicago, in 2021 after serving as the department’s chief for 13 years. He served in law enforcement for a total of 37 years, which included him being ambushed and shot in the line of duty in 1987 by Chicago criminals. Fox News Digital spoke to Weitzel just days after high-profile Democrats flooded Chicago for the Democratic National Convention, where Harris officially accepted her party’s nomination for president. Harris touted the military and her law enforcement background as San Francisco’s district attorney and California attorney general, but she did not offer full-throated support to police or first responders. Harris said “law enforcement” three times in her speech on Thursday evening, including two references to Jan. 6, 2021, when supporters of Trump breached the U.S. Capitol. KAMALA WAS A ROGUE SOROS-LIKE PROSECUTOR BEFORE IT WAS POPULAR AMONG WOKE ELITES “And let me be clear … after decades in law enforcement, I know the importance of safety and security, especially at our border. Last year, Joe and I brought together Democrats and conservative Republicans to write the strongest border bill in decades. The border patrol endorsed it. But Donald Trump believes a border deal would hurt his campaign, so he ordered his allies in Congress to kill the deal,” Harris said when mentioning law enforcement for the third and final time in her speech. Weitzel said Harris made a “huge mistake” by not trying to build a bridge with police during her speech, pointing to how Trump conversely made further inroads with law enforcement and first responders during his Republican National Convention (RNC) speech in July, when he paid an emotional tribute to retired fire chief Corey Comperatore. HARRIS CAMPAIGN SIGNALS CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR ENDING CASH BAIL Comperatore was killed last month in Butler, Pennsylvania, during a Trump rally when shooter Thomas Crooks attempted to assassinate the 45th president. Trump was wounded when a bullet grazed his ear. “Corey, a highly respected former fire chief … was accompanied by his wife, Helen … and two precious daughters,” Trump said during his convention speech. “He lost his life selflessly acting as a human shield to protect them from flying bullets … what a fine man he was.” Trump also walked over to Comperatore’s firefighting jacket and helmet, which were sent to the convention by his family, and held a moment of silence for the Pennsylvania dad. Weitzel said Harris not honoring first responders in her speech was a mistake while arguing Trump’s “human touch” of honoring Comperatore spoke volumes to those who work in public safety. KAMALA HARRIS’ LEGAL, POLITICAL CAREER KICKED OFF WITH FAILED BAR EXAM “Trump honored the firefighter that was killed during his assassination attempt. Did you see the part when he walked over to where they put a mannequin up with his fire gear on? That type of respect for the fire service is the same type of respect it is given to law enforcement. That’s a public safety realm. That’s the public safety realm of fire and police, and that’s why police officers support him also. … That type of human touch and that type of support that was shown during the RNC for that fire chief that was killed is the same reason police are supporting him and have been since his presidency,” Weitzel said. RETIRED ILLINOIS POLICE CHIEF RELIVES LATE-NIGHT ‘AMBUSH’ BY CHICAGO GANGSTER WHO LEFT HIM FOR DEAD: AUDIO Weitzel said the election comes down to “lawlessness vs. law and order” and that police support of Trump’s run will only increase as the election cycle spills into the fall. The retired police chief said the cops who he speaks to are “concerned” about a potential Harris administration after Democrats nationwide turned their backs on officers in 2020, rallying support to defund police amid widespread riots following the death of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis. “They’re very concerned. And make no mistake, you know, Trump isn’t perfect. Nobody’s saying
GOP governor rips Harris after analysis reveals eye-popping cost of illegal immigration in state: ‘Disaster’
The state of Mississippi is spending over $100 million on illegal immigration, according to a new report by the state — with the governor blaming it on an “intention failure” by the feds to secure the border. The report by the Mississippi state auditor found that there are at least 22,000 illegal immigrants in the state. Analysts estimate that it costs taxpayers over $100 million annually, with more than $25 million to educate illegal immigrants in public school alone. Meanwhile, taxpayers spend $77 million to provide healthcare for illegal immigrants and their children, and another $1.7 million to incarcerate illegal immigrant criminals, it found. BORDER RESIDENTS SPEAK OUT AGAINST KAMALA HARRIS’ RECORD ON SECURITY: ‘EVERYTHING IS LITERALLY OPEN’ “Mississippi’s illegal immigration problem is spiraling out of control and is costing taxpayers millions,” said State Auditor Shad White. “Our public schools, hospitals, and prisons will continue to lose massive sums of money that we could have spent on our own citizens if this problem is not solved.” The number is only an estimate because specific data is not always available. The report noted that the Mississippi Dept. of Education is barred from collecting citizenship information. Instead, it used data from the University of Mississippi to project that there are approximately 2,500 illegal immigrants attending public schools. It also accounted for extra spending on English Language Learners and Low Income Student Supplements. For healthcare, the report found that approximately 50% of illegal immigrants have no healthcare coverage and 38% use emergency medical services for primary care. It also notes the costs of births to illegal immigrants and the cost of Medicaid for children born to illegal immigrants — who are citizens of the United States. OVER 100 STUDENTS WITHOUT BUS SERVICE AS MASSACHUSETTS FUNDS BUSES FOR MIGRANTS The report says that due to the limited amount of reliable data, the actual spending could be much higher. The report comes at a time when border security and the ongoing crisis at the southern border is a top priority for voters and a major issue ahead of the November election. In a statement to Fox News Digital, Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves said that states “are being forced to step up and pay for the Biden-Harris administration’s intentional failure to secure our border, and Mississippi is no exception.” CLICK HERE FOR MORE IMMIGRATION COVERAGE “Their dangerous immigration policies are endangering Americans and putting enormous financial strain on states all across our country — and it’s long past time to put a stop to it. It’s clear Kamala Harris isn’t up to fixing the administration’s self-inflicted problems at the border,” he said. “She’s been a disaster as border czar and is actually making the situation worse. Securing our border starts with electing Donald Trump in November.” Republicans have blamed the three-year border crisis on the Biden administration’s policies, claiming that the administration rolled back Trump-era policies and encouraged migrants to flood into the country as a result. The Biden administration has said it needs more funding and reform, including a recent bipartisan Senate bill, but that Republicans have failed to provide it. It has also pointed to a recent sharp drop in encounters and releases since President Biden signed an executive order limiting asylum in June. Vice President Kamala Harris told attendees at the Democratic National Convention last week that former President Trump has “ordered his allies in Congress to kill the deal.” CLICK TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “As president, I will bring back the bipartisan border security bill that he killed, and I will sign it into law. I know, I know, we can live up to our proud heritage as a nation of immigrants and reform our broken immigration system,” she said. “We can create an earned pathway to citizenship and secure our border.”
Vermont GOP sees ‘record’ ballot boost as blue-state citizens ‘see the need for change’
After tabulations from the state’s recent primary were finalized, the Vermont Republican Party recorded 22 new candidates for state House races, on top of the 74 that had already been on the ballot for the 150-member chamber. While nationally considered a blue state, Vermont Republican Party Chairman Paul Dame said Monday the development was exceptional, given the state’s actual penchant to blur partisan lines. He ascribed the GOP’s boost to a recently enacted “double-digit” property tax hike in the state, as well as voters’ renewed focus on the presidential race. “I think we’re absolutely poised to pick up seats from where we have been, there seems to be much more energy and cohesion on the Republican side than we’ve had in a while,” Dame said. RNC FILES LAWSUIT OVER NONCITIZEN VOTING RIGHTS IN VERMONT’S LARGEST CITY Gov. Phil Scott, a moderate Republican ranked the most popular such official in the country at 81%, has also been involved with party work, Dame said. A request for comment from Scott was not immediately returned. Dame said he’s talked to several of the new candidates, including a man from Colchester, who had been on the fence when petitions were circulated in May. “Over the summer, you always get his kids ready to enroll in school. And he said, ‘You know what – now Vermont is going to be our home. We’re going to make a commitment to stay here. If that’s the case, I want to run and change the course that we’re on,’” Dame recalled. In Vermont, many of the latecomers to the ballot appear to follow a similar timeline. After the primary ballot is finalized in May, voters realize there are vacancies on the final ballot and then may try to organize write-in campaigns. VERMONT REBUILDS AFTER HURRICANE FLOODING If 25 voters write the same name in for a House seat, or 50 voters for a state Senate seat, that name will then appear on the November general election ballot. While 96 Republicans is still somewhat distant from two decades ago when Vermont saw 130 Republicans on the ballot, the significance is that Vermonters are stepping up to serve. “It’s a story of regular voters, seeing the need for change and deciding that they’re willing to step up and be part of that change,” he said. “It’s definitely inflation and affordability. I think that that’s sort of the national… but then Vermont is adding a new layer on top of that.” With the Democrats recently earning a supermajority in the legislature, Scott has issued a record number of vetoes and Democratic lawmakers in return have issued a record number of veto overrides. Thus was the case in the property tax debate, with Scott calling for “tax relief now,” while House Speaker Jill Krowinski, D-Chittenden, said the governor failed to offer a sufficient alternative plan. As for the GOP’s prospects in November, Vermont has had a penchant for ideologically divergent election results. Scott is just as much a heavy favorite as Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., the self-described “democratic socialist.” “Vermonters vote for authenticity,” Dame added. “And both Gov. Phil Scott and Sen. Bernie Sanders have a relationship with Vermonters that Vermonters know that they believe what they’re saying – they say very different things, but they know that they can trust what they’re saying there and they’re not pandering.” Both Scott and Sanders are not afraid to criticize their own party. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Sanders has critiqued President Biden and members of the Democratic caucus in Congress on occasion, while Scott was the first GOP governor to back impeachment inquiries against former President Trump. In the latest University of New Hampshire poll, Sanders leads his Republican challenger Gerald Malloy 66-25%. Scott leads Democrat Esther Charlestin by a similar 55-28%. Former Sen. Jim Jeffords, R-Vt., who notably ceded Republican control of the Senate when he switched to a Democrat-caucusing-Independent in 2001, was the last GOP member of Congress from the Green Mountain State. Fox News Digital reached out to the Vermont Democratic Party for comment but did not hear back by press time.
ED to probe financial irregularities against RG Kar Medical College ex-principal Sandip Ghosh
The ED will probe the case of alleged financial irregularities against Sandip Ghosh, ex-principal of RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata.
‘I would urge upon…’: West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose’s remarks on Nabanna Abhijan Rally
Amid the heightened security around the West Bengal state secretariat in the wake of the Nabanna Abhijan Rally, the West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose has made an appeal to the state government.
Trump threatens to quit Kamala debate after RFK backs him, denounces media
The debate over debates tells us a great deal about the state of the presidential race. If only we could figure out what it is. Donald Trump, by slamming “ABC FAKE NEWS,” suggested he may pull out of the Sept. 10 faceoff. He said yesterday at a Vietnamese restaurant in Virginia that it was Kamala Harris who is trying to back out of the debate. A top Harris campaign official, Michael Tyler, responded on MSNBC that the vice president is actually anxious to debate and he thought all the issues had been worked out. KAMALA HARRIS, TIME COVER GIRL: IS HER SURGE AGAINST TRUMP FUELED BY AN ENDLESS MEDIA HONEYMOON? My best read is that the debate will happen and that this is the kind of last-minute negotiation for which Trump is renowned. Remember, this debate was worked out with Joe Biden, whose first encounter with Trump, which the president demanded, was such a disaster that it knocked him out of the race. That led to Harris as the substitute nominee, which was not a “coup” – it’s clear that Trump misses Biden – because nobody ran against Kamala. A good rule of thumb is that the candidate who is perceived to be behind, or to have lost momentum, wants the debate more urgently. At the CNN debate, Biden insisted that the microphones be muted for the candidate who wasn’t recognized to speak. He was obviously trying to avoid a repeat of their first 2020 encounter, when Trump constantly talked over him. But now Kamala is insisting that the mikes be kept live no matter who is speaking. Her campaign says this will demonstrate that Trump isn’t capable of acting “presidential” for 90 minutes. Another way to look at it: If the former president does constantly interrupt her, it will remind people what they don’t like about him – and could seem more rude when up against a woman of color. Then she can complain that he trampled on her. TRUMP, REJECTING ADVICE, TRIES MOCKERY, INSULTS, AI AGAINST KAMALA, BUT IS IT WORKING? In fairness, though, what Harris wants now is the way it’s been in virtually every presidential fall debate. It was the CNN debate, at the insistence of the 81-year-old Biden, that was the exception. Is this dispute enough to derail the thing? Again, I doubt it. Here’s what Trump had to say (and he’s back tweeting!): “I watched ABC FAKE NEWS this morning, both lightweight reporter Jonathan Carl’s (K?) ridiculous and biased interview of Tom Cotton (who was fantastic!), and their so-called Panel of Trump Haters, and I ask, why would I do the Debate against Kamala Harris on that network?… Will panelist Donna Brazil[e] give the questions to the Marxist Candidate like she did for Crooked Hillary Clinton? Will Kamala’s best friend, who heads up ABC, do likewise.” After making fun of the name of George Stephanopoulos – who will not be involved in the debate – Trump says: They’ve got a lot of questions to answer!!! Why did Harris turn down Fox, NBC, CBS, and even CNN? Stay tuned!!!” The ABC panel that drew Trump’s ire was Karl, Politico’s Jonanthan Martin and Rachael Bade, and contributor Donna Brazile. The 45th president, who is facing an overwhelmingly hostile press corps, may also be trying to grab some attention after a month of pro-Kamala coverage. The Democratic convention was successful by almost any measure, including Harris’ speech, but when Rachel Maddow said that she and others at the MSNBC mothership “stood up and cheered” over Tim Walz’s appearance, that was rather striking. What’s equally fascinating is how many pundits defended Biden’s mental acuity, but now, with Trump running against a 59-year-old woman, are trying to portray him as having lost a few steps. Most journalists and commentators have displayed little interest in Harris’ refusal to do interviews, with some even saying she shouldn’t because things are going so well. Her deputy campaign manager told me on “Media Buzz” that the first one would be by Aug. 31, and we’ll see if it’s with a sympathetic liberal. Trump, meanwhile, did two lengthy news conferences in about a week – and MSNBC refused to take the second one live, with their pundits saying he lies all the time anyway. RFK JR QUITS, DENOUNCES MEDIA RFK Jr. stepped on Harris’ post-convention vibe fest by dropping out and endorsing Trump, which certainly could help him at least marginally in such a close race. MSNBC, again, refused to take Kennedy’s presser live. Now does anyone seriously believe that if RFK had endorsed Kamala Harris, the network wouldn’t have aired it live – and immediately invited him on? Kennedy fans are welcome to vote for him, although his siblings called his Trump endorsement the ultimate betrayal. His response was to scapegoat the media: “ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC and CNN combined gave only two live interviews. Those networks instead ran a continuous deluge of hit pieces with inaccurate, often vile audios and defamatory smears … “Your institutions have made themselves government mouthpieces and stenographers for the organs of power.” Many interviews are pretaped, but the reason the networks gave RFK little airtime is he was a fringe candidate with no plausible hope of winning a single state. He was certainly a colorful candidate – saying he had a brain worm, covering up how he put a dead bear carcass in his car that he planned to eat for dinner – but that’s something entirely different. And consider this: RFK ran as a Democrat, then an independent. He tried to make a deal with both Kamala and Trump to trade his endorsement for the promise of a top health care job if either won. That didn’t work out. SUBSCRIBE TO HOWIE’S MEDIA BUZZMETER PODCAST, A RIFF ON THE DAY’S HOTTEST STORIES So he endorsed Trump anyway without a job promise, unless there was a wink and a nod. Doesn’t that raise questions about what Kennedy actually stands for? Now, as such speakers as Bill
Meet Kabita Sarkar, lawyer who will represent accused Sanjay Roy in Kolkata doctor rape-murder case
The Sealdah court of West Bengal’s Kolkata has appointed lawyer Kabita Sarkar to represent accused Sanjay Roy in the rape and murder case of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical college.