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Kolkata Police bust container theft gang, five held

KOLKATA: Kolkata Police have busted a thriving racket of criminals who used to steal containers from yards in the Port area. Over the last one week, cops arrested five persons and have recovered two empty stolen containers from a yard in Kidderpore's Hyde Road earlier this year.

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1/3 of foreign prisoners in India lodged in West Bengal jails

KOLKATA: More than one-third of foreign prisoners in India are lodged in different jails across Bengal, the higest in the country. According to recent data released by the National Crime Records Bureau, a total of 1,746 foreign inmates are lodged in Bengal jails.

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Kolkata: Number of children hit by dengue doubles in 2 weeks

KOLKATA: The number of children affected by dengue has doubled in a span of about two weeks. When hospitals across the city started getting these children from August onwards, the count was only a handful.

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Bengaluru FC win maiden Durand Cup title, beat Mumbai City FC 2-1 in final

KOLKATA: Bengaluru FC and their talismanic captain Sunil Chhetri won their maiden Durand Cup football tournament title after beating Mumbai City FC 2-1 in the summit clash at the Salt Lake Stadium here on Sunday.

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Bengaluru FC win maiden Durand Cup title, beat Mumbai City FC 3-1 in final

KOLKATA: Bengaluru FC and their talismanic captain Sunil Chhetri won their maiden Durand Cup football tournament title after beating Mumbai City FC 3-1 in the summit clash at the Salt Lake Stadium here on Sunday.

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Igor Stimac set to continue as Indian men's football team head coach till AFC Asian Cup next July

KOLKATA: Croatian Igor Stimac is set to continue as Indian football team head coach with the Technical Committee of All India Football Federation (AIFF) on Sunday recommending the extension of his contract till the end of AFC Asian Cup in July next year.

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Bhutia smells ‘bargaining’ in AIFF Secretary-General appointment

Bhaichung Bhutia has requested the AIFF to include the issue of Shaji Prabhakaran’s appointment raised by him in the agenda of Executive Committee meeting to be held in Kolkata on September 19

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'Jungle raj' prevails in TMC-ruled West Bengal: BJP delegation member

KOLKATA: ‘Jungle raj' prevails under the TMC rule in West Bengal, a BJP delegation member said on Saturday after visiting saffron party workers injured during its recent march to state secretariat Nabanna.

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Kolkata: Protest blocks College Street, halts ambulance

KOLKATA: A protest by a political party at College Square on Friday afternoon was stopped by the police at its place of origin.

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Yusuf Pathan stars as India Maharajas win charity match

KOLKATA: Yusuf Pathan smashed an unbeaten fifty as India Maharajas defeated World Giants by six wickets in a special charity match here on Friday.

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CBI custody for former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee till September 21

KOLKATA: Former Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee and former West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) president Kalyanmoy Ganguly, both accused in the alleged scam relating to state-run school jobs, were on Friday remanded in CBI custody till September 21.

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Kolkata: Nigerian held for Rs 10 lakh fraud

KOLKATA: The cyber cell of Kolkata Police has arrested a Nigerian national, Ikone Philip Chiedozie (39), from New Delhi for reportedly duping a Kolkata woman of Rs 10 lakh. The accused posed as a wealthy foreigner and falsely promised to marry the victim. "Electronic devices and a few cards have…

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Resistance begins to build against West Bengal’s new rules for school uniforms

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At the Dogathon walk on September 18, keep pace with your furry friends to raise funds for animal welfare NGOs

Dogathon is a three-kilometre walk that will simultaneously take place across nine cities: Chennai, Bengaluru, Delhi, Mumbai, Gurugram, Chandigarh, Kolkata, Pune and Ahmedabad

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West Bengal: CBI nabs one more accused in Jhalda councillor murder case

KOLKATA: The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested one more absconding accused - Sashi Bhusan Singh from Muzzafarpur in Bihar in an ongoing investigation of a case related to the murder of Tapan Kandu, the Congress councillor from Jhalda Municipality. One 0.32 pistol and 18 cartridges have been recovered from…

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Inspector General Iqbal Singh Chauhan takes over as Coast Guard Commander in Kolkata

KOLKATA: Inspector General Iqbal Singh Chauhan took over as the Commander Coast Guard Region(North East), Kolkata on Wednesday.

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Mumbai City beat Mohammedan Sporting 1-0, enter Durand Cup final

KOLKATA: A last-gasp goal by Bipin Singh helped Mumbai City FC pip Mohammedan Sporting 1-0 and advance to the Durand Cup final in their maiden appearance here on Wednesday.

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Bengal BJP protest | Four arrested in assault of Kolkata police officer; State lawless under Mamata Banerjee, says BJP

ACP Debajit Chattopadhyay was chased and assaulted with sticks by some people in the Bowbazar area during the BJP’s ‘March to Nabanna’ rally on September 13

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Trade with India saw single-biggest jump among 15 nations in the past year: U.S. envoy

In 2021, overall U.S.-India bilateral trade in goods and services was $157 billion, as per official data

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‘Berserk Janata Party hits the town’: Kolkata newspapers on violence during Nabanna march

Dramatic scenes played out yesterday on the streets of Howrah and Kolkata when Bharatiya Janata Party supporters tried to march to the state secretariat. BJP leaders were detained, the police fired teargas and water cannons to dispel the protesters, a police vehicle was set on fire, and there were instances…

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Calcutta High Court allows West Bengal government’s grant to Durga puja committees

The Court, while emphasising that the stand of the State is that the disbursement of the fund is for “public purpose” said that grant should be strictly utilised for the purpose.

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MasterChef’s Michael Weldon cooks Indian food with native Australian ingredients

As he travels the country for the ongoing Taste of Australia campaign, chef Michael Weldon will recreate favourites from Down Under at a pop-up in Bengaluru this week

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Ravi Bishnoi has got age on his side; should now perform to become undroppable: Sunil Gavaskar

NEW DELHI: With his sharp googly and attacking mindset, young leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi has been one of the finds for India in T20Is this year. Since his debut against the West Indies in Kolkata this year, where he bagged the 'Player of the Match' award, Bishnoi has picked 16 wickets…

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Nabanna Abhiyan: Clash between BJP workers, police in Raniganj, Bolpur in WB; several detained

A clash broke out between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers and Police outside the Raniganj railway station as workers leave for Kolkata to take part in Nabanna Abhiyan on Tuesday. Read more on Dynamite News:

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ED issues fresh summons to TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee's kin after wrong notice calls her at midnight

Kolkata The Enforcement Directorate (ED) was left red-faced when Maneka Gambhir, the sister-in-law o

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