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Ranji Trophy: Mukesh Kumar returns to boost Bengal against Baroda

KOLKATA: Bengal bowlers have their task cut out against Baroda batters, who have been scoring runs in buckets this season, when they meet in a Ranji Trophy Elite Group ‘A’ match at the Bengal Cricket Academy (BCA) ground in Kalyani from Tuesday.

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Special Report: Cities after colonialism

Cities in former colonies are now among the biggest and fastest-growing in the world and need to be prepared for unpredictable futures.

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Sex workers and the city: The fight for rights

Organisation and solidarity are critical to ensuring the rights of sex-workers.

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A city's hope, despair and anger on big screen

Mrinal Sen’s films on Kolkata are a nuanced reading of middle-class hopes and aspirations in post-colonial India.

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Kolkata's domestic workers left insecure

Cities cannot function without domestic workers in India but their employment conditions remain precarious.

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Bland warehouses hide the heart of a city

What makes cities work? It is not the historic monuments or grand architecture but something far more prosaic.

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Sprawling Kolkata's tall order for a sustainable future

Colonial planning was about attracting people to Kolkata, post-colonial planning is more about crisis management.

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How riots formed Kolkata's ghettos

Communal violence has led to clear territorial demarcation of space, access, and resources, marking the everyday experience of minority citizenship in Kolkata.

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ISL: Odisha FC eye an encore against East Bengal

In the first leg of the fixture at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata, Odisha FC bagged all three points on offer, to the disappointment of the home fans, with their third comeback win of the season.

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Beitia threat looms as Vicuna's Mohammedan Sporting eye fresh start

KOLKATA: Former I-League-winning coach Kibu Vicuna's reign at Mohammedan Sporting begins with a tricky test against Rajasthan United FC at the Ambedkar Stadium in New Delhi on Friday.

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Kolkata to host first Meeting of Global Partnership For Financial Inclusion Working Group on Jan 9-11

The G20 India on Wednesday said the first Meeting of Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI) Working Group of G20 under the Finance Track under India's G20 Presidency would be hosted in Kolkata. Read on for details:

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East Bengal's target in ISL is to be at top 6: Cleiton Silva

KOLKATA: Cleiton Silva presents a curious case of East Bengal's campaign in the ongoing Indian Super League campaign.

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Ranji Trophy: Abhimanyu Easwaran celebrates homecoming with century

KOLKATA: Abhimanyu Easwaran made his homecoming memorable by hitting an unbeaten 141 against hosts Uttarakhand on Day I of their Ranji Trophy Elite Group ‘A’ match at the Abhimanyu Cricket Academy ground in Dehradun on Tuesday.

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The man who spotted MS Dhoni no more

KOLKATA: Former Bengal skipper Prakash Chandra Poddar, commonly known as PC Poddar On the Kolkata Maidan, passed away recently in the city at the age of 82. A former first-class cricketer Poddar, who played 74 matches between 1960 and 1977, scoring 3836 runs with 11 centuries, however, is best remembered…

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Ranji Trophy: Bengal to seek ‘home’ advantage against Uttarakhand

KOLKATA: Abhimanyu Easwaran is back where it all began for him. The opener will walk into the history books becoming the first cricketer to play a first-class game at a stadium named after him, when on Tuesday he walks out with his Bengal teammates to face Uttarakhand in a Ranji…

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CBI probes Birbhum Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata Mandal's complicity in Bogtui Carnage in West Bengal

KOLKATA: The CBI on Monday alleged that Birbhum Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata Mandal had called up Anarul Hossain — one of the accused persons in the Bogtui carnage — on the day of the incident.

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Bengal gets 10th GM, India 78th in Koustav Chatterjee

KOLKATA: The new year brought happy news for Bengal chess as Koustav Chatterjee became the country's 78th Grandmaster late on Saturday night. The Kolkata boy took the state's GM count to double digits by drawing with statemate GM Mirtabha Guha, who incidentally was Bengal's last and ninth GM, in Round…

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Air quality remains 'very poor' in Kolkata on New Year's Day

KOLKATA: Air quality in Kolkata remained 'very poor' on New Year's Day on Sunday as revellers burst firecrackers after midnight.

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Aliah University student run over by car in West Bengal, friends stage protest

KOLKATA: An Aliah University student was killed after being run over by a speeding car near the institute's New Town campus on Sunday, police said.

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RIP Pele: Adeus the King of the beautiful game

A rare interaction in Kolkata reveals why Pele held millions spellbound...

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After cremating mother, PM Narendra Modi virtually flags off infra projects for West Bengal

KOLKATA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually flagged off a host of infra projects, designed to add speed to Bengal and Kolkata, immediately after his mother’s cremation in Gandhinagar on Friday as West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and a host of other CMs physically attended the programmes…

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Debutant Lal picks five in Bengal's big win vs Nagaland

KOLKATA: Karan Lal joined an elite club of debutant players to claim five wickets in an innings and help Bengal beat Nagaland by an innings and 161 runs in their Elite Group 'A' Ranji Trophy match at Sovima, on the outskirts of Dimapur, on Thursday. The big win ensured the…

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East Bengal look to end year on a high

KOLKATA: Emami East Bengal will look to end the year on a winning note as well as record their first home victory in the ongoing ISL season when they clash with Bengaluru FC at the Salt Lake Stadium here on Friday. They will definitely fancy their chances against a side…

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Ranji Trophy: Twin tons put Bengal in command vs Nagaland

KOLKATA: Bengal batters plundered runs in plenty to take control of their Ranji Trophy Elite Group 'A' match against Nagaland in Sovima, on the outskirts of Dimapur on Wednesday. Left-arm spinner Pradipta Pramanik finished with a career-best six-wicket haul as clean bowled overnight unbeaten batter Chopise Hopongkyu in the fourth…

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ISL: ATK Mohun Bagan end FC Goa's three game unbeaten run

KOLKATA: ATK Mohun Bagan snapped FC Goa's three-match unbeaten run in the Indian Super League with a 2-1 win here on Wednesday.

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