A booth level officer (BLO) was found hanging inside a primary school in West Bengal's Murshidabad district, with his family alleging that excessive SIR work pressure led him to take his own life, police said on Sunday. The death of ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphBJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday demanded imprisonment of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, DGP Rajeev Kumar and senior police officer Manoj Verma, accusing them of obstructing an ED raid at premises linked to political consultancy firm I-PAC, and violating ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphFormer students and teachers of Presidency University’s celebrated physics department have expressed opposition to the department’s decision to admit undergraduate students based on Plus-II board scores. Many said that the move could dilute the quality of student selection, and that ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphA festival to celebrate the Hooghly, which aims to draw more people towards the river, was held at the Prinsep Ghat on Saturday. Despite the Hooghly flowing by Calcutta’s western boundary, both authorities and citizens have neglected the river for ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphThe parents of Abhaya, the junior doctor who was raped and killed inside RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in August 2024, on Saturday announced their decision to set up a non-profit, semi-charitable hospital at Krishnanagar in Nadia district, ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphThe Trinamool Congress–run civic board of the Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) will unveil a statue of Swami Vivekananda at Jhankar More, a prominent intersection in the city, on January 12 to mark the birth anniversary of the revered monk. “₹ ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission has appointed four senior IAS officers to the Bengal CEO’s office as “special roll observers” ahead of the hearings of voters whose filled-in enumeration forms show “logical discrepancies”. These hearings, of about 40 lakh voters in the ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate and the Bengal government on Saturday simultaneously approached the Supreme Court over the central agency’s raid on I-PAC and chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s alleged interference, which have electrified the poll-bound state. In its plea, the ED has ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee, in a letter to chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on Saturday, said asking Nobel laureate Amartya Sen to appear before poll officials to establish his credentials as part of the ongoing special intensive revision ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphThe Darjeeling district CPM launched its “Adhikar Raksha Abhiyan (campaign to protect rights)” in the hills on Saturday. Saman Pathak, the secretary of the party’s Darjeeling district committee, said the campaign was a part of the CPM’s broader “Bangla Bachao ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphResidents of Malda district's Narayanpur, Kismatpur and some other villages in Mojampur panchayat under Kaliachak police station limits have decided to form surveillance teams to curb the activities of narcotics peddling rackets and assist police in their fight against ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphAbhishek Banerjee said on Saturday that 70 people had died in Bengal because of the special intensive revision (SIR) of the voter list, which, according to him, was a part of the BJP’s attempt to harass the people of ...
11 January 2026 TelegraphAmyt Datta has never been one to dramatise his presence. At 65, with over five decades of playing behind him, Kolkata’s resident guitar god continues to perform regularly, staying rooted in a sound shaped by the rock music of ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphBangla ZEE5 Friday launched the title track of its upcoming web series Kaalipotka, offering a glimpse into the dark and unapologetically bold world of the show directed by Abhirup Ghosh. The track, titled Kaalipotka, features singer Jojo Mukherjee on vocals, ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphData from a desktop computer was midway through a transfer when Mamata Banerjee walked into I-PAC’s Salt Lake office on Thursday morning, Enforcement Directorate (ED) sources said. The chief minister was cordial in her interaction, while ED personnel present at ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphA zoology student who would have quit midway had it not been for an organisation that supported her education, went back to her alma mater to volunteer for them. Nahid Jawed, 20, helped other parents from backgrounds similar to ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphSeveral thoroughfares in Calcutta that were disturbed to lay underground utility lines, some of which are being laid for the first time, are now either filled with the soil that was removed or with crushed bricks. The roads continue to ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphJadavpur University has to intensify its efforts to reach out to former students to attract significant funds, the varsity’s vice-chancellor said at a meeting with an alumni platform on Friday. At a meeting organised by a US-based alumni foundation on ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphA rally by members of the BJP Yuva Morcha protesting chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s alleged snatching of files during Enforcement Directorate raids and a supposed attempt to stonewall a corruption probe brought traffic along Chowringhee and Esplanade to a ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphAs Mamata Banerjee led a protest rally on Friday, many bystanders stood on the pavement for a glimpse or were stranded as public transport ground to a halt. They were not Trinamool rallyists, but common people. Some felt Mamata ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Friday cited the right to self-defence to justify her actions from the day before when she barged in during Enforcement Directorate raids on I-PAC, her party’s poll strategist, and walked away with “sensitive” documents. The BJP was ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphThe Bengal forest department will conduct a tiger census in the Gorumara National Park and the Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary in Jalpaiguri district simultaneously for the first time from January 18 to 20. The tiger will be counted in the Neora ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphA person died and two were injured after a wild boar attacked them on a tea plantation at Phulatipara in the Rajganj block of Jalpaiguri on Thursday. The deceased is Ratia Oraon, 48. Bablu Oraon was discharged after receiving basic ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphSuvendu Adhikari said on Friday that a Sandeshkhali-kind of incident would have happened if Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials had attempted to stop chief minister Mamata Banerjee from taking away files from the residence and office of I-PAC chief Pratik ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphAbhishek Banerjee on Friday accused the Narendra Modi government of weaponising central investigation agencies to intimidate political opponents and force them into submission ahead of the elections in his first reaction to the Enforcement Directorate (ED)'s raids on I-PAC, ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphBJP MP Manoj Tigga has sought the direct transfer of over ₹300 crore, which was allocated by the Centre for the socio-economic uplift of tea garden workers in Bengal and remains unutilised because of the Mamata Banerjee government’s alleged ...
10 January 2026 TelegraphThe twin Shiva temples in Boral on the outskirts of Kolkata, briefly seen in Satyajit Ray’s iconic film Pather Panchali, have been restored following a conservation initiative focused on Bengal’s terracotta temple tradition. Situated in Paschim Nischintapur in Rajpur ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphThe quarter-finals line-up of the Vijay Hazare Trophy has been completed. While Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh have qualified for the last-eight stage from Group A, Group B saw Uttar Pradesh and Vidarbha make it to the next stage. Punjab and ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate and I-PAC both approached Calcutta High Court on Thursday. The ED alleged that the state government, led by the chief minister, was hampering an ongoing investigation by the agency. I-PAC accused the central agency of exceeding its mandate ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphAn IIT Bombay alumnus who once worked with Deloitte emerged as a central figure on Thursday, just months ahead of the Assembly elections. Until Thursday morning, Pratik Jain was largely known only to those closely tracking Bengal’s political machinery. That ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphHomes reduced to cinders, the residents of a colony in Anandapur spent a significant portion of Thursday sifting through the ruins for anything that endured the inferno that ravaged over 50 houses the night before. They did not have much ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphThe city had a nearly perfect January day on Thursday, marred only by the polluted air. The morning was warm and pleasant, while the night was cold. The minimum temperature at Alipore was 11.6 degrees, up from 10.3 degrees the ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) has pushed back the counselling process for candidates recommended for teaching positions at the higher secondary level (Classes XI and XII) in government-aided schools. The counselling, which was earlier scheduled to begin in mid-January, has ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphThe Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has announced a counselling and resilience education fellowship programme for school counsellors. The program aims to enhance the council's helpline service, scheduled to be launched during the ICSE (Class X) and ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur has repaired the battered roads on the campus after students raised concerns about their condition. A student body that surveyed the roads across the campus and posted pictures of the battered roads on its Facebook page in late ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphStudents of the CL Block-based music school Medhabi hosted a cultural evening to commemorate the 80th birthday of their teacher, Rabindrasangeet exponent Ashis Bhattacharya. The chief guest at the show was Sudin Chattopadhyay, former president of the state council of ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphA fire broke out in the subdivisional officer’s (SDO) office at Hill Cart Road in Siliguri on Wednesday night, prompting the Darjeeling district administration to clarify that documents and other items related to the special intensive revision of the ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) has approached the Calcutta High Court, seeking a CBI investigation into the role of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, senior police officials and others for allegedly obstructing its raids in Kolkata against political consultancy ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphThe CBI on Thursday filed an appeal before a division bench of Calcutta High Court, challenging an order passed by a single bench which had directed the transfer of the probe in four cases against Suvendu Adhikari to a ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphMithun Bhagat, a fertiliser trader in the Chopra block of North Dinajpur district, was arrested by officers of the Siliguri commissionerate of the CGST and central excise early on Thursday for allegedly evading GST to the tune of ₹5.5 ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphTrinamool Congress MP and national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday tore into the saffron ecosystem's alleged “anti-Bengali” narrative while stressing the harassment and torture faced by Bengal's migrant workers in BJP-ruled states to drum up support in Malda. On ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphA 65-year-old resident of Raiganj, North Dinajpur district, was found hanging from a tree near his house on Thursday morning. His family members called it suicide, blaming his mental stress because of the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of the ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphResidents of Natunpara, a village in the Alipurduar 1 block, were caught by surprise early on Thursday morning after a one-horned rhino from the Jaldapara National Park strayed into the locality. A forest department source said the rhino lost its ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee said on Thursday that the raids by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on the premises linked to I-PAC betrayed the BJP’s desperation to wrest Bengal, but sources in her party said the Centre had actually handed the chief ...
9 January 2026 TelegraphThe organisers of the International Kolkata Book Fair have sought an increased police presence at the event, anticipating potential disturbances due to the unrest in neighbouring Bangladesh. They have requested the state’s home department to deploy plainclothes police at the ...
8 January 2026 TelegraphThe minimum temperature in the city was 10.3° Celsius on Wednesday, almost identical to the previous day’s 10.2°, and still well below normal. Dum Dum recorded a minimum of 9.8°, while Barrackpore was colder at 9°. Yet many Calcuttans felt that ...
8 January 2026 TelegraphAnother new year has arrived, but Calcutta airport’s long-standing problems show no sign of easing. Beacon-fitted cars continue to be parked along the kerbside outside the terminal’s arrival gates, forcing passengers — many of them elderly, carrying luggage or using ...
8 January 2026 TelegraphThe high court on Wednesday rejected a list of 1,806 candidates classified as “tainted” for schoolteacher roles, released by the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC). Justice Amrita Sinha instructed the SSC to compile a new list that must contain ...
8 January 2026 TelegraphSt Xavier’s College on Park Street plans to introduce an MSc in artificial intelligence in 2028, said Father Dominic Savio, the principal of the college, on Wednesday. He said that the emphasis is on innovative courses, particularly AI, for their ...
8 January 2026 TelegraphAir quality deteriorated further on Wednesday as cold weather continued to grip the city, with most monitoring stations reporting “poor” or “very poor” air through the day. Of the seven air quality monitoring stations in Calcutta, one reported “very poor”, ...
8 January 2026 TelegraphPresidency University will conduct its undergraduate admissions independently, ending its decade-old arrangement with the state JEE board. All 16 departments told the admissions committee on Wednesday that they want to either admit students through department-led tests or based on (Plus-II) ...
8 January 2026 TelegraphRent for top grade office in Calcutta went up by 16 per cent in 2025, highest in percentage terms among the leading cities in the country, as occupancy levels rose amidst a lack of fresh supply of office properties. A ...
8 January 2026 TelegraphAround 11.30am, tennis players warmed up for a veterans’ tournament at South Club on Woodburn Park Road. Several wore full-length track pants instead of shorts. At a PSU bank in Behala, long queues usually form at the counters as soon ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphA fire ripped through a slum settlement in eastern Kolkata’s Nonadanga area on Wednesday evening, leaving several families without shelter, officials said. The blaze broke out at the Matangini Colony slum under Anandapur police station around 6.20 pm. Within minutes, ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Bengal government to address a long-standing pay parity dispute involving part-time higher secondary school teachers. The state government now has four months to issue a “detailed reasoned order” regarding the teachers’ claims for ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphTrinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to extend the ongoing SIR process in Bengal beyond January 15, alleging that the drive would lead to massive disenfranchisement as the Election Commission has purportedly found “logical ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphTrinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday flew in from Calcutta to Rampurhat on a helicopter sent by Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren from Ranchi after clearance had been delayed for the chopper that was to have ferried him ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission on Tuesday held a video conference with district election officers (DEOs) to discuss arrangements made for serving hearing notices on 95 lakh voters whose enumeration forms for the special intensive revision (SIR) had “logical discrepancies”. Sources said ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphDomicile certificates submitted as documentary evidence during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) hearings in West Bengal will not be considered valid at present, a senior poll official said on Wednesday. Voters who have already submitted the domicile certificates may be ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphThe West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) on Wednesday moved to calm a growing political storm after hearing summonses were issued to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, Indian cricketer Mohammed Shami and Bengali actor-turned-TMC MP Dev as part of the ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphWith just three months to go for the assembly polls, the West Bengal BJP on Wednesday constituted its long-delayed state committee, a carefully weighted organisational reset that seeks to balance old loyalties, contain internal rivalries and ring-fence key electoral ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphAbhishek Banerjee, the Trinamool general secretary and Diamond Harbour MP, met the families of two BJP workers who were arrested in Maharashtra’s Bhiwandi as alleged Bangladeshi infiltrators at their residence in South Dinajpur’s Tapan on Wednesday. “They were branded as ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphA booth-level officer (BLO) in West Bengal’s Malda district died on Wednesday, triggering a political exchange over the workload linked to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The deceased, Samprita Choudhury Sanyal, was serving as the BLO ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission on Wednesday served a notice to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen in connection with the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, seeking a hearing of the 92-year-old economist on January 16 at ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphA tea worker was attacked by a leopard on a plantation in the Khasbusty area of Jalpaiguri’s Nagrakata block on Tuesday. A source reported that around 10.30am, Chaiti Oraon was plucking tea leaves when a leopard pounced on her and ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphA platform of state university teachers’ association on Tuesday alleged that the absence of full-term vice-chancellors in 11 state-aided universities has triggered an academic and administrative stalemate on those campuses. The teachers said that implementing the four-year undergraduate programmes under ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphJadavpur University has asked the head of its English department to go on leave until the end of January while investigations into the allegations of harassment of two students during exam invigilation are underway. Vice-chancellor Chiranjib Bhattacharjee took the decision ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphThe Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta, council has appointed another officiating director after a search-and-selection committee failed to select a full-term director, despite initiating the process in May 2025. After the tenure of officiating director Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay expired on December ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphGeriatricians are recommending that the elderly population of the city avoid outdoor activities in the early morning and late evening. It is also suggested that they perform free-hand exercises to prevent muscle stiffness and remain vigilant to avoid falling ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphCalcutta Boys’ School has decided to start classes an hour later from Wednesday due to the cold. In many schools, a significant number of students, particularly in primary classes, were absent on Tuesday because of the chill. Starting Wednesday, Calcutta ...
7 January 2026 TelegraphThe four-month-long deadlock at Subarnapur, a tea garden in the Kranti block of Jalpaiguri district, finally came to an end on Monday. The locked office of the tea garden was opened, bringing relief to around 200 tea workers and ...
6 January 2026 TelegraphCricketer Mohammed Shami has been asked to appear for a Special Intensive Review (SIR) verification hearing in Kolkata, officials said on Tuesday. Shami was initially called along with his brother, Mohammed Kaif, on Monday at a school in Jadavpur. However, he ...
6 January 2026 TelegraphNobel laureate Amartya Sen's name is among the Bengal electors with "logical discrepancies" in their enumeration forms submitted for the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. However, the Election Commission (EC) later in the day clarified that Amartya Sen, ...
6 January 2026 TelegraphIndian football’s deepening crisis has found a new, influential voice. John Abraham, owner of Northeast United FC, posted a message on Sunday that appeared to aim at the sport’s governing establishment, as the Indian Super League remains suspended. Sharing a ...
6 January 2026 TelegraphA 21-year-old man was arrested for allegedly killing his grandmother after branding her a “witch” at Mamudpur village in the Kumarganj block of South Dinajpur district on Sunday night. Sanjay Tudu, 21, was produced in a court at Balurghat on ...
6 January 2026 TelegraphPassengers of IndiGo’s Bagdogra-Calcutta flight 6E 6135 on Sunday evening were left confused when their plane was delayed due to “bad weather”, despite no fog at either Calcutta or Bagdogra. The flight, scheduled to depart Bagdogra at 7.50pm, finally took off ...
6 January 2026 TelegraphThe temporary paddock set up on the Maidan for training mounted police needs to be resurfaced with additional layers of soil and sand to prevent injuries to horses, Kolkata Police have told Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL), the agency ...
6 January 2026 TelegraphSchool curriculum should aim to link learning with everyday life wherever possible, the chief of the ICSE council told school heads on Monday. Joseph Emmanuel, chief executive and secretary of the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE), was ...
6 January 2026 TelegraphA 65-year-old woman died in her sleep early on Monday after a large chunk of concrete broke off from the ceiling of a three-storey residential building and fell on her family near Park Circus. The incident occurred around 3.10am in ...
6 January 2026 TelegraphThe city spent another shivering afternoon as the mercury was 18.4° Celsius, seven degrees colder than usual, even during the warmest part of the day. As the sun set, the cold winds became more piercing. Monday marked the beginning of a ...
6 January 2026 TelegraphA shed for the Maidan market or Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy Market — popular for sports goods — where traders are supposed to shift temporarily to enable the construction of the Esplanade station on the Joka–Esplanade Metro Purple Line ...
6 January 2026 TelegraphA committee constituted by Jadavpur University to investigate whether two students from the English department were harassed during invigilation has recommended that the department head be relieved of her responsibilities pending the probe. The three-member committee, formed last week, held ...
6 January 2026 TelegraphAn octogenarian staying alone at her Bansdroni home was allegedly robbed of ₹1.5 lakh and valuables by a woman who had been her caregiver for the past 20 years. The elderly woman discovered her cash and valuables missing only after ...
6 January 2026 TelegraphAlleged attacks on Muslim migrant workers from Murshidabad district in Bengal continue unabated in Odisha and other BJP-ruled states, forcing many to flee their workplaces and return home in fear. The latest such incident was reported on Sunday from Sambalpur ...
6 January 2026 TelegraphThe desperation in both the Trinamool Congress and the BJP to secure the Assembly seats of the north Bengal tea belt has prompted leaders of both camps to chant the mantra of wage hike to woo the tea population. While ...
6 January 2026 TelegraphThe state labour department introduced 11 school buses for students residing in the tea estates of Jalpaiguri and Alipurduar districts on Monday, within 48 hours of Trinamool’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s interaction with tea garden workers. On Saturday, while ...
6 January 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Monday said she would move the Supreme Court against the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bengal. The chief minister alleged the SIR had brought fear, harassment and administrative arbitrariness that had led to ...
6 January 2026 TelegraphTwo Calcuttans lost more than ₹50 lakh after making investments through apps they encountered on social media platforms. Police said one of the victims, a resident of Urbana, lost more than ₹37 lakh, while the other, a resident of Turf ...
5 January 2026 TelegraphThe 186-year-old Parsi fire temple on Ezra Street, which was feared to have been badly damaged by a fire on its premises in November, remains “structurally stable” and can be “restored,” engineers from the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) said. The ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphA notification issued by the state health department on December 31, posting Aniket Mahata to RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, surfaced on Saturday. A senior health department official said: “We have communicated the order about his posting to the ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphA former student on Saturday showed Jadavpur University exactly what is wrong with its approach toward alumni. Suman Chakraborty, a mechanical engineering alumnus from the class of 1996 and the current director of IIT Kharagpur, lamented the absence of dialogue ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphGrades are not indicative of intelligence; thus, it is essential to emphasise learning over marks, collaboration and teamwork over isolated rote learning, and creativity over the use of ChatGPT. This has been communicated to students at The Heritage School ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphMany migrant workers from Bengal have returned home after being summoned for hearings as part of the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of Bengal’s electoral rolls. The unscheduled leave from work has meant travel expenses, loss of daily wages and ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphJadavpur University cannot permit “hooliganism” in the name of fostering “intellectual independence”, IIT Kharagpur director Suman Chakraborty, himself an alumnus of JU, said on Saturday. Chakraborty was at JU to deliver the keynote address on the occasion of its second ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphUnidentified men broke into the Hind Motor house of Padmashree Bula Chowdhury in Hooghly on Saturday, the second burglary at her residence in five months. The last incident, on August 15, saw several of the ace swimmer's medals and awards ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is on Monday scheduled to lay the foundation stone for a bridge across the Muriganga River, connecting the Sagar Island, where the annual Gangasagar Mela is held, with the mainland, an official said. The ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphIllegal sand mining to the tune of nearly ₹145 crore was allegedly carried out in parts of Bengal by Arun Saraf and his company, GD Mining Private Limited, along with 14 other firms and his several associates, the Enforcement ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, urging him to immediately halt the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state, and warned that it could cause "mass disenfranchisement" and ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphA controversial remark by a BJP leader at a public meeting in West Bengal's Paschim Medinipur district, suggesting husbands should restrain women beneficiaries of the Lakshmir Bhandar scheme from voting for the TMC, triggered a sharp political backlash and ...
4 January 2026 TelegraphThree migrant workers from West Bengal's Paschim Bardhaman district were allegedly assaulted in Maharashtra after being suspected of being 'Bangladeshis' for speaking Bengali, prompting sharp political reactions in the state. The workers, identified as Dilip Bagdi and Samir Barui, along ...
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