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Sandip Chakraborty
West Bengal Tourism Industry Bleeds With 90% Bookings Cancelled Under Partial Lockdown
07 Jan 2022
Tour operators and hoteliers question the logic behind allowing the Gangasagar Mela and the civic polls.
Newsclick Report
Kolkata Civic Polls: TMC Under Scanner as Victims of Violence Move HC, Seek Re-election
23 Dec 2021
Candidates and leaders from all three main opposition parties, CPI(M), BJP and Congress, have moved the Calcutta HC seeking re-poll and probe into alleged poll violence and vote rigging.
Sandip Chakraborty
Ramsar Wetland Site in East Kolkata in Danger; Kolkata Corp Project Set to Displace Locals
05 Dec 2021
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation is trying to build a mastic asphalt plant by acquiring land, but pisciculturists of Bhangar operating in the Ramsar site are being dislodged from the area.
Nasez Afroz, Tunazzina Sharin, Sraboni Ghosh
Inherited Memories: Third Generation Perspectives on Partition in the East
15 Nov 2021
In 2015 the Goethe-Instituts in Kolkata (India) and Dhaka (Bangladesh) began a collaborative project entitled ‘Inherited Memories’.
PTI
Covid Surge in Bengal: Authorities Create 24 Containment Zones in Baruipur
27 Oct 2021
Following Durga Puja festivities, Kolkata reported an almost 27% increase in positivity rate in the past week, from 5.6% in the week ending October 14 to 7.1% in the week ending October 21.
Sandip Chakraborty
1,200 Marxist Bookstalls in Bengal Promote Communal Harmony
13 Oct 2021
Progressive literature being sold at the Autumn Festival has generated a huge response.
PTI
'We are Farmers, not Terrorists': Kolkata Durga Puja Pandal Depicts Farm law Agitation
06 Oct 2021
Durga Puja pandals in Kolkata have always depicted the current socio-economic and political issues.
Sandip Chakraborty
Protest Marches and Rallies in West Bengal Ahead of Bandh on Sept 27
26 Sep 2021
While the AIKSCC has given a call for the bandh between 6 am and 4 pm, the trade unions have called for a 24-hour general strike on September 27.
Sandip Chakraborty
Idol Makers of Famed Kumartuli Hope for Brisk Business This Durga Puja to Tide Over Crisis
12 Sep 2021
In 2019 and 2020, cyclone Amphan and Covid-19 pandemic consecutively affected the artisan community and they lost all their savings just to stay afloat.
Ritwika Mitra
Messiahs Take Care of Homeless Persons With Mental Illness
31 Aug 2021
After leading a regular life in north Kolkata’s Maniktala area for 21 years, Rumpa Goswami turned over a new leaf in 2018.