Kolkata: A new modus operandi of snatching has been reported in the city where the accused pick up an argument with the victim on a flimsy ground, assault him and then snatch without the victim actually realizing the loss ...
12 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: On Sunday, Radha Studio was packed to capacity with people standing on the aisle for the first city screening of ‘Mother' — a feature film on Mother Teresa which follows seven consecutive days at a pivotal moment in ...
12 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee reminded on Tuesday that every private hospital in the state is bound to accept Swasthya Sathi. Those failing to do so will face a show-cause, and at times even suspension of licences, she warned."Someone ...
12 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a first, cities across India, including Kolkata, will dedicate Nov to young birders. The Young Birders' Month (YBM) — a first-of-its-kind month-long campaign created to spark curiosity and ecological awareness among young minds — is being held ...
12 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A man was arrested on Monday morning outside the airport on charges of orchestrating a "CEO fraud" that led to the embezzlement of Rs 98 lakh. Accused Mohammad Salman Khan was sent to police custody for 10 days. ...
12 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The name of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation chairperson Sabyasachi Dutta and eight families from his DL Block row in Salt Lake are missing from the 2002 electoral roll. Dutta has been a councillor since 1995 and also served as ...
12 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state submitted a report to Calcutta High Court on Tuesday, stating that the govt has released some funds to enhance security at JU campus as ordered by HC. The state submitted that it allocated Rs 62,000 in ...
12 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The black female dog, Poko, might be no more after being run over by a milk delivery truck on Sunday, but her litter has kept 23-year-old delivery agent Pranay Marick worried. The resident of Madan Mitra Lane, who ...
12 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Don't mow down roadside vegetation cover, experts have urged KMC. Botanists and foresters requested KMC to reconsider its routine of indiscriminate scraping of roadside vegetation—grasses and undergrowth—an exercise that released large volumes of fine dust particles, the ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A large section of cooks, drivers, domestic help, caregivers, housekeeping staff and medical attendants, that powers households and offices in the city, has left for their homes in the districts to get papers needed for SIR exercise, if ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata residents on , are experiencing a sunny morning with clear skies and comfortable temperatures, though air quality remains a significant concern following . The city recorded an yesterday, prompting advisories for residents to limit prolonged outdoor exposure ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Disgraced former education minister Partha Chatterjee, who has been in custody since July 23, 2022, in the cash-for-school job scam, got bail on Monday in the last of the four cases lodged against him for his alleged role ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday dismissed a PIL petition seeking protection under Section 6B of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act for those applying for enrolment during the special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls.The petitioners were members of ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Footage from 52 CCTV cameras and joint action by cops from three police stations — Amherst Street, Jorasanko and Girish Park — and four traffic guards helped track down a milk-delivery truck that had run over a stray ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The overwhelming response to the 4K restoration of Satyajit Ray's ‘Aranyer Din Ratri', screened at the 31st Kolkata International Film Festival on Saturday, has now sparked interest among the new generation of cinephiles. Work has begun on the ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool Congress has moved the Supreme Court, questioning the manner in which the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is being done in Bengal, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Monday. Banerjee told reporters in Siliguri, "Like DMK ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Even after a week since the SIR exercise started in the state, a large section of electors is still anxious as they are yet to receive their enumeration forms. However, the Election Commission of India on Monday ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata/Siliguri: India saw "notebandi" nine years ago, now it was seeing "votebandi" courtesy SIR, CM Mamata Banerjee said in Siliguri on Monday, demanding an immediate halt to the process.Banerjee, who linked the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of voters' list ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: For hundreds of Kolkata residents studying or working abroad, the online Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process has turned unexpectedly complicated. The online enumeration portal of the Election Commission, meant to simplify voter verification, is proving inaccessible to many ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) health department will scale up its stray dog vaccination drive following the Supreme Court verdict asking the states to ensure public safety from strays. The KMC top brass has also started a search ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: From enumeration form fill-up tutorials to reels on ‘how not to mess up your Form 6', the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls has turned into an unlikely source of "content" for social media creators.Across Instagram, YouTube, and X, ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a joint operation with Kolkata Police, the Uttar Pradesh police apprehended Sukanta Bandyopadhyay, the prime suspect in a Rs 200 crore fraud case on Sunday night. Bandyopadhyay was staying in a residential condo located near Anandapur PS. ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A trader residing in the Taltala area of central Kolkata has been accused of orchestrating a financial fraud to siphon off around Rs 11 crore from the victim. The incident, reportedly began on or after May 8.The Park ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 30-year-old woman was allegedly molested by an auto driver when she was travelling from Taratala to Porra-Aswathatala on Sunday. She was sitting in the front seat when the incident occurred. The driver, Nirmal Chettri, even allegedly followed ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The All India Insurance Employees' Association (AIIEA) has threatened to launch a nationwide agitation against the Centre's proposed bill to increase the FDI in the country's insurance industry to 100% from the present 74%.At a press conference here ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A SpiceJet flight from Mumbai to Kolkata made an emergency landing on one engine on Sunday night after a snag occurred in the Boeing B 737-800 aircraft during descent. After a safe touchdown, all 188 passengers on board ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday extended interim protection granted to leader of opposition in the assembly Suvendu Adhikari in a case related to alleged vandalism at the Kolaghat party office till Jan 31. Justice Suvra Ghosh fixed the ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Amid intensifying turf war in Bengal's Matua heartland, the hunger strike by a Trinamool-backed faction of the All India Matua Mahasangha (AIMM) — which entered its sixth day — took a grim turn on Monday after the death ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 25-year-old woman became the latest victim in a brazen snatching incident in the Anandapur-Tagore Park area, a locality that has witnessed a spate of similar crimes in recent weeks.The incident occurred on the evening of Nov 6 ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A mass tree transplantation project was undertaken by Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) at Subash Uddyan (Northern Park) on Sunday to facilitate construction of a Rs 44-crore storm water drainage pumping station. The long-awaited project aims at alleviating waterlogging ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The mid and premium housing segments in Kolkata, with prices between Rs 40 lakh and Rs 1.5 crore, were the frontrunners in both sales and new launches. This was followed by the affordable housing segment, according to a ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Union minister of coal and mines on Sunday emphasised the urgency for mineral security for the nation and urged (Hindustan Copper) to play a meaningful role in this endeavour. He was delivering the keynote address at ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a rare political and social gesture, Trinamool on Monday publicly felicitated two young women from the Sundarbans who recently tied the knot — perhaps marking the first time a major political party in India has officially celebrated ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: While the nip in the air is already here, do not expect the winter chill for now. The Met office says the mercury is unlikely to dip significantly at present. In fact, both the maximum and minimum temperatures ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Around 280 students from classes 11 and 12, from 13 Bengali-medium govt-run schools of Kolkata and Maheshtala, participated in a science awareness programme organised by the New Alipore Multipurpose School Alumni Association (NAMSAA). The aim was to enhance ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Jadavpur University is set to conduct its first internal complaints committee (ICC) elections on Nov 27 to elect a PhD scholars' representative to the ICC. The polls to elect students' representatives for the ICC will follow soon, said ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: For the first time, RG Medical College and Hospital will have two fests in a year. In Sept, the 139-year-old institution organised its fest, Lobelia. However, some doctors and students stated that it deviated from the decency and ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise has given electors the option to permanently delete the name of any deceased family member from the electoral roll. An elector must write ‘Expired' in large font on the enumeration form ...
11 November 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A section of younsters in Kolkata are embracing the concept of digital detoxing, consciously disconnecting from their devices to reconnect with nature, hobbies, and family. This voluntary action stems from a realisation that they are increasingly getting dependent ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaDarjeeling: An all-party meeting convened by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) to build consensus ahead of the Centre-appointed interlocutor's visit, saw a disappointing turnout on Sunday, with only five of the 12 invited parties attending.The meeting, which began at ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Nine emerging cities in the country, including Bhubaneswar and Guwahati, now have a combined commercial real estate economy of nearly Rs 10 lakh crore and command 7 crore sq ft of office space and 8 crore sq ft ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata experienced a sunny morning on November 10, 2025, with temperatures expected to reach 28.8°C and moderate humidity of 51%. While the weather conditions are favorable for outdoor activities, the city recorded poor air quality yesterday with an AQI ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A recent workshop organised by the Association of Schools for the Indian School Certificate West Bengal and North East Chapter emphasised the importance of Hindi language and literature education in today's changing times.Hosted by Sri Ram Narayan Singh ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two houses were looted in the Hathiara Sharda Palli area under Eco Park Police Station. According to police, the owners of both the houses had gone out with their families on vacation. During this time, thieves raided their ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A couple, who visited a cafe on Chitpore Road last week, alleged that some unknown people abused and assaulted them in an intoxicated state on Sunday night. Chitpore police station registered an FIR and started a probe.The complainant, ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaSerampore: A 27-year-old woman from Kananadi village in Dhaniakhali allegedly attempted suicide with her six-year-old daughter on Friday. Her family said the attempt was due to fear and anxiety over not receiving enumeration forms during the SIR drive in ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaDarjeeling: The Gorkha Bharatiya Janjati Mahasangh took to the streets of Darjeeling on Sunday, holding a massive protest rally to renew its long-standing demand for scheduled tribe (ST) status of 11 Gorkha communities. Setting Centre a Dec deadline to ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The all-India tiger estimation exercise will kick off in the Indian Sundarbans on Nov 25 with installation of camera traps across the tiger reserve and divisional forest areas spanning over 4,000 sq km. Camera deployment will continue till ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The biggest source of the city's air pollution is road dust, a recently released report has revealed, upending the popular perception that vehicles and factories are the worst offenders.The source-apportionment study, commissioned by West Bengal Pollution Control Board ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The minimum temperature in Kolkata dropped below 20°C for the first time this season, ushering in the first hint of a winter chill. Though winter is still some way off, the mercury will now stay below the normal ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: After vandalism and an attack on a customs inspector in Deeshari Megacity, a housing complex on Dwarir Road in Sonarpur on Oct 23, the residents are set to set up a mob alarm at the gate to counter ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Over a week after the murder of a Salt Lake gold trader, a police investigation revealed that a car with a blue beacon was used to dump his mutilated body on the bank of a canal in New ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: One person was arrested from the Girish Park area on Saturday for allegedly duping Iskcon of Rs 2 crore in 2019 during a bulk purchase of religious books.According to police, a few years ago, Iskcon had placed a ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaTarakeswar (Hooghly): A four-year-old girl was found near a drain, bleeding profusely, barely a few hundred metres from Tarakeswar railway station on Saturday morning. The child, said to be abducted in her sleep, was found when hours later her ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is likely to dominate the Winter sessions of Parliament and the Bengal assembly. This winter sessions will be the last complete assembly session before the 2026 polls.Criticising Centre for a truncated ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kankaria Group is set to ramp up production capacity in its jute and textile divisions with an investment of Rs 150 crore over the next two years, reports Sarthak Ganguly. A significant portion of the investment will ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaMemari (East Burdwan): A 50-year-old booth level officer (BLO) died early on Sunday at Kalna super specialty hospital after suffering a cerebral stroke while distributing SIR enumeration forms. Namita Hansda's husband, Madhab, alleged that the Anganwadi worker was under ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaWest Midnapore: A humble tea seller from rural Bengal left many amazed with his act of patience, perseverance and love.Bachchu Choudhury, a resident of Maula village in West Midnapore's Chandrakona block I, turned heads when he walked into a ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A day after issuing show-cause notices to eight BLOs for not handing out enumeration forms for the special intensive revision of electoral rolls at doorsteps, Election commission on Sunday took a soft stance on SIR camps being held ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Poor condition of roads, encroached pavements, and cars parked on both sides in the lanes inside blocks are some of the most pressing problems which residents of Salt Lake have been facing. The Association of Bidhannagar Citizens (ABC), ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Smartworks Coworking Spaces Ltd (SCSL), one of India's largest managed office platforms, hopes to grow at a CAGR of 30%-35% over the next three years to maintain its leadership position over other major players, said the company's MD ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Singapore-based film-maker Jason Soo, who shot footage on the 2018 Gaza Freedom Flotilla to make ‘Al Awda', could not attend its first screening at the 31st Kolkata International Film Festival on Saturday because of visa issues. The director ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Three men have been arrested by Regent Park police, for assaulting and looting a cop and his 15-year-old daughter, on Oct 17 in the Tollygunge area. The minor was headed to her athletics training session when the assailants ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: From a scramble for documents to get the forms filled out, residents of Basanti Colony, off the Ultadanga railway station, Kolkata's biggest slum, are struggling to strike a balance between earning their daily livelihood and dealing with their ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Keeping the umbilical cord intact while resuscitating a newborn delivered to a woman with severe pneumonia saved the baby at the state-run Medical College Hospital Kolkata (MCH). Now, a little over a month later, both mother and son ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A sudden and sharp rise in unseasonal chikungunya cases has taken doctors and hospitals by surprise, with many being admitted with severe symptoms. While chikungunya cases are common after the onset of monsoon in Aug-Sept, the spurt has ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Special Intensive Revision (SIR) revealing multiple voters at a single address may raise eyebrows, but not at this address in north Kolkata.Nearly 400 Kolkata voters here have the same address on their EPIC cards — 156 Acharya Prafulla ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Flooded with a slew of queries raised by online users facing the "linking" and "no record found" issues while trying to fill up the SIR enumeration form online, the on Sunday specified that linking the phone number ...
10 November 2025 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Fund-raising NGO Kolkata Gives concluded its annual fund raising event for 2025 on Saturday with over 100 high net worth philanthropists mobilising Rs 5 crore for four NGOs working at the local, regional and zonal grassroots. The funds ...
9 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The relief of many voters waiting for the to open the online submission of SIR forms was short-lived as they encountered multiple issues when they attempted to access and fill the form on Saturday. The EC's website ...
9 November 2025 Times of IndiaTARAKESHWAR (HOOGHLY): A severely bleeding four-year-old child was found near a drain close to Tarakeshwar railway station, near Kolkata early on Saturday, sparking tension in the area. The child, who lived with her grandparents, was reportedly sleeping when the ...
9 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city felt the first whiff of winter chill with the minimum temperature plunging three degrees — from 24.8°C on Friday to 21.6°C on Saturday. The chill could continue and the minimum temperature is set to drop below ...
9 November 2025 Times of IndiaHowrah: A migrant labourer from Amta in Howrah, working in Chhattisgarh, was reportedly tortured and killed for allegedly speaking in Bengali and mistaken for a Bangladeshi. The body of Biddyut Bera (40) was found in a forest in the ...
9 November 2025 Times of IndiaKrishnanagar: "Please join us for dinner to celebrate our shared happiness. Mahua Moitra & Pinaki Misra," read the Saturday 7 pm invite. The venue: Karimpur Regulate Market playground.Moitra's first public marriage reception in Bengal after her May 30 marriage ...
9 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), which has a dog pound that can take in 250 animals. After the SC order, it is now bracing for handling a situation in a city that has an estimated canine population of ...
9 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: More than four crore voters have already received enumeration forms within the first five days of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bengal that kicked off on Nov 4, and the Election Commission expects booth ...
9 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A late dengue surge led to a spurt in hospital admissions in Kolkata over the last week. Sporadic rain until early last week may have triggered the surge, doctors felt. Around 10%-15% of samples tested at some hospitals ...
9 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: IIT Kharagpur is set to roll out two courses — ‘Life Skills' and ‘Joy & Success' — for its students in the backdrop of a spate of suicides on the campus this year. The ‘Life Skills' course will ...
9 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool on Satu- rday staged a protest at Jorasanko Thakurbari, the ancestral home of the Tagore family, over BJP MP Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri's controversial remarks on national anthem ‘Jana Gana Mana'.Kageri, speaking at an event in Honnavar celebrating ...
9 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The KMC assistant engineer who was on Friday arrested for amassing assets worth Rs 5.8 crore in five year, far exceeding his known income of Rs 56 lakh in the same period, would be suspended, a KMC official ...
9 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A deeply political film, which is poetic in treatment, feel-good in spirit, and yet hard-hitting in essence, is in the Indian language competition at the 31st KIFF. Set in the future, in 2047, it is about the last ...
9 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Election Commission on Saturday issued show-cause notices to eight BLOs for alleged dereliction of duty and plans to lodge FIRs against five BLAs for flouting EC norms.The commission has opened a helpline and all BLO-linked issues can ...
9 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool Congress has launched an initiative to provide emotional and practical assistance to people affected by anxiety related to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list in Bengal. As part of the initiative, led by TMC ...
9 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Aeronautical Message Switching System, which floundered at Delhi airport on Friday and disrupted flights across the country, is also in use at Kolkata airport. Though AMSS here was augmented six years ago and is different from Delhi's, ...
9 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: From the earliest Bengali scripts and ancient copper edicts predating Christianity to terracotta plaques commemorating the sati of a woman in 1206, the Indian Museum has unveiled an exhibition of epigraphic treasures drawn from its reserve holdings. The ...
9 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A day after the Supreme Court order to remove strays from educational institutes like schools, colleges, hospitals, sports complexes, bus depots and railway stations, animal activists and feeders raised concerns over the fate of community dogs as adequate ...
9 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Police have told motorists they can avoid seizure of physical documents if they have the mParivahan app. While the DigiLocker app is also a bona fide app for storing digital driver's licence and registration smart card, Kolkata Police ...
9 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Several members of a family residing in a 250-year-old, three-storied house that belongs to a descedent of the Sabarna Roy Chowdhury family of Barisha on Paharpur Road, Garden Reach, lay temporarily paralysed after some chemicals were allegedly sprayed ...
9 November 2025 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri/Serampore/Kolkata: Three deaths, allegedly linked to fears surrounding the special intensive revision (SIR) of poll rolls, have once again sparked controversy, with the Trinamool alleging that the exercise has created panic among citizens.In Jalpaiguri, a 60-year-old man, Nagendra Nath ...
9 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Capitalising on the visit of BLOs at doorsteps during the ongoing SIR drive, many residents across the city are coming forward to resolve their voter card-related issues, such as change of address and rectification of name spelling. Unaware ...
9 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Delay in receiving the SIR forms by some members of the same family has caused anxiety and apprehension across the city. There are multiple instances when a section of family members have not received the form while others ...
9 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: With the SIR verification drive entering the crucial weekend phase on Saturday, booth-level officers (BLOs) in Kolkata and New Town have switched gears — moving from door-to-door visits to community-based camps at housing complexes where voters are now ...
9 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A special screening of ‘Deja Vu', a documentary chronicling a 10,000-km journey across the US's agricultural heartland to capture small-time farmers' struggles against corporatisation and draw parallels with India's farm protests, was screened at the 31st Kolkata International ...
9 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Several families in Kolkata missed their weekend plans to stay at home and receive the SIR enumeration form from BLOs. Many BLOs visited homes only to find them locked as members were out on work. BLOs also fanned ...
9 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two men on a bike snatched two gold chains, one with a gold pendant, worth Rs 3 lakh, from Gurjit Singh (50), a resident of the area, as he stepped out of an eatery on a bustling Bidhan ...
8 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A two-year-old labrador that swallowed the key of a motorbike in Singur almost a week ago got a new lease of life after undergoing a non-invasive endoscopic foreign body removal procedure at a city veterinary clinic on Thursday. ...
8 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata experiences a pleasant day on , with temperatures ranging between and , accompanied by sunny skies and gentle breezes. While the weather conditions are favorable for outdoor activities, the city's air quality remains concerning with an , ...
8 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 29-year-old woman from Picnic Garden lodged a complaint, claiming harassment, molestation and assault by a friend's relative, both online and offline, since Tuesday.The incident reportedly began after the woman met the accused at a cafe while visiting ...
8 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: Mayor Firhad Hakim on Friday criticised a section of KMC buildings department officials for not adhering to court directives on the demolition of unauthorised buildings.A court order directed an executive engineer at the borough level to ensure the ...
8 November 2025 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city's healthcare received a boost with one of its largest private hospitals receiving the Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation. Desun Hospital on E M Bypass became the third major hospital group in Kolkata to receive the accreditation, ...
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