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India, Bangladesh announce new train service between Rajshahi & Kolkata
New Delhi: India and Bangladesh on Saturday announced a new train service between Rajshahi and Kolkata and a new bus service between Chittagong and Kolkata. The announcement came following a bilateral meeting…
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Day after Kanchanjunga accident, Rail officials met unions
New Delhi: A day after the June 17 accident of the Kanchanjunga Express train that left 10 dead, senior Railway Ministry officials held an emergency meeting with trade union office-bearers and discussed…
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Noted Kolkata chronicler P Thankappan Nair passes away at 91
Kochi: Acclaimed Malayalam researcher and author P. Thankappan Nair (91), who spent more than six decades in Kolkatta and is known as the most famous ‘Barefoot Historian’ of the City of Joy,…
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Trinamool Congress’s Abhishek Banerjee undergoes minor surgery
Kolkata: Senior Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday underwent a minor surgery on his back at a Kolkata-based hospital and his condition is stated to be stable, authorities of the medical…
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Massive fire at shopping mall in Kolkata
Kolkata: A massive fire broke out on the third floor of a shopping mall in the southern part of Kolkata on Friday, prompting authorities to evacuate the building, an official said. Ten…
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Kolkata teacher stops going to college over wearing ‘hijab’
Kolkata: A teacher at a private law college affiliated to the University of Calcutta resigned and stopped attending classes after the institute authorities allegedly requested her to refrain from wearing a hijab…
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TMC’s actor-MLA assaults restaurant owner for ‘abusing’ Abhishek, apologises later
Kolkata: Actor-turned-Trinamool Congress MLA Soham Chakraborty created a controversy by assaulting a restaurant owner who allegedly abused party MP Abhishek Banerjee during the shooting of a film there. Both Chakraborty and restaurant…
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Baharampur dumps Adhir Chowdhury to find a new MP in ex-cricketer Yusuf Pathan
Kolkata: It took the electorate of the Baharampur Lok Sabha constituency a quarter of a century to break the status quo and elect a new representative from the seat to the lower…
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Sandeshkhali’s voter turnout may be hit with most men working in other states
Kolkata: Amidst the hustle for survival, the riverine island of Sandeshkhali in Basirhat subdivision of North 24 Parganas district finds itself at a crossroads. As men from almost every household chase livelihood…
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Mamata Banerjee campaigns in Kolkata
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC Supremo Mamata Banerjee with party General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee during a public meeting for Lok Sabha polls, in Kolkata, Wednesday, May 29, 2024. (PTI Photo)…
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JP Nadda campaigns for LS polls in Kolkata
Kolkata: BJP National President JP Nadda waves to supporters during an election roadshow in support of the partys candidate from Kolkata South constituency Debasree Chaudhuri ahead of the seventh phase of Lok…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Kolkata
Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi offers prayers at the ‘Shiva Lingam’ during his visit to the ancestral house of Swami Vivekananda, in Kolkata, Tuesday, May 28, 2024. (PTI Photo) Kolkata: Prime Minister…
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Bangladesh MP found dead in Kolkata, murder suspected
The Bangladeshi ruling party Member of Parliament of Awami League, Anwarul Azim who had gone missing on May 13 was found dead inside a rented apartment in the upscale New Town area on…
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Bangladesh MP goes missing in Kolkata
Kolkata: An MP of Bangladesh, Anwarul Azim Anar, has been missing for the last few days after he arrived in the city for medical treatment on May 12, a senior official of…
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Kolkata North: TMC fights ‘TMC’ in battle reflecting party’s Old vs New debate
Kolkata: If one acknowledges the seismic shift within the TMC owing to the re-emergence of the ‘old versus new’ debate that symbolises a larger power struggle between party veterans and its second…
