Kolkata is set to experience heavy rainfall on July 14, 2025, with temperatures between 26.2°C and 29.2°C and humidity at 84%. The forecast indicates a 98% chance of rain throughout the day, accompanied by moderate winds up to 22.7 ...
14 July 2025 Times of India24-year-old psychologist reported a rape on a Kolkata business school campus, leading to the arrest of an MBA student KOLKATA: The 24-year-old psychologist, who was allegedly raped on the campus of a premier business management school in Kolkata, walked ...
14 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The West Bengal School Service Commission on Sunday extended the application deadline for the fresh selection test to July 21. Candidates from the 2016 recruitment panel have begun applying for the fresh test and the number of applicants ...
14 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The body of a Burrabazar garments trader, Mohammad Gilani (36), was found hanging from a tree beside National Highway 16, 50 metres away from the police camp in Salap, Domjur on Sunday morning.Howrah City Police sources revealed that ...
14 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Three days after the murder of Trinamool functionary Razzak Khan in Bhangar, police have arrested Mofazzel Molla, a TMC worker and a close aide of Khan. Molla was taken into custody by North Kashipur police on Sunday after ...
14 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Several city private hospitals have initiated measures to ensure that critical patients can reach on time during this rainy spell. Often unavailability of transport and traffic snarls result in delayed arrival of the patient at the hospital. ...
14 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The record-breaking rise in vehicle registrations showed no sign of slowing down in June with 7,794 vehicles added to city roads. The surge, led predominantly by two- and four-wheelers, signals an increasingly grim scenario for urban traffic management. ...
14 July 2025 Times of India123456 In the early summer of 1962, a stretch of marshland on the eastern edge of Kolkata began its transformation into what would become one of Bengal's most iconic urban experiments. Guided by the vision of then chief minister ...
14 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A gym trainer, Bidyut Dey alias Bittu, was arrested on Sunday for allegedly assaulting and attempting to rape a woman at his residence in Michael Nagar. Dey was taken into custody on Saturday following a complaint by the ...
14 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Due to lack of evidence, Calcutta High Court on Sunday acquitted a Murshidabad murder victim's husband and mother-in-law who were sentenced to life imprisonm-ent for the crime six years ago. The deceased was married to Ranjit Mondal for ...
14 July 2025 Times of IndiaDurgapur: PM Narendra Modi, who is scheduled to inaugurate a host of industrial projects in Durgapur on July 18, will address a public rally there as well.This will be Modi's first rally in the state after Bengal BJP elected ...
14 July 2025 Times of India12 Jalpaiguri: Fifty-year-old Cooch Behar resident Uttam Kumar Brajabashi, the member of the Rajbanshi community who received an NRC notice from an Assam foreigners tribunal, is likely to give his document submission hearing on Tuesday a miss. His lawyer, ...
14 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee will lead a protest against the tagging of Bengali-speaking migrant workers Bangladeshis, their illegal detentions and occasional deportations to Bangladesh by BJP-governed states, Trinamool said on Sunday. The rally will take place on July ...
14 July 2025 Times of India12 Suri: A Trinamool panchayat samiti member was shot dead late on Saturday in Birbhum's Sainthia, a few metres from his home. Police said three persons were being questioned in the case. One among them is a witness.Piyush Ghosh ...
14 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: ED on Saturday arrested two persons for their alleged role in money laundering by the Sahara Group. The accused —Vailaparampil Abraham and Jitendra Prasad Verma — played a "key role" in the money laundering process, the agency said. ...
14 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 52-year-old woman from Cooch Behar, who moved to Assam in 1991 after marrying a man from the state, has been forced to return after her plea to be included in NRC was rejected, Bengal migrant welfare board ...
14 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The IPO of Smartworks Coworking Spaces Ltd got a good response in the market. On Day 2 ending Friday, it garnered bids 1.2 times of the overall subscription.The demand was largely driven by non-institutional investors, while qualified institutional ...
14 July 2025 Times of India12 Darjeeling: It was a proud moment for Darjeeling on Sunday when son of the soil Harsh Vardhan Shringla — former foreign secretary and India's ambassador to the US — was nominated to Rajya Sabha by President Droupadi Murmu.An ...
14 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state govt is implementing a new ambulance service on national and state highways, which one can avail by dialling 108, to assist trauma victims in reaching hospitals swiftly. The initiative will deploy 110 ambulances along highways, comprising ...
14 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The solution to the mystery over the alleged rape of a young psychologist in one of the country's top B-schools may lie in a sprawling two-storied house located in a semi-urban area about 12 km from the management ...
14 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The nine-member Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the alleged rape on the management institute campus, began work on Sunday with ‘zero help' from the complainant. Separate teams of investigators and forensic officials reached the campus where a ...
14 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A south Kolkata school has started a probe into a complaint of seniors bullying and sexually abusing a middle-school student. The incident happened last Monday during the tiffin break. A Class VI student was attacked by five senior ...
14 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: In the wake of the rape allegation emerging from a premier management institute, the authorities are engaging with the students to ensure their safety and well-being and make them feel that they are being heard.A senior official ...
14 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: A one-take short film on the audition of an actress in Iran (‘Spasm') and a documentary on a trafficked woman-turned-activist (‘Fatima') have won the top awards at 8th South Asian Short Film Festival organized by the Federation ...
14 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: In an unusual turn of trends this monsoon, egg prices shot up, while chicken prices dropped significantly across Kolkata and its fringes. This reversal in the cost of two of the most consumed protein sources left both ...
13 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Trinamool on Saturday strongly protested Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma's statement about the picking of Bengali as mother tongue in census documents and said it was BJP's agenda to brand Bengalis Bangladeshis, declare them stateless and dump ...
13 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata is set to experience heavy rainfall on July 13, 2025, with precipitation chances at 90% and expected rainfall of 25.32 mm. The temperature will range between 33.2°C and 27.1°C, accompanied by 80% humidity and overcast conditions throughout the ...
13 July 2025 Times of IndiaA 24-year-old psychologist accused a management student in Kolkata of rape, leading to his arrest. However, in a surprising turn, the woman's father later claimed that nothing happened and alleged that police pressured his daughter to file the complaint. ...
13 July 2025 Times of IndiaBehrampore/Chinsurah/Kaliganj: Packed in ill-ventilated small rooms, harassed for one document after another to prove Indian citizenships, phones seized for "verification", two meals a day of flattened rice (chiwda) and jaggery — horrors from days spent in the makeshift detention ...
13 July 2025 Times of India123 The woman wrote in her complaint, "He suddenly grabbed my hair during our conversation. I slapped him in defence but he then grabbed my neck and hand. I do not remember anything after that — where I was ...
13 July 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: The KMC on Saturday deployed earth movers to pull down shops and other structures that encroached on a govt plot on Prince Anwar Shah Road near Lord's crossing. The plot, owned by the state information and cultural ...
13 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: East Bengal club has embarked on an ambitious mission to take the beautiful game to different parts of the country and scout for young talents through a grassroots programme. The initiative — named East Bengal School of Excellence ...
13 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Tour operators and travel agents are urging clients to avoid travelling west this Durga Puja and winter and instead look at destinations in Southeast Asia, the Far East and Australia.The advice stems from the unprecedented situation that many ...
13 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: ‘My Comrade', a short film competing at the 8th South Asian Film Festival, is the only entry, which is set against the backdrop of armed rebellion in Jangal Mahal. The film explores a tribal youth's forbidden love, ...
13 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A suspended TMCP functionary finally lodged a complaint at the Sonarpur Police Station on Saturday, days after going live on television, alleging circulation of her fake, AI-manipulated images, aimed at maligning her personal and political image. Though she ...
13 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bidhannagar Police on Friday arrested a 26-year-old man from Ahmedabad for his alleged role in a Rs 1.5-crore cryptocurrency investment fraud, registered in 2023. The accused, Harshik Mukeshbhai Patel, was apprehended from Chandkheda in Gandhinagar district in Gujarat. ...
13 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Metro services on the North-South (Blue) line were disrupted for an hour on Saturday following a suicide bid at Central station. Though truncated services were operated, several commuters were hassled as no trains were available in the Maidan-Girish ...
13 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The deck surface of Howrah Bridge requires replacement, and some of the joints need overhauling, a health audit of the iconic bridge has revealed. Sensors and other digital devices will soon be installed to enable real-time monitoring ...
13 July 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: Retired schoolteacher Mousumi Banerjee from Siliguri, former banker Goutam Roychowdhury from Behala, and guitarist Neeta Dutta of Kasba didn't know each other even two months ago. Bound by a common thread and a new calling, when the ...
13 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Rabindra Sarobar, the place where many go for a stroll in the morning or evening is itself not in the pink of health, a recent bathymetric study of the lake that measures a waterbody's depth has revealed. A ...
13 July 2025 Times of India12 Kharagpur: Four people were killed early Saturday after a private SUV collided with a truck on NH-16 between Kharagpur and Balasore. The victims have been identified as Kartik Chandra Lahiri (60), Atanu Guha (42), Biswajit Mondal (48), and ...
13 July 2025 Times of India12 Khejuri: The deaths of two persons under mysterious circumstances on the sidelines of a local function at Khejuri in East Midnapore on Friday night have sparked a tussle among rival political parties. The bodies of Sujit Das, 23, ...
13 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A group of Indian doctors with Kolkata-based dermatologist, Koushik Lahiri, as its founding chairman has been felicitated by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), London for their work against steroid abuse in fairness and other skincare products, ...
13 July 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: A hurried road repair drive conducted by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation roads department, especially on the roads that were dug up for a road smoothening project before the monsoon, poses a threat to motorists and bikers. Several ...
13 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The West Bengal govt has launched an ambitious greening campaign as part of Banmahotsav 2025, with a goal of planting two saplings per person in urban areas and five per person in rural areas. The initiative, described ...
13 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Researchers from the Kolkata-headquartered Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) discovered four new species of microscopic parasitic wasps. These wasps, belonging to the genus Idris Förster (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae), were found in West Bengal and are primary egg parasitoids of ...
13 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The rape allegation at the premier management institute that has 75 guards and 80 CCTV cameras to secure the 135-acre campus fenced itself in further on Saturday with the institute administration restricting delivery persons at the gate ...
13 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The road repairs on VIP Road that started on Friday night led to severe straffic jams throughout the day on Saturday. Cops issued a caution about more traffic chaos on Sunday as well, particularly around the airport, ...
13 July 2025 Times of IndiaA second-year student at a Kolkata management institute has been arrested for allegedly raping a female acquaintance inside the boys' hostel. The survivor reported being invited for a counseling session, then allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted KOLKATA: Barely a ...
12 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The Kolkata Traffic Police has received Rs 1.1 crore from the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) on Friday to buy 30 new machines for measuring air pollution. This acquisition will more than double the city's capacity to monitor ...
12 July 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: PWD began urgent repairs on the stretch between AAI Gate and Haj House on the city-bound flank of VIP Road on Friday night.Incessant rain has severely damaged multiple stretches of VIP Road, leaving them battered and riddled ...
12 July 2025 Times of IndiaAccording to AQI.in, this weather data represents the beginning of a significant seasonal shift in Kolkata's climate pattern.Kolkata is set to experience a typical monsoon day on July 12, 2025, with temperatures ranging between 27.5°C and 34.5°C, accompanied by ...
12 July 2025 Times of IndiaMalda: A 35-year-old Trinamool Congress worker was hacked to death, allegedly by a TMC panchayat member, at a birthday party at English Bazaar on Thursday night. Three others, including the victim's wife, were hospitalised with wounds. The suspect was ...
12 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal police have carried out around 750 verifications in one and a half months for migrant workers from the state detained across the country. With no data available from states regarding the detained migrant workers, police had to ...
12 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The probe into the murder of TMC Bhangar neta Razzak Khan has hit a roadblock with no CCTV coverage at the spot of the crime, said sources. Police, however, have found two witnesses and information gained from them ...
12 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court, in its judgment on pleas challenging a single bench order barring candidates deemed ‘tainted' from participating in SSC's fresh recruitment process, was critical of the state for arguing in their favour and observed that it ...
12 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday advised people against going to places "where Muslims are in a majority", and also referred to Bengali-speaking migrants in New Delhi's Jai Hind Colony as "Rohingya Muslims". The comments drew ...
12 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Bengal police have carried out around 750 verifications in one and a half months for migrant workers from the state detained across the country. With no data available from states regarding the detained migrant workers, police had ...
12 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata/Berhampore: Odisha has released 403 out of 447 Bengali-speaking migrants it had detained, suspecting them of being illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, over the past three days. Most of the Bengali-speaking migrant workers have been released, said Trinamool MP Samirul ...
12 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: In the wake of repeated fire incidents in the city, and especially after the Burrabazar fire incident, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has identified 92 deep tube wells that will be accessed and used by the fire ...
12 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The Kolkata Police's SOS to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) after a 72-hour severe commuter ordeal at Chingrighata crossing and near Captain Bheri on EM Bypass was finally heard on Friday, with the civic body completing necessary ...
12 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Ticking off the National Commission for Women (NCW) for its "interference" in an ongoing criminal investigation, Calcutta High Court on Friday told the commission clearly: "You can carry on your own investigations, but how can you ask ...
12 July 2025 Times of IndiaHowrah: A stray dog was electrocuted by a toto inside a govt housing complex on Andul Road in Howrah on Friday morning, sparking outrage among residents and animal lovers. The incident led to the detention of the toto driver, ...
12 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Salt Lake Bypass stretch connecting Sector V and EM Bypass is set to get a new look before Durga Puja. The Nabadiganta Industrial Township Authority (NDITA) is undertaking beautification work on the stretch with illusion art, painting ...
12 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a bid to tighten surveillance and prevent crimes, Bidhannagar Police have directed all hotels, guest houses, and luxury accommodations in Salt Lake, New Town, Rajarhat, Lake Town and surrounding areas to submit daily guest lists to the ...
12 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: G Satheesh Reddy, the former chairman of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), called upon the scientific community to develop advanced defence systems and technologies that adversaries do not possess. Reddy, also a former scientific adviser to ...
12 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bangla Sahayata Kendras (BSKs), which act as a single-window platform offering free assistance in applying to schemes, achieved a Rs 1,000 crore milestone in digital transactions.CM Mamata Banerjee posted on X: "This milestone underscores the growing public trust ...
12 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday directed railways to inspect its land in Birbhum from which large quantities of black stone were extracted. Black stone is a minor mineral that is extracted from the earth and crushed into stone ...
12 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Tapan Maity from Jharkhali promotes collective farming and manages high-yield fish culture, benefiting the local farming community. Former software engineer-turned-fish farmer Deepu Sasidharan from Ernakulam, Kerala, specialises in Pearlspot seed rearing and seabass farming. Pushpa Devi, a homemaker ...
12 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday dismissed a contempt application moved by former Trinamool MLA Arabul Islam against the state. Islam had claimed in his May, 2024 plea that the state had not given him proper security cover ...
12 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday asked the Union ministry of home affairs to submit a report on the recent deportation of six people, including children, to Bangladesh by the Delhi Police. The court set a deadline of Wednesday ...
12 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A south Kolkata resident has found that a couple used his Aadhaar card, ownership records of his flat in an EM Bypass condo, without his knowledge and uploaded the documents on the govt portal as a fake ...
12 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A group of Indian doctors with Kolkata-based dermatologist, Koushik Lahiri, as its founding chairman has been felicitated by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), London for their work against steroid abuse in fairness and other skincare products, ...
12 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A BSF soldier was critically injured in a violent confrontation with suspected Bangladeshi smugglers at the Tarali-1 border outpost in Swarupnagar, North 24 Parganas between late Thursday and early on Friday. The confrontation happened after BSF personnel spotted ...
12 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Twenty-three companies, including Reliance and L&T, have started construction of their buildings at Bengal Silicon Valley (BSV), an upcoming tech hub in New Town, while NTT, ST Telemedia and CtrlS data centres are on the verge of ...
12 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The Kumartuli ghat in north Kolkata is set to be restored and a 300-metre stretch along the riverfront will be developed into a promenade. The ambitious project by Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, Kolkata, (SMPK) will be funded ...
12 July 2025 Times of India123456 Kolkata: Calcutta University's fact-finding team will examine eight-year-old anomalies at the law college in south Kolkata, where a first-year student was raped. They are also trying to find out how Zaib Ahmed, one of the accused, gained entry ...
12 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: Ahead of the Global Tiger Day on July 29, two tiger rescue teams were felicitated in the city on Friday.While one of the teams led the massive operation to rescue tigress Zeenat that kept foresters on their ...
12 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Adani Group is set to develop the historic Kumartuli Ghat. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, Kolkata (SMPK) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) for the redevelopment, restoration and beautification of the ...
12 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: A Bengali film, screened at Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) last year and based on what happens when relics of an ancient temple get unearthed underneath a mosque before an election, has been caught in a censorship ...
12 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: After two days of incessant rain, the city received short spells of showers on Thursday. The showers could remain infrequent till the weekend since the low pressure that triggered 87.5 mm of rainfall between Monday and Tuesday evening ...
11 July 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Hearing two habeas corpus pleas on Bengali-speaking migrants illegally detained by Odisha police as suspected Bangladeshis, Calcutta High Court on Thursday said it could not remain a "silent spectator" and the constitution allowed it to "address violations of ...
11 July 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A 62-year-old central Kolkata trader, and his 31-year-old son were allegedly assaulted by a parking attendant outside a private bank branch located on Vivekananda Road following a dispute over parking fees on Wednesday morning.According to police reports, Anil ...
11 July 2025 Times of IndiaThis weather report is based on data from AQI.in, providing comprehensive coverage of Kolkata's monsoon conditions.Kolkata is set to experience a rainy day on July 11, 2025, with temperatures ranging between 26.8°C and 33.5°C, accompanied by high humidity and ...
11 July 2025 Times of IndiaMidnapore: Two professors at Vidyasagar University were removed from their exam duties after a history question paper from the sixth semester referred to revolutionaries as ‘terrorists'. Among the two, one is the UG board of studies chairman and the ...
11 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A fledgling illegal parking mafia, involving a few influential locals and a section of cops, appears to be at the heart of the issue which led to truck vandalism by cops at New Alipore on Tuesday night.Thirty ...
11 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Indian Museum has made entry free for school groups to encourage more students to visit the oldest and largest museum in South Asia.Entry did use to be free for student groups, but in 2019, the museum introduced ...
11 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Big shopping malls would come up in each district headquarter of Bengal, CM Mamata Banerjee announced on Thursday while inaugurating leather and cottage industry centre Shilpanna in Alipore."We are setting up big shopping malls in every district headquarters. ...
11 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: After a gap of nearly eleven months, Kolkata is set to have direct flight connectivity with Nepal's capital, Kathmandu. Travellers between Kolkata and Kathmandu currently have to travel via Delhi. Buddha Air, Nepal's largest private airline, will ...
11 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) sewerage and drainage department has decided to expedite the construction of the Hrishikesh Park drainage pumping station. The civic body hopes to make it functional, at least partially, by Sept, keeping in ...
11 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: The survivor's counsel on Thursday informed Calcutta High Court that the family was satisfied with Kolkata Police's probe in the law college gan-grape case. They, however, wanted to see the progress report in the ongoing probe.Multiple PILs ...
11 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The drop in temperature, triggered by consistent rain over the past week, has led to another cough-and-cold epidemic in the city, with hundreds suffering from upper respiratory tract infection and persistent cough. With the maximum temperature dipping to ...
11 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Traffic at Chingrighata, particularly cars heading from Salt Lake Bypass to EM Bypass, crawled on Wednesday afternoon as craters on a 15-m stretch at the intersection forced motorists to brake and progress at a snail's pace. A similar ...
11 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee will celebrate its 30th year with a four-day festival from Saturday, including fashion shows by sex workers and transgender persons, cultural programmes and panel discussions at Rabindra Kanan."Since its inception on July 12, ...
11 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: A TMC neta was shot and hacked to death around 500m from his Bhangar Chaltaberia home on Thursday night. Razzak Khan was returning home after a party meeting when the attackers shot him multiple times, and as ...
11 July 2025 Times of India1234 Kolkata: There are 72 days still left for Mahalaya but Durga has started her journey — not from the heavens, rather beneath the earth. It is not the deity but the tunnel boring machine S1410 — used for ...
11 July 2025 Times of India12 Kolkata: Padma Shri Sujoy Kumar Guha was an electrical engineer who developed RISUG, the world's only reversible male contraceptive drug. But Indian Council of Medical Research turned down his plea to conduct clinical trials for a drug, developed ...
11 July 2025 Times of India12 Jalpaiguri: Recently, a dog that was found abandoned near Mahakal inside Gorumara National Park was rescued by the members of a local NGO. The dog, a Rottweiler, was first noticed by travellers, and later, SPOAR — the NGO ...
11 July 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Police verification for govt jobs must be completed within 30 days, chief secretary Manoj Pant said in a formal order on Wednesday. The development came after numerous complaints that the delay in police verification was affecting the training ...
11 July 2025 Times of India123 Kolkata: ‘Monojit Dada is in our hearts — team MM', reads a wall graffiti in a prominent spot at the law college where a first-year student was raped. It may not have seemed this incongruous prior to June ...
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