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Bengal’s farming women criticise SC and PM on Mahila Kisan Diwas

Biswajit Roy - 0
Kolkata: Namita Sarkar, Pratima Haldar and Jahanara Bibi may never land up in the mighty corridors of the Parliament, Prime Minister's Office and Supreme Court in Lutyens' Delhi. Nevertheless, they raised their rugged fists in...
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Burning copies of farm bills warm up Lohri and Sankranti celebration

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Kolkata: Bengal supporters of the farmers' movement today joined in burning the copies of the pro-corporate three farm laws as well as effigies of the prime minister Narendra Modi and BJP MPs from the state...
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Tractor rally in Bengal in support to the farmers’ siege on Modi government

Biswajit Roy - 0
Kolkata: Tractors are not commonplace in West Bengal's rural landscape like Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh. Nevertheless, Rampurhat in Birbhum district today witnessed an impressive tractor rally in support of the one and half...
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Company-Raj is no better than the current middlemen raj for Bengal farmers

Biswajit Roy - 0
Kolkata: Airul Haque, a rural worker and resident of Vangar, an agricultural hub in the suburb of Kolkata, came to Dharamtalla at the heart of the city on Sunday to express his solidarity to the...
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Easy to say, let’s implement the law, will roll back if not beneficial but ask NPS sufferers

Shahnawaz Akhtar - 3
Ranchi: Girdhar Mahato, a resident of Ranchi, retired in September 2018 from the education department. He had got the job in 2011. When Mahato had applied in 1982 the vacancies were meant to be filled on...
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Letter to PM, seeking an inquiry in the fresh killing of three Kashmiri youth

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Kolkata: Track II diplomat and Chairman of centre for Peace & Progress O P Shah had written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing concern over the killing of three youth in Kashmir on...
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Let There Be Light

Around the country on a bike

Aditya Mukherjee - 0
For some, life begins after retirement. There is even a desire to live life dangerously by throwing oneself out of one’s comfort zone. It...
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Let There Be Light

Durga to be worshipped as a migrant worker in many pujas in Bengal

Biswajit Roy and Aritra Singha - 0
Kolkata: In West Bengal, it’s been a tradition for puja pandals in and around Kolkata to always resonate the present social issues through their...
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Supreme Court directs Centre and State Govt to help sex workers, WB Govt allows them to have ration cards

Biswajit Roy and Aritra Singha - 0
Kolkata: Responding to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by Kolkata-based Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC) the Supreme Court finally instructed the central and...
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CinemaScope

The legend Soumitra Chatterjee breathes his last at the age of 85

Filmwallah - 1
Kolkata: In the late 80s came a Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay novel 'Nana Ronger Aalo'. Still a school student with a deep desire to make films,...
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How soccer’s loss became Hollywood’s gain

Filmwallah - 0
For over a month, the 1965 film The Hill was on my watchlist. I kept pushing back, for a variety of reasons. Saturday evening,...
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CinemaScope

I wonder where the crowd that had camped at Jantar Mantar for days in 2012 against the rapists has disappeared today-Anubhav Sinha

Shabina Akhtar - 0
Who would know the road to evolution better than filmmaker Anubhav Sinha? A mechanical engineer from Aligarh Muslim University, Anubhav, bit by the film...
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Play On

36-9: Depressing present, ominous future

Pratik - 0
“Bhakti in religion may be a road to the salvation of the soul. But in politics, Bhakti or hero-worship is a sure road to...
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स्मॉल टाउन, बिग ड्रीम की जब भी मिसाल होगी, धोनी उस चैप्टर के नायक बने रहेंगे

नरेंद्र नाथ मिश्रा - 0
कभी सोचा था कि महेंद्र सिंह धोनी चुपके से ऐसे अलविदा कह देंगे? खामोशी से। वक्त कितना क्रूर होता है, बेरहम होता है, हम...
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Even Virat is human…

Diganta Guha - 0
Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli’s match-winning unbeaten 94 (off 50 balls) against the West Indies at Hyderabad on Friday is yet another personification of...
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Go Green

Farming no more a way of life in Mechukha, Arunachal Pradesh

Nabamita Mitra - 0
Shi-Yomi: Mechukha Valley in the newly formed Shi-Yomi district,  west Arunachal Pradesh is over 200 km from Pasighat. The constituency comprising 20 villages with...
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Kolkata Cares: City dwellers take initiatives for a Green Future

Kirti Baheti - 0
Kolkata: There might be alleged violation of National Green Tribunal's rules during the Chhath Puja celebration, at Rabindra Sarovar's green zone but average Kolkatan...
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Puja at Rabindra Sarovar: Religious sentiments vs environmental concern

Simrana Fatima and Ananya Sarkar - 0
Kolkata: Rising pollution and environmental issues might have become a focal point of discussion in many Indian cities, including national capital Delhi, but it...
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