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LGBTQ-friendly pan India Covid services locator launched in Kolkata
Kolkata: In the realisation that the pandemic situation caused people from the LGBTQ community great difficulties in accessing requisite medical services, three NGOs have come together to launch a pan-Indian COVID-19 services…
- India
Commercial LPG cylinder price cut by Rs 135 from June 1
New Delhi: The price for a commercial LPG cylinder has been reduced by Rs 135 with immediate effect from today. With the latest reduction, a 19-kg commercial Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder…
- Entertainment
Deceased Bengal TV actress Pallabi Dey’s live-in partner arrested
Kolkata: Within 48 hours of popular Bengali television serial actress Pallabi Dey was found hanging at her rented accommodation in south Kolkata, her live-in partner, Shagnik Chakraborty was arrested on Tuesday evening,…
- Entertainment
Popular Bengali actress Pallabi Dey found dead at Kolkata flat
Kolkata: Popular actress of Bengali television serials, Pallabi Dey, was found dead on Sunday under mysterious circumstances at her rented accommodation in South Kolkata where she used to stay with her friend…
- Photos
Mamata Banerjee at an event in Kolkata
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee waves at her supporters during a state government programme organised to celebrate the completion of one year of the party’s victory in West Bengal for…
- Photos
Photos: 27th Kolkata International Film Festival,2022
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee lights lamp in the presence of party MP Shatrughan Sinha, his wife Poonam Sinha, eminent film director Gaiutan Ghosh, party MP and Tollywood actor Dev,…
- India
Trinamool’s fact-finding parliamentary team to visit Jahangirpuri on Friday
Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress has decided to send a five-member parliamentary team on Friday to New Delhi’s Jahangirpuri area on a fact-finding mission on the purported communal violence that took place on…
- India
Tribal girl gang-raped in Santiniketan
Kolkata: Bolpur-Santiniketan in Birbhum district of West Bengal, which houses the iconic Visva-Bharati University founded by Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, is on the boil following the gang rape of a tribal girl late…
- India
Kolkata to get India’s first underwater metro tunnel by 2023
Kolkata: The construction of India’s first underwater tunnel in Kolkata under the Hooghly river for establishing metro connectivity between Howrah and Kolkata is underway and will be made fully functional by 2023.…
- Sports
IPL 2022: Bangalore win low-scoring thriller by 3 wickets against Kolkata
Mumbai: In a see-saw, low-scoring thriller in IPL 2022, where bowlers called the shots, Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by three wickets at DY Patil Stadium on Wednesday. After bowling…
- Featured News
Jam-e-Jahannuma: Marking 200 years of Urdu journalism in India
By: Dr. Md. Zafar Iqbal Hyderabad: Most people might be unaware, but 27th March is a historic day in the history of Urdu Journalism. On this date the first ever printed newspaper…
- Offbeat
Rashogolla chai: the new beverage Kolkata either loves or fears
How do you like your tea? With ginger, cardamom or tulsi leaves? How about a dollop of crème rashogolla! Yes, Rashogolla, the Bengali sweet! Yes, you heard it right! You can get…
- India
Sex workers in Kolkata’s Sonagachi celebrate Holi after two years
Kolkata: Followed by a gap of two years during which the COVID-19 pandemic marred festive celebrations, the Durbar Mahila Coordination Committee, the largest organization of sex workers in West Bengal celebrated Holi…
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Aliah University’s students protest in Kolkata
Kolkata: Police detain students of Aliah University during a rally to protest over Anish Khan murder case, in Kolkata, Tuesday,Feb. 22, 2022. (PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra) Kolkata: Students of Aliah University raise slogans…
- India
Muslim student leader’s death sparks protests in West Bengal, CM orders probe
Anis Khan, a student of Aliah University in West Bengal, who had been an active part of the protests against the contentious CAA and NRC was found dead near his residence in…
