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Monday, March 16, 2026
TopicHooghly

Topic: hooghly

How KMRC overcame obstacles to build India’s 1st underwater metro tunnel in Kolkata

Part of East-West Metro Corridor, tunnel runs for 520 metre underneath Hooghly river that cuts through twin cities of Howrah & Kolkata. Tunnel section of line to open this December.

‘Situation was horrible’ — shuttered shops & abandoned homes haunt Bengal’s Rishra after violence

Section 144 is in place in Rishra in Bengal's Hooghly where violence erupted between groups of Hindus and Muslims after stones were allegedly pelted at Ram Navami processions.

Days after Howrah violence, fresh clashes at BJP’s Ram Navami rally in Hooghly

BJP national vice-president Dilip Ghosh was leading the religious procession in Hooghly’s Rishra, claims stones thrown at ‘woman and children’. 

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India must allow citizens to invest beyond its borders. It’s risk management, not luxury

The financialisation of Indian household savings is one of the most important economic shifts of the past decade. But financialisation without international diversification creates fragile balance sheets.

Saudi crude rerouted via Red Sea to India as Hormuz tensions rise; Russian imports surge

Around 6 million barrels of Saudi oil headed to Indian ports via the kingdom’s west coast, while Indian refiners ramp up Russian purchases amid a temporary US waiver.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.