Kolkata: A 55-year-old eatery owner, Jabbar Molla, was allegedly found murdered inside his establishment in the Shakshahar area of Bhangar on Tuesday morning. Molla’s son discovered the murder when he arrived at the shop to find his father’s decapitated ...
24 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Alipore Jail Museum took a significant stride towards becoming barrier-free and accessible with the addition of a Braille map, signage, display captions, and the installation of four ramps to make the facility disabled-friendly.The transformation was undertaken by CII ...
24 October 2024 Times of India123 Kolkata: Oral cholera vaccine (OCV) is being introduced at the community level in Bengal, one of the first for any state to take up such a project. Under a collaboration between ICMR-NIRBI (National Institute for Research in Bacterial ...
24 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed that no felling or transplantation of trees will take place for the Metro Rail project in the Maidan near Victoria Memorial Hall without the permission of the central empowered committee (CEC) under ...
24 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: IndiGo is set to start its second frequency to Bangkok from Kolkata from Nov 24. The second flight will initially be operated on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday. If the response is good, the airline will add flights ...
24 October 2024 Times of IndiaCyclone prep KOLKATA: The Bidhannagar municipal corporation and New Town Kolkata Development Authority are taking up preparatory measures for cyclone Dana. Apart from the usual preventive measures like keeping dedicated teams in stand by for any kind of emergency ...
24 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Parents of the 31-year-old R G Kar rape-murder victim on Tuesday sought an appointment with Union home minister Amit Shah and expressed the family’s “immense mental pressure and helplessness”. In an email, the father of the victim sought ...
23 October 2024 Times of IndiaRepresentative image NEW DELHI: Metro rail services in the north-south corridor were affected on Wednesday as a person allegedly jumped in front of a running train at Chandni Chowk Station, Kolkata an official said. Operations were underway to ...
23 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 21-year-old Jadavpur University undergraduate student, who went ‘missing’ from campus because he did not wish to pursue physics any more after passing his exams for two consecutive years, was rescued by police from Howrah station while he ...
23 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A junior doctor attached with Bangur Institute of Neurosciences (BIN) and another PGT of community medicine at the All India Institute of hygiene and Public Health have dedicated their postdoctoral theses to Abhaya, the rape-murder victim of R ...
23 October 2024 Times of IndiaRewpresentative image NEW DELHI: The deep depression over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a cyclonic storm named 'Dana' on Wednesday morning, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.It is expected to become a severe cyclone before crossing the ...
23 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Congress on Tuesday night announced its list of six candidates for the Nov 13 bypolls, ending its seat-sharing alliance with CPM since the 2021 assembly polls.The Left Front on Monday announced its list of candidates for five seats, ...
23 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal chief secretary Manoj Pant on Tuesday urged international players in the carbon black industry to invest in Bengal, where the demand for electric vehicle (EV) speciality components is on the rise.In keeping with this demand, leading players ...
23 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed that the state shall preserve the body of the woman who was allegedly murdered in a village under Patashpur police station earlier this month. The husband of the deceased had moved court ...
23 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bengal govt on Tuesday issued a formal order including junior doctors in the apex committee which will keep tabs not only on the security and infrastructure upgrade in state-run healthcare institutions, the bed referral system but also ...
23 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A day after the West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front (WBJDF) called off the fast-unto-death protest, they said they will continue their movement until justice is served for their colleague and their unmet demands from the state are addressed. ...
23 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Tram services, which were suspended during the pujas, resumed on Tuesday on all three routes, much to the relief and joy of passengers. This was possibly the longest suspension of movement of Asia’s oldest tram system — 13 ...
23 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Himadri Speciality Chemical Ltd (HSCL) is set to invest Rs 220 crore to double its speciality carbon black capacity to 1,30,000 million tonnes per annum (MTPA).The company is undertaking a brownfield expansion at its Singur facility, targeting an ...
23 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The much-anticipated airport metro link is expected to start operations in March 2025. The Yellow Line’s Noapara-Dum Dum Cantonment section recently received the safety nod from the Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) for commercial operations on the 3 ...
23 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A civic volunteer took her own life late on Saturday night in Rabindranagar near Parnasree, after her husband, a Kolkata Police home guard, allegedly forced her to undergo an abortion. Loknath Ghosh, the accused, was arrested from Diamond ...
23 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Syed Abbas-trained Ode To Nature won the Sukhoi Plate in New Delhi on Tuesday. It was a bad day for the racing public as favourites fell like nine pins.Delhi short results(With Inter-Venue Dividends)1: (1-7-3) Ode To Nature 1; ...
23 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The lingering presence of bamboo barricades and scaffoldings across Kolkata, even a week after the Durga Puja immersion, has raised concerns among residents as the city braces for a potential cyclone. The structures, which were erected for pandals ...
23 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The sharp rise in accidents on EM Bypass, which left three people dead and around 22 injured in the past 10 months — eight of them since Mahalaya on Oct 2 — has led to the decision to ...
23 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A pool car, ferrying 12 students home from school, caught fire around 1.45 pm at the crossing of Salt Lake First Crossroad and Salt Lake Bypass. All the children were unhurt after being evacuated by traffic cops and ...
23 October 2024 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: The body of a 7-year-old girl, who went missing last week, was found at Alipurduar’s Jaigon on Tuesday after her alleged rapist and killer was interrogated.The 50-year-old accused had fled to Nepal after the alleged crime. He was ...
23 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A four-day debate competition, organised by the Literary Society of Calcutta Boys' School (CBS) from Wednesday to Saturday, has garnered participation from more than 70 institutions across the country and globally.The Clifford Hicks Memorial International Inter-School Debate Competition ...
23 October 2024 Times of India1234 Kolkata: The city airport featured in the bomb hoax threat map for the third consecutive day on Tuesday following a post on an X handle that stated bombs were planted on 11 planes of Akasa Air, including a ...
23 October 2024 Times of India1234 Kolkata: The city airport featured in the bomb hoax threat map for the third consecutive day on Tuesday following a post on an X handle that stated bombs were planted on 11 planes of Akasa Air, including a ...
23 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Crackers must be burst only between 8pm and 10pm on Oct 31 this year. Those not adhering to this time period will face legal action. This follows the Supreme Cout directions that allows bursting of crackers for two ...
23 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Several city schools have started sensitising students to celebrate a green Diwali to save the environment. Some schools have engaged students to spread awareness by saying "no to crackers" and taking an oath not to burst them.Some of ...
23 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Several city schools have started sensitising students to celebrate a green Diwali to save the environment. Some schools have engaged students to spread awareness by saying "no to crackers" and taking an oath not to burst them.Some of ...
23 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Deepika Kumari made amends for missing out on a podium finish at the Paris Olympics by winning her fifth silver medal at the World Cup Final at Tlaxcala, Mexico, on Sunday.This was Deepika’s sixth medal in her ninth ...
23 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal’s Ranji Trophy campaign suffered a serious setback when their Ranji Trophy Elite Group ‘C’ match against Bihar was called off without a ball being bowled at the Bengal Cricket Academy (BCA) in Kalyani on Monday. Strangely no ...
23 October 2024 Times of India12 Siliguri: Tourists visiting the Hills can now get an aerial view of Mt Kanchenjunga as the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) is exploring plans to start helicopter tourism in Mirik, a picturesque town located around 49km from Siliguri. The ...
23 October 2024 Times of India12 Siliguri: Tourists visiting the Hills can now get an aerial view of Mt Kanchenjunga as the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) is exploring plans to start helicopter tourism in Mirik, a picturesque town located around 49km from Siliguri. The ...
23 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Former Karnataka defender Thomas Mathews, who played for East Bengal, passed away in Bengaluru on Monday. He was 71 and is survived by his wife Mary and two sons.Mathews, who excelled as a wing-back, shot into limelight when ...
22 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A criminal trial, even if it leads to an acquittal, inflicts “severe scars” upon the accused, the Calcutta High Court said while quashing proceedings against Hasin Jahan, estranged wife of cricketer Mohammed Shami, and two others on the ...
22 October 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The junior doctors’ agitation — robbed of the totemic “fast-unto-death” protest — will now have to look at a fresh start if it has to stay as “broad-based and massbased” as it was during the first few weeks ...
22 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The 8.4km-long VIP Road stretch from Ultadanga to the airport is all set to have brighter illumination by this Christmas with all the existing sodium vapour streetlights to be replaced with LED lights. The state public works department ...
22 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cyber cell of Kolkata Police has sent fresh notices to at least five X platform users, warning them for posting potentially harmful content “that can cause disharmony in society” and asking them to remove the posts at the ...
22 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city seems to be inching toward the much-awaited metro-airport connectivity with the completion of track laying between Dum Dum Cantontment and the airport. Once the corridor is functional, commuters will be able to zip through the Blue ...
22 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: IAF and Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) began their 12th Joint Military Training (JMT) exercise on Monday at Kalaikunda Air Force Station in West Midnapore district. The seven-week exercise will involve advanced aerial combat simulations and joint ...
22 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata/Digha: The state govt has issued an alert on cyclone Dana, which is likely to make landfall between Puri and Sagar Island on Thursday night and Friday morning. Directives have already been sent to all block officials from the ...
22 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a reversal of its last week’s decision, Kolkata Police has decided to test fireworks that will be sold at various baji bazars in the city next week. Earlier, Kolkata Police had said there was no need to ...
22 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The selection process for vice-chancellors for state universities completed its fourth day on Monday. Among others, candidates for Presidency University VC’s post appeared for interview during the day.In all, 91 candidates applied for Presidency University. Eighteen of them ...
22 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: This year, the number of temporary power connections provided by WBSEDCL and CESC for Durga Puja saw a modest increase compared to the previous year. WBSEDCL provided 50,556 connections, a 7% increase from 47,275 in 2023, while CESC ...
22 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A week before Dhanteras, the price of 24K gold in Kolkata crossed Rs 81,000 for 10 gm, raising speculations among buyers and jewellers in the city. In the past six days, the price of 24K gold in Kolkata ...
22 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Magan Singh-nursed Divine Dancer is in fine nick and can win the Sukhoi Plate in New Delhi on Tuesday. The daughter of Celestial Dancer, a winner of two races in as many starts, is in line for a ...
22 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL) has written to Kolkata Police, seeking a day-and-night block at Metropolitan on EM Bypass so that the last 25m of viaduct construction from the Metro station (officially called Beleghata) to Captain Bheri can ...
22 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A golden jackal, also known as the common jackal and protected under the country’s wildlife act, was rescued from the border of Shyampur and Bagnan in Howrah on Sunday night after roaming in the area for eight days ...
22 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Traffic police has set the ball rolling to switch to an ambitious but advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) based real-time traffic management system that will use algorithms to calculate the queue time and change signal timings accordingly.In ...
22 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: World No. 1 Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen will be back in India to play in the sixth edition of Tata Steel Chess India to be held here from Nov 13 to 17. The Norwegian won the tournament in his ...
22 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: There is no “absolute bar” in granting bail to a foreign national jailed in India without a valid visa, the Calcutta High Court said. After spending more than five years in custody for violation of sections under NDPS ...
22 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Protesting junior doctors withdrew their 17-day hunger strike two hours after a meeting with CM Mamata Banerjee and other govt seniors at Nabanna on Monday evening. West Bengal Junior Doctors' Front also decided not to go ahead with ...
22 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a rare case, a three-day-old baby with foetuses of twins in its abdomen, died a day after undergoing a surgery to remove the foetuses at NRS Medical College & Hospital (NRSMCH) on Sunday. The condition called foetus-in-fetu ...
22 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: With the pujas over, the state public works department (PWD) is planning to take up second phase drive to clear encroachments on govt land off VIP Road. Officials said that the drive to clear encroachment will be conducted ...
22 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) began their 12th Joint Military Training (JMT) exercise at Air Force Station Kalaikunda in West Bengal on Monday. The exercise will span the next seven ...
22 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Some puja committees, like Samajsebi Sangha and Chetla Agrani Club, have removed all pedestrian channels and filled up holes made on the road for temporary structures, clearing the way for traffic. But several roads and lanes in city ...
21 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: PSU lender UCO Bank on Saturday reported around 50% year-on-year growth in net profit of Rs 602.7 crore for the second quarter this fiscal, backed by over 45 % rise in operating profit.The Kolkata-based bank had registered Rs ...
21 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Mohammedan Sporting faced some home truth again as Kerala Blasters rode a second-half fightback to beat the Indian Super League debutants 2-1 at the Kishore Bharati Stadium on Sunday.The hosts went ahead in the 28th minute when Brazilian ...
21 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The ESI Hospital, Sealdah will begin OPD services from Monday from the space available in another building that was untouched by fire. But officials said it will be difficult to admit patients as the main block is still ...
21 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Several state-run schools, which are about to start back-to-back exams, will reopen classes — either online or offline — from Monday. Most of the private schools affiliated to West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and West Bengal Council ...
21 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Subal Dhali, a farmer from the Sundarbans, now works in a barber’s shop in Kolkata. His 2-bigha farmland went under saline water during the last cyclone, rendering it unfit for cultivation. Nayan Das from Odisha’s Kendrapara works in ...
21 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: In an incident of road rage, a private bus lost control and hit four pedestrians on Belgachhia Road after being chased by a biker and a few locals on Saturday night. Cops said of the four injured, Tausiq ...
21 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: N. Ravinder Singh-nursed Carnival Lady runs with a good chance of lifting the Raja Mahboob Karan Memorial Cup on Monday at Malakpet. The daughter of Translation has been running some good races and will be guided by Shivansh. ...
21 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A group of NGOs working in the districts of Bengal decided to use this year’s Durga Puja as a platform to develop ways to report missing children and women promptly.In one such intervention, Shakti Vahini, a ‘Child Marriage ...
21 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The West Bengal Pollution Control Board, in collaboration with the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), will assess the water quality of the Hooghly river to determine if it meets the required standards for bathing. This initiative parallels the Seine ...
21 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The junior doctors have done their own assessment on progress in their 10-point demand and have come out with its status. Even as the junior doctors have been critical of the govt not implementing their demands on the ...
21 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Police on Friday arrested two persons after the family of a young man — who has been missing for four days — lodged a complaint alleging that he was murdered. The arrested suspects, Mohammad Raju and Mohammad Ijaz, ...
21 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: An ex-servicemen society that provides majority of private security guards to state-run hospitals has started mandatory criminal antecedent checks for all personnel to be deployed in govt hospitals. The society has been asked by the state to increase ...
21 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Hospitals in the city are gearing up with measures to ensure patients were attended to during the cease-work call by doctors on Tuesday. Some have already deferred OPD appointments and surgeries that had been scheduled on that day. ...
21 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation has decided to introduce the unit area assessment (UAA) system for property tax, aiming to have a uniform tax structure in all its 41 wards. At present, the property tax structure at wards 1 ...
20 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Barely a few days after the Kolkata Police cyber cell busted an online gang that created fake websites of some of the popular online travel portals, cops claim the probe has now revealed that fake websites are being ...
20 October 2024 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: Junior doctors in West Bengal have been on a hunger strike for 16 days, seeking justice for a colleague who was allegedly raped and murdered at RG Kar Hospital. Despite Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's request to end ...
20 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: West Brook, piloted by Akshay Kumar, from Suleiman Attaollahi’s stable bagged the Fair Haven Trophy at Pune on Saturday.Pune short results(With Inter-Venue Dividends)1. (4-8-2) Moment Of Madness 1: Lightning Blaze 2: Mi Arion 3. 2. (9-7-10) Marlboro Man ...
20 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Suri and Balurghat district hospitals, along with MR Bangur Hospital, were declared the top winners as the state govt announced its Kayakalp Awards 2024-25 for health facilities in Bengal. While the Suri and Balurghat hospitals were joint winners, ...
20 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata traffic police has arrested a man who had tampered with his two-wheeler’s licence plate in order to avoid prosecution. Cops are investigating if the bike was used to commit crimes. On Sept 30, the owner ...
20 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: With Kali Puja and Diwali barely a couple of weeks away, the biggest cluster of wholesale and retail markets for lights in the heart of the city has started to get a steady flow of customers. Several markets ...
20 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A businessman from Dum Dum and his family were allegedly assaulted, and an attempt was made to molest his wife and disabled daughter on Oct 13 after the man refused to pay Rs 50,000 to a local politician ...
20 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Police from Rajarhat had to step in after several men, armed with saws and axes, rampantly chopped down mango trees in an orchard located in Kalikapur village under Patharghata gram panchayat on Saturday morning.Locals had alerted the police ...
20 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: ISL debutants Mohammedan Sporting Club will seek their first home win in the tournament when they host Kerala Blasters FC at the Kishore Bharati Stadium here on Sunday.The southern side in spite of being a poor traveller recording ...
20 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The shutdown of tram services since Oct 9 is the longest in recent years, with transport department employees and tram enthusiasts fearing that the govt may have used the break in operations, citing Durga Puja, to stop the ...
20 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: BSF personnel from 145 Battalion intercepted a drone, which was being smuggled into India by a Bangladeshi traveller while he was crossing the border. The drone, valued at Rs 90,000, was found in his bag.The traveller, possessing a ...
20 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A citizens group engaged in philanthropic activities and efforts to showcase Kolkata’s heritage has cleaned nearly three-fourth of the gravestones at the South Park Street Cemetery. The group that calls themselves Kolkata Restorers have also illuminated the main ...
20 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Following a probe into a typhoid and hepatitis A outbreak at a New Town highrise, the New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has found that there are multiple housing complexes that are coming up on the periphery of ...
20 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Even as Metro Railway GM P Uday Kumar Reddy couldn’t spell out the timeline for East-West Metro’s full run, engineers involved in the construction of the 2.5km Esplanade-Sealdah section hinted that trains may start running along the entire ...
20 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Port division of Kolkata Police seized around 1,000 kg of illegal crackers in the city on Friday and arrested two persons in two separate raids. “The SSPD team of Port division intercepted two vehicles in separate instances ...
20 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Authors, artists, researchers and book lovers gathered at Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi on Saturday to mark the birth centenary of Nirendranath Chakravarty, “the last emblem of Bengali Renaissance”. “Niren-da left us physically but he lives on with his sublime ...
20 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The family of Uttam Bardhan, the patient who died at ESI Hospital, Sealdah, on Friday, alleged the death was due to asphyxia from the fire.The family expressed their grievances to state fire services minister Sujit Bose as well ...
20 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee made a surprise call to fasting junior doctors on Saturday afternoon and set up a meeting with them for Monday in yet another stab at restoring normalcy in the state health sector.The nearly-one-hour interaction — ...
20 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Even as Metro Railway claims to have a 90km network by 2025 and another 40km added by 2027, the authorities couldn’t say when East-West Metro will run its full 16km after completing the troublesome 2.5 Esplanade-Sealdah section.Speaking on ...
19 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Prodded by CM Mamata Banerjee, the KMC engineering department had first set a July deadline for completion of work on the skywalk. This deadline was later revised to Aug-end, but that too was missed. “We have now completed ...
19 October 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The city is likely to be lashed by isolated heavy rain next week, courtesy an upper air cyclonic circulation which is “very likely” to form over North Andaman Sea around Sunday. Under its influence, a low-pressure area is ...
19 October 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The junior doctors on Friday gave a 72-hour ultimatum to the Bengal govt to implement their 10-point demands by Monday, failing which they threatened a daylong general health strike on Tuesday in state and private healthcare facilities. The ...
19 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The KMC doctor, who was arrested by police for allegedly wearing a ‘Justice for Abhaya’ badge while on duty at Carnival on Red Road, has filed a case in Calcutta HC challenging the alleged illegal detention and arrest. ...
19 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Dengue cases increased by 40% in some pockets of Salt Lake and Rajarhat-Gopalpur under the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) during Durga Puja. As many as 72 fresh cases have been reported in the last fortnight. From Jan to ...
19 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Metro will cover 90km by 2025 and more than 130km by 2027, Metro Railway general manager P Uday Kumar Reddy said on Friday while announcing the celebration plans for the rapid transit system’s 40th foundation day next ...
19 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The traffic cops will take the help of school students and local NGOs to try and sensitize motorists about the ill-effects of honking under overhead Metro stations where the sound gets amplified, causing severe distress to the kids ...
19 October 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The CBI, probing the rape and murder of the R G Kar Medical College PGT doctor, claimed in a Sealdah court that they have come across telephonic conversations and videos which “make it clear” that both ex-R G ...
19 October 2024 Times of India123 Kolkata: Six days past Bijoya Dashami, several Durga Puja pandals and various temporary structures constructed in the vicinity of these pandals continue to obstruct the streets and sidewalks across the city. These obstructions have led to the narrowing ...
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