A 10-member team from Cooch Behar, comprising family members of those who died allegedly due to the “SIR panic”, those marked dead in the draft electoral roll and two Trinamool Congress leaders, reached Delhi on Thursday. They are likely to ...
30 January 2026 TelegraphBengal CPM secretary Md Salim met Humayun Kabir, who had recently launched the Janata Unnayan Party and started the initiative to construct a Babri Masjid in Murdishabad district, without the knowledge of the Left party's state secretariat, on Wednesday ...
30 January 2026 TelegraphA Trinamool Congress (TMC) delegation led by party chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to meet Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar in New Delhi on Monday evening. Election Commission officials said CEC Kumar has agreed ...
29 January 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Wednesday broke her silence over the Anandapur fire, which claimed many lives, saying that she had sent her ministers to the ground and ensured a civic volunteer job for one member of each bereaved family, along ...
29 January 2026 TelegraphNobel laureate economist Abhijit Banerjee has described the recently concluded India–EU free trade agreement (FTA) as “a strategic alignment” that sends a signal to Washington amid the high tariffs imposed by the Donald Trump administration that “we don't need ...
29 January 2026 TelegraphThe air quality was marginally better on Monday than it was on Sunday. An environmental scientist said reduced volume of vehicles on the road and closed construction sites may have helped. It was, however, still far from what is desired. At 3pm ...
27 January 2026 TelegraphThe city feasted on books for much of Monday. The lawns of Alipore Jail Museum, the venue for the Exide Kolkata Literary Meet, partnered by The Telegraph, were brimming with people. The 400-odd seats arranged by the organisers were occupied ...
27 January 2026 TelegraphThe BJP on Monday alleged that supporters of the ruling Trinamool Congress attempted to set fire to a puja pandal housing an idol of ‘Bharat Mata’ in the Khardah Assembly constituency on the northern outskirts of Kolkata. Union minister Sukanta ...
27 January 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission of India on Saturday night uploaded a list of around 30 lakh voters categorised as “unmapped voters”, whose records could not be linked with the last special intensive revision (SIR) conducted in 2002. It also uploaded another ...
27 January 2026 TelegraphRajya Sabha member Harsh Vardhan Shringla has unveiled a vision document, which he hopes would transform Siliguri from a mere transit corridor into a national hub for growth, connectivity and innovation. Titled ‘Vibrant Siliguri – Vision 2047’, the vision document ...
27 January 2026 TelegraphIn a major step to protect Jalpaiguri from floods and waterlogging, the state irrigation department has invited tenders to dredge the Karala river which flows through the town "at no cost". According to official sources, dredging will be carried out ...
27 January 2026 TelegraphThe railways have finally decided to serve non-vegetarian food on the newly started Howrah-Guwahati (Kamakhya) Vande Bharat Sleeper Express following persuasion from the Bengal BJP. The sleeper service, inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 17, had triggered controversy ...
27 January 2026 TelegraphRaju Bista, the BJP MP of Darjeeling, has alleged that the Darjeeling district administration is delaying the release of funds for two jobs for which he had made allocations out of his MPLAD fund. In a social media post on ...
27 January 2026 TelegraphThe BJP’s leader of the Opposition in the Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Sunday said Nobel laureate-economist Amartya Sen — often critical of the saffron regime and recently of the special intensive revision (SIR) in poll-bound Bengal — need ...
27 January 2026 TelegraphThe Oberoi Grand has written to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and Kolkata Police, seeking their help in moving hawkers out of the Grand arcade so that repair work on the arcade’s columns can begin. A lawyer representing the hotel, who ...
26 January 2026 TelegraphThe Alipurduar district Trinamool Congress leadership has stepped up its attack on the BJP as the Assembly election approaches, accusing the saffron party of making tall promises every election without delivering on key development projects. Prakash Chik Baraik, president of ...
26 January 2026 Telegraph“Hattimatim tim Tara mathe pare dim Tader khara duto shing Tara Hattimatim tim” (Hattimatim tim They lay eggs on the field They have two straight horns They are Hattimatim tim) A chhora most Bengalis grew up reciting is having a moment on Instagram, thanks to a reel ...
25 January 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission has pulled up district election officers (DEOs) for failing to upload documents related to voters whose hearings had already been completed, reminding them that further delay would deprive ineligible voters of the opportunities to appeal before ...
25 January 2026 Telegraph“All of India is in Kolkata anyway.” That was how Jhumpa Lahiri described the City of Joy during a session on her novel Roman Stories at Kolkata Literary Meet on January 22 — a brief remark that suddenly popped up ...
25 January 2026 TelegraphFilmmakers Sudhir Mishra, Nandita Das and Chaitanya Tamhane on Saturday reflected on the long-running tension between art and commerce, Indian cinema’s engagement with world cinema, and the forces that shape what films get made and travel globally, at a ...
25 January 2026 TelegraphActor-director Nandita Das, on Saturday, said India’s fast-growing convenience economy is built on “deeply unequal” structures that expose gig workers to risk, insecurity and loss of dignity, even as consumers are increasingly pampered by app-based platforms. Speaking at the Kolkata ...
25 January 2026 TelegraphClimate change cannot be reduced to carbon numbers or recycling habits, but represents a fundamental transformation of life on Earth, writers Barbara Kingsolver and Amitav Ghosh said at the Kolkata Literary Meet on Sunday. In conversation with writer and editor ...
25 January 2026 TelegraphFilmmaker Sudhir Mishra on Saturday said Ritwik Ghatak cannot be boxed into categories such as “art cinema” or “parallel cinema”, asserting that the late auteur’s work continues to shape Indian filmmaking through its uncompromising cinematic language and deep engagement ...
25 January 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission failed to meet the January 24 deadline to display the list of voters with logical discrepancies at the gram panchayat, block, subdivision and civic ward offices, prompting the Trinamool Congress and other parties opposed to the ...
25 January 2026 TelegraphThe management of Raja tea estate in Jalpaiguri’s Malbazar subdivision announced suspension of work in the garden on Friday evening, citing non-cooperation by a section of workers and paucity of funds. The decision has left 921 workers jobless. A source said ...
25 January 2026 TelegraphLeaders of Gorkha parties and the BJP on Saturday called on Pankaj Kumar Singh, the retired IPS officer appointed by the Centre as the interlocutor to look into the issues of the Darjeeling hills, the Dooars and the Terai. Bimal ...
25 January 2026 TelegraphThe CPM said on Saturday that industries had died and corruption had taken deep roots under the Trinamool Congress regime in Bengal, and the BJP was busy dividing the nation on communal lines. Minakshi Mukherjee, a state committee member of ...
25 January 2026 TelegraphA slice of Kolkata’s cultural history resurfaced recently when Trincas shared a reel showing that the legendary Park Street restaurant appeared in Satyajit Ray’s 1980 short film Pikoo. Shot for French television channel France 3, the film unexpectedly preserves rare ...
25 January 2026 TelegraphMetro Railway has introduced, on an “experimental basis”, a provision to buy return tickets at the time of booking an onward journey. It means a commuter travelling back and forth between two stations can now buy a single QR-coded paper ...
25 January 2026 TelegraphPolice on Saturday issued a public advisory on its X handle asking mobile users not to download files received from unknown numbers “on WhatsApp or other messaging platforms”. The advisory was issued within hours of Kolkata Police arresting a group ...
25 January 2026 TelegraphSubhas Chandra Bose’s unwavering commitment to secularism and inclusiveness came to the fore repeatedly at the celebrations marking his 129th birth anniversary at Netaji Bhavan on Friday. Bose had deep admiration for the ideology of his political guru, Deshbandhu Chittaranjan ...
25 January 2026 TelegraphNetaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s daughter, Anita Bose Pfaff, has said that she wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi “at least twice or thrice” seeking his support to bring back her father’s ashes to India, but received neither a reply ...
25 January 2026 TelegraphA blue Skoda Octavia rammed into guardrails placed on Red Road to restrict traffic for rehearsals for the Republic Day parade early on Saturday, police said. The accident was reported at 7.35am, barely half an hour before the rehearsals were ...
25 January 2026 TelegraphThe ISI Calcutta representatives on the ISI council have opposed a proposed Bill seeking to overhaul the institute’s governance structure, while representatives from some other ISI centres support the changes. The council, ISI’s highest administrative decision-making body, met on Saturday ...
25 January 2026 TelegraphThe Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has introduced a new subject, entrepreneurship, at the ISC level from exam year 2028. In a circular issued to principals on Friday, the CISCE said changes had been made to regulations ...
25 January 2026 TelegraphPulitzer Prize-winning Bengali-American author Jhumpa Lahiri returned to Calcutta’s favourite literature festival after 12 years, championing the short story form. “Two things make the short form really magical and unique. One is that it pays attention to every word and ...
23 January 2026 TelegraphThousands who felt cheated after failing to get a glimpse of football great Lionel Messi at the Salt Lake Stadium on December 13 are still awaiting a refund for their tickets, one and a half months on. Bidhannagar police had ...
23 January 2026 TelegraphAll the 8,300 “untainted” but sacked teachers who had made it to the interview round of the ongoing teacher selection process are on the merit list published by the school service commission on Thursday, but not all of them ...
23 January 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission on Thursday asked the Murshidabad district election officer (DEO) to lodge an FIR against Trinamool Congress MLA Manirul Islam for his alleged role in the vandalism of the SIR hearing centre at Farakka and the manhandling ...
23 January 2026 TelegraphA growing sense of fear and uncertainty surrounding the ongoing hearing process linked to the special intensive revision (SIR) of the voters’ list spilled onto the streets once again on Thursday, as incidents of harassment triggered vandalism and protests, ...
23 January 2026 TelegraphThe trade union of the Trinamool Congress has commenced organising micro-level meetings in the tea gardens of the Dooars to strengthen the party ahead of the Assembly elections. Tea garden workers and their families determine the electoral outcome in 10 ...
23 January 2026 TelegraphA Muslim labourer from South 24-Parganas was allegedly killed in Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday night after being branded as a “Bangladeshi” in a rerun of violence against Bengali-speaking migrant workers from the minority community. Manjur Alam Laskar, 32, from Usthi ...
23 January 2026 TelegraphThe presence of a large number of Himalayan griffons, a vulture species, at a site for dumping dead animals near Siliguri in recent days has drawn the attention of wildlife conservationists, who view the development as a positive sign ...
23 January 2026 TelegraphThe Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) has registered a significant rise in earnings and passenger footfall between April and December 2025 — the first nine months of the current fiscal year — by generating a revenue of around ₹19 crore, ...
23 January 2026 TelegraphShankar Ghosh, the BJP MLA of Siliguri, launched a 24-hour hunger strike on Thursday, alleging that the Trinamool Congress-run Bengal government and the Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) were obstructing him from utilising the BEUP (Bidhayak Elaka Unnayan Prakalpa) funds ...
23 January 2026 TelegraphWorkers of the Kilcott tea estate in Jalpaiguri’s Matiali block demonstrated at the garden on Thursday over the alleged non-payment of fortnightly wages and arrears in provident fund (PF) contributions, demanding that the garden be handed over to a ...
23 January 2026 TelegraphNetaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s house in the picturesque outskirts of Kurseong is meticulously maintained, preserving the memories of the great leader. However, the state heritage commission has yet to declare it a heritage property. The house, in Darjeeling’s Giddepahar, houses ...
20 January 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission will publish a list of 94.5 lakh voters with logical discrepancies in Bengal, a number whittled down from 1.67 crore following verification through booth-level officers (BLOs). However, after Monday’s Supreme Court order to the EC directing that ...
20 January 2026 TelegraphA survey conducted on bats in West Bengal has found no active Nipah virus infection, though antibodies were detected in one specimen, indicating prior exposure, a senior state forest department official said on Tuesday. The survey was conducted amid the ...
20 January 2026 TelegraphTempers flared against the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls across south Bengal on Tuesday with hearing centres vandalised and roads blocked. The violence and lawlessness erupted a day after the Supreme Court issued a slew of directions to ...
20 January 2026 TelegraphThe state government has allocated over ₹300 crore to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to implement projects identified through the Amader Para Amader Samadhan programme. Booth-level camps for the programme were held between August and November. Most of the work ...
20 January 2026 TelegraphA three-member committee constituted by Jadavpur University to probe claims that two students were subjected to harassment by then head of the English department during exam supervision because of their community will submit its report on January 29. On Monday, ...
20 January 2026 TelegraphA coffee dispenser to pour a steaming cup from, seats to lounge in and books and free Wi-Fi to browse while awaiting postal services. The Jadavpur University (JU) post office was reopened with a new look on Monday. The renovation ...
20 January 2026 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Monday stayed a Calcutta High Court judgment directing the Bengal government to call 2016 waitlisted candidates for interviews in the fresh teachers’ recruitment process, despite many having crossed the age limit of 40 years. A bench ...
20 January 2026 TelegraphThe academic council of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta, will hold a special meeting on Tuesday to discuss the controversial draft ISI bill, which allegedly seeks to fundamentally alter the institute’s governance structure and dilute its academic autonomy. The ...
20 January 2026 TelegraphDespite rising temperatures, air quality in Calcutta and Howrah remains hazardous as illegal burning of waste in the open continues unchecked. At 10am on Sunday, the air quality monitoring stations at Ballygunge, Bidhannagar, Fort William, Jadavpur, Rabindra Bharati University and ...
19 January 2026 TelegraphThe Calcutta High Court on Monday took suo motu cognisance of the hazardous air pollution crisis in the Kolkata-Howrah region, initiating judicial proceedings over the city’s deteriorating air quality. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha ...
19 January 2026 TelegraphA migrant youth from Sitalkuchi block of Cooch Behar district was found dead in BJP-ruled Assam, with his family members alleging he was murdered and the ruling Trinamool Congress terming the incident as “deeply worrying.” The deceased, 35-year-old Himankar Pal, ...
19 January 2026 TelegraphPrime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off three new Amrit Bharat Express trains from Singur through video conferencing on Sunday. These trains will run between Santragachhi and Tambaram (near Chennai); between Howrah and Anand Vihar (Delhi); and between Sealdah and Varanasi. The ...
19 January 2026 TelegraphGlucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) drugs, such as Ozempic and Mounjaro, are part of a class of medications that can help manage Type 2 diabetes and obesity and they have taken the world by storm. However, many questions remain about their use, and ...
19 January 2026 TelegraphA senior citizen reportedly lost ₹15 lakh in a fraudulent share trading scheme after he came across an advertisement on social media, police said. Gopal Banerjee, a resident of SGIL Residenzza off Belgharia Expressway, came across a Facebook post about ...
19 January 2026 TelegraphKolkata-based sports promoter Satadru Dutta, the main organiser of Lionel Messi’s visit to the city, was granted bail on Monday by Bidhannagar district court. Dutta was released on a bond of Rs 10,000 along with two security bonds. He had ...
19 January 2026 TelegraphShib Shankar Chowdhury, a western classical music composer and vocalist from Englishbazar in Malda, has been selected to perform at an international music conference organised by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) at the George ...
19 January 2026 TelegraphThe CBI on Saturday submitted a status report at the Sealdah court on its probe into the rape and murder of the postgraduate trainee at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in August last year. The young doctor was found ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphThe additional chief judicial magistrate court in Alipore granted permission on Friday to Hindol Mazumdar, a PhD candidate and former student of Jadavpur University, to skip his physical appearance at the hearings. A lawyer representing Mazumdar, who was arrested at ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphThe chairman of the council of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta, has convened a meeting of the institute’s highest administrative body on January 24 to “discuss the ISI bill”. The bill seeks to replace the council with a board ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday sought to reinforce the BJP's narrative that it could win elections anywhere in India, citing the party’s recent victories in municipal polls in Maharashtra and at Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala. Addressing a public meeting in ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphSurajit Saha, the Trinamool councillor of ward 8 of Balurghat town in South Dinajpur, was unanimously elected as the new chairman of Balurghat municipality on Saturday. Munmun Kar, the councillor of ward 21, was nominated by Saha as the new ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphThe Buxa Tiger Reserve (BTR) in Alipurduar — the lone tiger reserve in north Bengal — clicked an adult male Bengal tiger on Thursday during an ongoing camera trapping exercise. The development has reinforced evidence of continued presence and movement ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphAbhishek Shukla, the subdivisional officer of Gangarampur in South Dinajpur district, received a notice for a verification hearing of the ongoing SIR (special intensive revision) of electoral roll due to a discrepancy in the spelling of his name in ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphHundreds of voters held demonstrations in front of the residences of three booth-level officers (BLOs) in Cooch Behar district on Saturday in protest against the notices for hearing issued to them in connection with the ongoing special intensive revision ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Saturday urged the judiciary to safeguard the country’s Constitution and democracy, speaking in the presence of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and other senior judges. “The judiciary is the custodian of the Indian Constitution,” the chief ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday lambasted a “stone-hearted” Trinamool Congress on Bengal’s soil but caused surprise with his silence on Mamata Banerjee’s storming of Enforcement Directorate raid sites, the biggest flashpoint between their parties in the run-up to ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphMurtaj Sheikh, a 60-year-old resident of Farakka, had to walk nearly 3km on Saturday afternoon with his fractured arm in a sling to catch a bus after a medical review at the Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital in Behrampore. The ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphTough conditions mandated by the Centre and the delay in the processing of formalities by the Bengal government are acting as major stumbling blocks for workers looking for jobs under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). A ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphThe Election Commission will conduct nearly seven lakh hearings per day from Monday to complete the hearings of 95 lakh voters flagged with logical discrepancies in their enumeration forms by February 7, the last date of the hearing and ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphMob violence over the alleged assault of a migrant worker in Bihar erupted at Beldanga in Murshidabad on Saturday, forcing police to resort to lathicharge and burst tear gas shells to clear a blockade on National Highway 12 and ...
18 January 2026 TelegraphFor the first time in the 49-year history of the International Kolkata Book Fair, there is a slim possibility of an official US pavilion coming up at the event this year, the organisers said on Saturday. The fair will be ...
17 January 2026 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday trained guns at the BJP for the recent incidents of attack and torture on Bengali-speaking Muslim migrant workers in BJP-ruled states, while she tried to consolidate Hindu votes by laying the foundation stone ...
17 January 2026 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Friday stayed the operation of the Calcutta High Court judgment that had disqualified Trinamool Congress leader and former BJP MLA Mukul Roy from the Assembly under the anti-defection law, as the country's top court prima ...
17 January 2026 TelegraphThe protests by residents against the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral roll continued even on Friday in multiple locations of the state, right from north to south of Bengal. In Cooch Behar, even a section of booth-level ...
17 January 2026 TelegraphPrime Minister Narendra Modi came to Malda with the “infiltrator" stick to hit the ruling Trinamool in Bengal ahead of the state Assembly polls. In a public meeting in Sahapur on Saturday, Modi referred to the BJP-ruled states surrounding Bengal ...
17 January 2026 TelegraphIndian author-activist Arundhati Roy spoke about her memoir, Mother Mary Comes To Me, at St Xavier’s College in Kolkata on Wednesday. This was the first public event for her book outside Kerala. Organised by the Kalam Club, the ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphA booth-level officer (BLO) was found dead in Mukundapur on Thursday morning. A BJP leader from the locality has claimed that the local Trinamool Congress councillor of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation exerted mental stress on him, which led to ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphLoud cheers. A carnival mood. The roar of challenge. Nicco Park burst into energy as it came alive with music, colour and competition at TTIS Challenge 2026. Presented by Narayana International School and Credmont International School and powered by J.D. ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphOne of the two nurses who tested positive for the Nipah virus regained consciousness on Thursday. The other remains in a coma but is responding to “painful stimulation”, state health officials said. Both nurses are admitted at a private hospital ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphLady Brabourne College has informed Calcutta University that it wishes to admit students to its master’s programmes either through admission tests or interviews this year. The government college offers postgraduate programmes in 10 subjects: physics, chemistry, mathematics, botany, zoology, microbiology, ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphThe Belgharia railway overbridge, which connects parts of Dunlop, Kamarhati, and its adjoining areas with Nimta and Birati on the city’s northern fringes, will remain closed from Saturday for repair and maintenance work. The project to enhance the stability of ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphA fire broke out in a chemical godown in a congested locality off Burrabazar on Thursday afternoon. The flames threatened to leap across to the other shops and residential buildings, but were contained in time. Police said there were no reports ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphJustice Suvra Ghosh of the high court on Thursday refused to allow the BJP to proceed with its proposed dharna near the main gate of the state secretariat Nabanna. The judge said that the party may organise its event from ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphYou know the visually impaired “read” by touching and identifying a system of raised dots called Braille, but do you know how Braille is written? January 4 was World Braille Day, and the Workshop for the Blind in LB Block ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphOver the past month, a Sector III mom in her 30s shared six separate social media posts of her eight-year-old son. In the snaps, the child plays cricket, sings, makes a greeting card and enjoys a family picnic. A ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphUniworld City began the 11th edition of its gala cricket tournament — Uniworld Premiere League, being held in association with The Telegraph Salt Lake — last Friday. The opening ceremony of the UPL was a heady mix of music, ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphA new website has catalogued the complete repository of republic India’s online coins and notes, and also provides monetary evaluation of individual items from a collector’s perspective. The website, www.numiscape.com, was launched last month on the concluding evening of Mudra ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphRabindra Tirtha was packed to capacity on a Sunday afternoon for a film screening. The film had an unusual title — Dear Secretary Sir. It was centred on an unusual man — Md. Nurul Islam — and his equally ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphTensions spiralled into violence on Thursday when residents of several areas of Goalpokher-II block in Chakulia, North Dinajpur, attacked the office of the block development officer (BDO), accusing a section of officials of harassment on the pretext of "hearings ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphThe death of a 30-year-old hawker from Bengal in neighbouring Jharkhand sparked protests on the highway and rail tracks in Murshidabad’s Beldanga on Friday. The family members of the hawker, Mohammad Alauddin Sheikh, brought his corpse back home and sat ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Friday stayed the Calcutta High Court’s verdict disqualifying senior leader Mukul Roy as a Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly following his defection from the BJP to the Trinamool Congress. A bench comprising Chief Justice ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphWith West Bengal assembly elections just months away, Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee sharpened the political contest in Nandigram by announcing that Sebashray health camps would be held in the constituency every year, issuing a direct challenge to BJP ...
16 January 2026 TelegraphAnit Thapa, the chief executive of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA), has urged the state government to introduce a pension scheme for tea workers aged 58 and above who have reached the age of retirement in closed tea estates. In ...
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