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TopicKolkata

Topic: Kolkata

2 men from prominent Kolkata business families arrested for ‘filming 182 women, extortion’

Police arrested Aditya Agarwal and Anish Loharuka for running a sleaze racket since 2013, in which they would 'repeatedly harass, blackmail and extort the women'.

India’s first underwater metro in Kolkata to be finally ready by March 2022

Kolkata Metro expects to complete East-West project, which is partly under Hooghly river, by March 2022 after a delay of several years doubled costs.

Apartment sales are booming in Kolkata but there are no takers for office space

While Indian cities grapple with a slump in home sales and a booming office market, Kolkata faces the exact opposite.

Kolkata man found living with father’s decomposing body for 5 days

Police detains the Behala resident, brother says he is mentally unstable. The body was spotted by the brother who lives nearby.

5 days on, 59 illegal Bangladeshis sent to Kolkata from Bengaluru still await deportation

59 Bangladeshi workers detained by Bengaluru police for illegal stay were brought to Kolkata for deportation last week but the process has been since stuck.

In pictures: A dollop of pink splash in Kolkata as India-Bangladesh Test match begins

From groundsmen to politicians to veteran crickets, a tinge of pink was sported by most people at the Eden Gardens.

How Kolkata with electric buses and ferries plans to fight air pollution

Kolkata averaged a PM 2.5 concentration of 85.4 micrograms per cubic metre of air in 2018, more than eight times the recommended limit.

Economist Abhijit Banerjee is the sixth Nobel winner with a Kolkata connection

Abhijit Banerjee and his wife Esther Duflo are two of three winners of the 2019 Nobel for Economics.

Rajeev Kumar defies CBI summons, files anticipatory bail plea again

The CBI, which is looking for Rajeev Kumar, sent out teams to his residence on Park Street in Kolkata and at a resort in South 24 Parganas district.

Rajeev Kumar fails to appear before CBI, special court dismisses his anticipatory bail plea

Former Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar had applied for anticipatory bail after receiving a CBI notice in connection to the multi-crore Saradha chit-fund scam.

On Camera

Violence over Osman Hadi is about Islamist Bangladesh. India-baiting is a distraction

The attack on Chhayanaut, newspaper offices, and the public lynching of a Hindu man show that Bangladesh is heading toward Islamist rule, far removed from electoral democracy.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.