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Prophet row: Two top cops of Bengal’s Howrah district removed
Kolkata: Following the tension and violence in pockets of Kolkata’s adjacent Howrah district over the controversial comments on Prophet Muhammad during the last couple of days, the West Bengal government on Saturday…
- India
Prophet row: Fresh violence reported in pockets of Howrah
Kolkata: Fresh violence has erupted in certain pockets of Howrah district on Saturday morning as agitators staged demonstrations over the recent controversial remarks over Prophet Muhammad. Tension broke out in the minority-dominated…
- India
Don’t raise separate statehood issue, Nadda tells Bengal BJP leaders
Kolkata: BJP President J.P. Nadda on Thursday gave strict instructions to the party leaders in West Bengal, especially the MPs and MLAs, to refrain from raising the separate statehood issue or making…
- Crime
Man chops off wife’s hand to stop her from taking govt job
Kolkata: In a shocking case of jealousy or sheer inferiority complex, a man in West Bengal on Monday chopped off his wife’s hand from the wrist to prevent her from joining a…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
