Mamata Banerjee on Sunday yet again accused the BJP of attempting to disrupt peace in Sandeshkhali and said the situation was being exaggerated, while a visiting delegation of her party’s leadership met people on the ground to assess the ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphThe Eastern Himalaya Travel & Tour Operators’ Association (EHTTOA) has decided to promote cross-border tourism and adventure tourism in eastern India.The decision was made at the biennial meeting of the association in Kalimpong on Saturday.“Our association is working to ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphTrade union leaders of Trinamul, along with party workers, have set a target to meet workers employed across 130-plus tea estates across the Dooars belt during the next 11 days.From Monday, the Trinamul Cha Bagan Shramik Union (TCBSU) will ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Sunday yet again accused the BJP of attempting to disrupt peace in Sandeshkhali and said the situation was being exaggerated, while a visiting delegation of her party’s leadership met people on the ground to assess the ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee has asked chief secretary B.P. Gopalika to launch a portal to register the names of those whose Aadhaar cards were deactivated and has vowed that nobody in Bengal will be denied any government service or benefit on ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday pointed fingers at the BJP for instigating the turmoil in Sandeshkhali, eliciting a swift rebuttal from the BJP, which in turn accused the TMC and the state government of complicity in ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphThe BJP adopted a political resolution on Sandeshkhali in its two-day national convention in Delhi that ended on Sunday, making it obvious that the party plans to use the issue against Trinamul in the Lok Sabha elections.The resolution was ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphTea planters in north Bengal have issued a caveat days before the Minimum Wages Advisory Committee meeting, stating that the implementation of the minimum pay at this moment will sound the death knell for the industry.The Bengal government has ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphThree ministers in the cabinet of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday visited Sandeshkhali, which has been witnessing protests, to "speak to people about their grievances".The land department also opened camps to register the complaints of villagers ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday alleged that the BJP-led central government "deactivated" Aadhaar card of people in the state before the upcoming Lok Sabha elections so that they do not get the benefits of various social ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress on Saturday cancelled its “confidence-building” public meeting scheduled for Sunday in the trouble-torn Sandeshkhali citing the ongoing higher secondary examination. The ruling party has instead decided to hold an internal organisational meeting on Sunday to take ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphPanic spread among several people across Bengal after they received letters from the UIDAI informing them that their Aadhaar number had been deactivated and their requirements to stay in the country were not fulfilled.The UIDAI or Unique Identification Authority ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphIn the end, the House played it safe, and the motion against India needing a new Constitution survived the evening’s to-and-fro duelling by a bare breath.The invisible elephant on the dew-fed Calcutta Club lawns — the looming threat of ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee is known to speak bluntly and from the heart, even knowing that it may, on occasion, hurt her. The avatar of herself that she put on display as keynote speaker at the Calcutta Club on Saturday night ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphPanic spread among several people across Bengal after they received letters from the UIDAI informing them that their Aadhaar number had been deactivated and their requirements to stay in the country were not fulfilled.The UIDAI or Unique Identification Authority ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress on Saturday cancelled its “confidence-building” public meeting scheduled for Sunday in the trouble-torn Sandeshkhali citing the ongoing higher secondary examination. The ruling party has instead decided to hold an internal organisational meeting on Sunday to take ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphRajesh Banik, a sweet shop owner in Madarihat of Alipurduar, was shocked to see empty containers in his shop early on Saturday morning.Sweets worth Rs 50,000 that he had readied late on Friday night for a wedding order had ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphThe tea trade union of Mamata Banerjee’s party will begin an 11-day march across the Dooars next week to inform tea workers and their families about the state government's initiatives taken for them in contrast to the alleged apathy ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphThe Kamtapur Progressive Party (KPP), a regional political force in north Bengal with considerable clout among the Rajbanshis, has decided to launch a campaign against the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha polls over "unmet Rajbanshi demands".“We have lined ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphThe Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) started a three-day fest in Sittong of Kurseong sub-division on Saturday to promote rural tourism and homestay facilities across the hills.Named the Darjeeling Ecotourism and Cultural Festival, the event was flagged off at Ahaldara, ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphIn a major reshuffle in its IPS cadre, the West Bengal government on Saturday removed senior officer Sumit Kumar from the post of DIG (Barasat Range) and made him DIG (Security), an official said.Kumar was replaced by DIG (Malda ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphTea planters in north Bengal have issued a caveat days before the Minimum Wages Advisory Committee meeting, stating that the implementation of the minimum pay at this moment will sound the death knell for the industry.The Bengal government has ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphThe Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) started a three-day fest in Sittong of Kurseong sub-division on Saturday to promote rural tourism and homestay facilities across the hills.Named the Darjeeling Ecotourism and Cultural Festival, the event was flagged off at Ahaldara, ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphRajesh Banik, a sweet shop owner in Madarihat of Alipurduar, was shocked to see empty containers in his shop early on Saturday morning.Sweets worth Rs 50,000 that he had readied late on Friday night for a wedding order had ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphThe Kamtapur Progressive Party (KPP), a regional political force in north Bengal with considerable clout among the Rajbanshis, has decided to launch a campaign against the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha polls over "unmet Rajbanshi demands".“We have lined ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphThe tea trade union of Mamata Banerjee’s party will begin an 11-day march across the Dooars next week to inform tea workers and their families about the state government's initiatives taken for them in contrast to the alleged apathy ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphAuthorities of the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) in Kalyani have written to the Bengal government to include it as a service provider under its flagship health insurance scheme Swasthya Sathi.Since the facilities under the Centre-sponsored health ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphA six-member team of the West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR) on Saturday visited Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district to ascertain complaints of child abuse in the politically troubled area.Villagers alleged that a seven-month-old child ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphThe Vishwa Hindu Parishad has filed a petition before the Jalpaiguri Circuit Bench of Calcutta High Court claiming that a lioness transferred to Bengal Safari Park here from Tripura was named "Sita" and prayed that the name be changed, ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Saturday said the doors of Raj Bhavan are open for the women of trouble-torn Sandeshkhali who feel unsafe in their homes.Speaking to PTI, Bose, who considers himself the Rakhi brother of the ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphTrinamul leader Shibu Hazra arrested after complaints of sexual harassment by women in Sandeshkhali: reports NDTVThis is a breaking news. Please refresh the page for recent updates.
18 February 2024 TelegraphThe Mamata Banerjee dispensation has decided to reach out to each of the 21 lakh-odd MGNREGA workers after their due wages are cleared by the Bengal government on March 1 to make the beneficiary aware that the payment is ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress has launched a drive in Sandeshkhali to identify residents whose properties were allegedly grabbed by party leaders Shibaprasad Hazra and Uttam Sardar and to pay compensation for the expropriated assets. Hazra and Sardar who, along with ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphJyoti Priya Mallick, who had been arrested in connection with the multi-crore food grains distribution "scam" in October last year, was removed from the council of ministers and his portfolios were distributed among Partha Bhowmick, the irrigation minister, and ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphThe Mamata Banerjee dispensation has decided to reach out to each of the 21 lakh-odd MGNREGA workers after their due wages are cleared by the Bengal government on March 1 to make the beneficiary aware that the payment is ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress has launched a drive in Sandeshkhali to identify residents whose properties were allegedly grabbed by party leaders Shibaprasad Hazra and Uttam Sardar and to pay compensation for the expropriated assets. Hazra and Sardar who, along with ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphA new political party has emerged ahead of the Lok Sabha polls with the old demand of a north Bengal state as its principal agenda.The Bhumiputra United Party, which obtained a registration from the Election Commission of India in ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal government has decided to hold a meeting of the minimum wages advisory committee in Siliguri on Tuesday days after Calcutta High Court’s deadline for the state to fix the minimum wage of tea plantation workers expired.Sources said ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphHundreds of tribals in Malda staged a demonstration and blocked a highway on Friday, alleging that a woman from their community had been assaulted at a private nursing home in the district.Police had to convince the demonstrators, who were ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to Trinamul Congress leader Manik Bhattacharya's son Souvik Bhattacharya, who is in jail in connection with the alleged teachers’ recruitment scam.The order relating to terms and conditions for the bail had not ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphA man’s skeleton was found in a dried-up pond in North Dinajpur district on Friday morning.Police have recovered the skeleton and are planning to conduct DNA tests to identify the victim.Family members of a private security guard who has ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphAuthorities of the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) in Kalyani have written to the Bengal government to include it as a service provider under its flagship health insurance scheme Swasthya Sathi.Since the facilities under the Centre-sponsored health ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to Trinamul Congress leader Manik Bhattacharya's son Souvik Bhattacharya, who is in jail in connection with the alleged teachers’ recruitment scam.The order relating to terms and conditions for the bail had not ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal government has decided to hold a meeting of the minimum wages advisory committee in Siliguri on Tuesday days after Calcutta High Court’s deadline for the state to fix the minimum wage of tea plantation workers expired.Sources said ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphA new political party has emerged ahead of the Lok Sabha polls with the old demand of a north Bengal state as its principal agenda.The Bhumiputra United Party, which obtained a registration from the Election Commission of India in ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphJyoti Priya Mallick, who had been arrested in connection with the multi-crore food grains distribution "scam" in October last year, was removed from the council of ministers and his portfolios were distributed among Partha Bhowmick, the irrigation minister, and ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphAbhishek Banerjee on Friday chaired an internal meeting of Trinamul Congress leaders and exhorted them to go all out against the BJP in the general election, which he purportedly said would be of “resistance and revenge”.The closed-door virtual meeting ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphThe Lok Sabha privileges committee issued summonses to the Bengal chief secretary, director general of police and three other officials based on a complaint filed by BJP Balurghat MP and state unit chief Sukanta Majumdar on Thursday.According to a ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Thursday called the Narendra Modi dispensation at the Centre “Ravan’s government”, accusing it of having crossed all limits of decency and tearing into it over the alleged ill-treatment of protesting farmers. The Bengal chief minister also ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphTwo masked men entered a primary school in North Dinajpur district on Thursday afternoon and attacked a female teacher with sharp weapons many times. Ratna Khatun, 35, is under treatment at Raiganj Government Medical College & Hospital with serious ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphThe Union ministry of civil aviation and the Airports Authority of India (AAI) will start the construction of the new terminal and allied infrastructure at the Bagdogra airport next month, said Darjeeling MP Raju Bista.“The foundation stone for the ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Friday questioned why opposition political parties were not allowed to go to Sandeshkhali, which has been rocked by protests over alleged atrocities on villagers by TMC leaders.He alleged that the Mamata ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphThe turmoil in Sandeshkhali, where protests have been continuing over alleged TMC-led atrocities against villagers, kept West Bengal's political cauldron on the boil on Friday with police blocking visits by Congress and BJP teams, including Union ministers, to the ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphA BJP central team, which was stopped from visiting the restive Sandeshkhali block, on Friday evening called on West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose and said that the party would move court to seek permission to go there.The ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to Souvik Bhattacharya, son of Trinamul Congress (TMC) MLA Manik Bhattacharya, arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case related to the West Bengal teachers' recruitment "scam".A bench of Justices ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday alleged “RSS role” behind the unrest at Sandeshkhali, asserting “outsiders” had sinister plans of unleashing tension there during Saraswati Puja.She added that untoward incidents were averted as her government took stern steps to ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphRaids by the Enforcement Directorate are underway at the residences and office of a builder, who is considered close to former West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, in connection with its probe into alleged irregularities in the recruitment in primary ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider listing a PIL seeking a court-monitored CBI or SIT probe into the violence in West Bengal's Sandeshkhali village.A day after the filing, the PIL was mentioned for urgent listing before a ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphNCSC chief Arun Halder on Friday said the commission has recommended the imposition of President's rule in West Bengal in its report submitted to President Droupadi Murmu on alleged harassment of women by TMC supporters in Sandeshkhali.A delegation of ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphA central team of BJP MPs, including two union ministers, was on Friday stopped from visiting West Bengal's Sandeshkhali, which has been rocked by protests over alleged atrocities on villagers by TMC leaders.The police did not allow the BJP ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphThe Lok Sabha privileges committee issued summonses to the Bengal chief secretary, director general of police and three other officials based on a complaint filed by BJP Balurghat MP and state unit chief Sukanta Majumdar on Thursday.According to a ...
17 February 2024 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday issued summonses to two Trinamul Congress leaders, including MP and popular Bengali actor Dev, for questioning in connection with its probes into money laundering cases, an official said.The probe agency summoned TMC Ghatal ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate has summoned former Trinamul MP Mahua Moitra, party veteran Mukul Roy and actor turned MP Deepak Adhikari aka Dev to Delhi for questioning in separate cases.Mahua has been summoned to face questioning on February 19, Dev ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphTrinamul MP from Jadavpur, Mimi Chakraborty, submitted her resignation as a Member of Parliament to chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday and conveyed her intention to withdraw from all political engagements.“I have informed Didi about the obstacles I encountered ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday renewed her verbal attack on the Border Security Force (BSF) that guards the India-Bangladesh border as her party continued to exert pressure on the BJP over the deaths of four minor boys at ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphA 25-year-old woman, who had been missing since Wednesday evening, was found dead on Thursday morning in a maize field in Malda district.Her relatives and local residents alleged she was raped and killed.Police have recovered her body and are ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday alleged “RSS role” behind the unrest at Sandeshkhali, asserting “outsiders” had sinister plans of unleashing tension there during Saraswati Puja.She added that untoward incidents were averted as her government took stern steps to ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said this year's Union budget was an absolute "economic jugglery" by the Narendra Modi government citing a recent report of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that raised concerns over the official estimates of ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said the reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) were "full of lies", claiming no utilisation certificate (UC) was lying pending with the government during Trinamul's regime. “You (BJP) are asking us ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday slammed the BJP over the ongoing farmers' protest, claiming that the party is running a "government of Ravan" at the Centre, which has crossed all limits of civility.While speaking in the ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphA 25-year-old woman, who had been missing since Wednesday evening, was found dead on Thursday morning in a maize field in Malda district.Her relatives and local residents alleged she was raped and killed.Police have recovered her body and are ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday renewed her verbal attack on the Border Security Force (BSF) that guards the India-Bangladesh border as her party continued to exert pressure on the BJP over the deaths of four minor boys at ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphTrinamul MP from Jadavpur, Mimi Chakraborty, submitted her resignation as a Member of Parliament to chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday and conveyed her intention to withdraw from all political engagements.“I have informed Didi about the obstacles I encountered ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said the reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) were "full of lies", claiming no utilisation certificate (UC) was lying pending with the government during Trinamul's regime. “You (BJP) are asking us ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate has summoned former Trinamul MP Mahua Moitra, party veteran Mukul Roy and actor turned MP Deepak Adhikari aka Dev to Delhi for questioning in separate cases.Mahua has been summoned to face questioning on February 19, Dev ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphThe BJP MLAs on Thursday staged a walkout from the assembly demanding a statement from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sandeshkhali, which has witnessed protests over alleged atrocities on locals by ruling TMC leaders.Banerjee was not present at the ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphA team of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) on Thursday visited trouble-torn Sandeshkhali in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, which is now in the eye of a political storm.Led by the panel's Chairman Arun Halder, the ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused the BJP of fomenting trouble in restive Sandeshkhali and asserted that all necessary action has been taken to restore peace in the area.While speaking in the assembly, Banerjee said that ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphBJP leader Suvendu Adhikari was on Thursday prevented from going to disturbed Sandeshkhali by police.The vehicle, in which the Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly was travelling along with three other BJP legislators, was stopped by a posse ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphPopular Bengali actor and TMC MP Mimi Chakraborty on Thursday met party chief Mamata Banerjee and expressed her desire to quit as a parliamentarian, asserting that “politics is not my cup of tea”.Chakraborty, a first-time MP from Jadavpur, went ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday slammed the BJP over the ongoing farmers' protest, claiming that the party is running a "government of Ravan" at the Centre, which has crossed all limits of civility.While speaking in the ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate has summoned TMC leader and former Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra for questioning in a FEMA contravention case next week, official sources said Thursday. The 49-year-old politician has been asked to depose on February 19 at ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphThe NCW in its fact-finding report from West Bengal's Sandeshkhali said it has gathered disturbing testimonies from women of widespread fear and systematic abuse by both police officers and members of the Trinamool Congress. However, West Bengal Police on ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee may visit Punjab on February 21 and meet her Delhi and Punjab counterparts, Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann respectively, an official source said on Thursday. The Trinamul Congress supremo is expected to offer ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphSenior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday said he will march to Sandeshkhali, which has been witnessing protests over alleged atrocities on villagers by TMC leaders.His scheduled visit to Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district came a day after ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphThe BJP MLAs on Thursday staged a walkout from the assembly demanding a statement from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sandeshkhali, which has witnessed protests over alleged atrocities on locals by ruling TMC leaders.Banerjee was not present at the ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphA team of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) on Thursday visited trouble-torn Sandeshkhali in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, which is now in the eye of a political storm.Led by the panel's Chairman Arun Halder, the ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused the BJP of fomenting trouble in restive Sandeshkhali and asserted that all necessary action has been taken to restore peace in the area.While speaking in the assembly, Banerjee said that ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphBJP leader Suvendu Adhikari was on Thursday prevented from going to disturbed Sandeshkhali by police.The vehicle, in which the Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly was travelling along with three other BJP legislators, was stopped by a posse ...
16 February 2024 TelegraphAt the end of the three-day dharna against the BJP's "failed promises" on Wednesday, hill party Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatrantik Morcha (BGPM) announced a slew of protests to intensify its agitation.Anit Thapa, the president of the BGPM, on Wednesday said: ...
15 February 2024 TelegraphA rare scene of bonhomie unfolded in Siliguri on Wednesday as Trinamul veteran and city mayor Gautam Deb and BJP Darjeeling MP Raju Bista met, hugged each other, exchanged pleasantries and insisted on healthy relationships cutting across political lines.Deb, ...
15 February 2024 TelegraphA family of three — father, mother and child — were killed in a road accident at Charatala in Behrampore, on Wednesday.Hasanur Rahaman, 30, his wife Sima Khatun, 23, and their four-year-old son, Rahat Sheikh, died around 11am on ...
15 February 2024 TelegraphMultiple tribal organisations have started hitting the streets in at least eight Bengal districts against the Narendra Modi government to seek recognition of Sari and Sarna as religious codes in the census. Recognition of Sari and Sarna — the ...
15 February 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to name the lion and the lioness which reached the Bengal Safari Park near here from Tripura on February 12.Sources in the state forest department said they would send a proposal to the ...
15 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose has submitted a report to the Ministry of Home Affairs, blaming the law enforcers for working hand in glove with “rowdy elements” in Sandeshkhali where women have been protesting against alleged atrocities by ...
15 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee may visit Punjab on February 21 and meet her Delhi and Punjab counterparts, Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann respectively, an official source said on Thursday. The Trinamul Congress supremo is expected to offer ...
15 February 2024 TelegraphBJP president J P Nadda has constituted a six-member committee of party MPs, five of them being women, who will on Friday visit West Bengal's Sandeshkhali which has been rocked by protests over allegations of sexual assault of women ...
15 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar was injured on Wednesday after losing balance and falling on a car's bonnet, on which he was standing, while addressing reporters in North 24 Parganas district, following which he was taken to a ...
15 February 2024 TelegraphA family of three — father, mother and child — were killed in a road accident at Charatala in Behrampore, on Wednesday.Hasanur Rahaman, 30, his wife Sima Khatun, 23, and their four-year-old son, Rahat Sheikh, died around 11am on ...
15 February 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to name the lion and the lioness which reached the Bengal Safari Park near here from Tripura on February 12.Sources in the state forest department said they would send a proposal to the ...
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