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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Trending video: Kacha Badam singer performs at 5-star hotel
Mumbai: The viral song ‘Kacha Badam’ has crossed boundaries and gripped people from across the world with more and more teenagers including celebrities joining the trend and grooving to the peppy tune.…
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TMC registers big win in Bengal’s 4 municipal corporations
Kolkata:The winning spree of Trinamool Congress continues in West Bengal as the party won four municipal corporations — Siliguri, Asansol, Bidhannagar and Chandannagar with a thumping majority reducing the opposition to the…
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In pics: Karnataka hijab controversy protest in Kolkata
Kolkata: Aliah University Muslim Students’ Federation activists holding a banner raise slogans, during a protest rally over the ‘hijab’ controversy in Karnataka, in Kolkata, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. (PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra) Kolkata:…
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COVID-19: India’s R value drops to 2.2 between January 7 and 13, shows IIT Madras analysis
New Delhi: India’s ‘R-value’, which indicates how rapidly COVID-19 is spreading, was recorded at 2.2 between January 7 and 13, a drop from the previous two weeks, according to a preliminary analysis…
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Mumbai cops arrest fake casting director for seeking sexual favours from actress
Mumbai: A 24-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly posed as a casting director and demanded sexual favours from a Kolkata woman, who claims to have acted in a few Bengali films,…
