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Talking about revolutions with NFA awardee Bedabrata Pain
In 1930, a schoolteacher named Surya Sen led a raid against the British armoury located in Chittagong, in Bengal. Although Sen’s plan didn’t pan out as he had hoped, the Chittagong uprising remains one of the more hair-raising attempts to shake off colonial shackles. The dramatic events of the raid and #Bedabrata Pain #Chittagong #National Film Award #Sonali Bose #VeryCloseUp
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Bihar to bring social security plan for traders: Nitish Kumar
Patna: The Bihar government is going to implement a social security plan for traders as part of which those paying regular taxes would be given a Rs 2 lakh assistance in the event of death in accident, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said today. Kumar underlined importance of trading community in development #Bihar Chief Minister #NewsTracker #Nitish Kumar
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Second FIR filed against TMC MP Kunal Ghosh
Kolkata: A second FIR has been filed against Kunal Ghosh by employees of a closed Bengali daily, Sakalbela, owned by the Saradha Group for non-payment of salaries, with the Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member offering to resign. Police sources said that the employees of the newspaper filed the FIR against Ghosh #Kunal Ghosh #Mamata Banerjee #NewsTracker #Saradha Group #Saradha Group Chairman Sudipta Sen #Trinamool Congress
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Dear Mumbai Police, thank you for coffee and conversation
Last Sunday an incident shook Kima, a 32-year old game developer from Mizoram, that caused him to lose his faith in Mumbai. Four days later, over two rounds of coffee and tasty poha at the Malbar Hill Police Station, he was assured that Mumbai had not deserted him. Firstpost had carried #ChangeAgent #Malabar Hill #Malbar Hill #Mizoram #Mumbai #North East India #racist abuse
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Terror cases and the media: Not enough objectivity?
Is the media responsible for the victimisation of Muslim youth by the police and the investigating agencies in the event of a bomb blast or a terrorist attack? Yes, said Muthiurrahman Siddiqui, one of the men picked up by the Andhra Pradesh Police on false charges of being in cahoots with
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Kolkata bridge collapse: Whose bridge is it anyway?
Nothing had prepared Kolkata for what it saw on Sunday morning. A 128-feet-wide chasm in the middle of the VIP Road-Ultadanga flyover, one that connects the vital artery of Kolkata, EM Bypass to the Kolkata Airport. A section of the bridge - a 156 tonne concrete slab- collapsed along with #EM Bypass #Kolkata #Kolkata airport #Left Front government #Trinamool Congress #West Bengal government #WhyNow
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Howrah, best in healthcare! Where did that come from?
If you are from Howrah, you will always carry certain tags with you all your life. Playing second fiddle to the twin city of Kolkata is just one of them. But little did I imagine that the best healthcare in India would also be one of them. Well thanks to #Cities #Healthcare in India #Howrah #India Today Survey #WhyNow
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UP to Bihar: Why a group of rural women journalists went online
When a team of rural women journalists based in the heartland of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar want to take their news to the world, what do they do? They turn to the world wide web - and do it in Hindi and Bundeli. The publication - Khabar Lahariya - is #Bundelkhand #Caste system in India #Gender discrimination #Khabar Lahariya #ThingsWeLike
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Remembering 1992: Six films explore the riots of Mumbai and its aftermath
Piyush Garud was only four years old when he witnessed four armed men chasing a lone man down the streets during the Mumbai riots in 1992-93 after the demolition of the Babri Masjid. Twenty years after the riots that shook the 'Maximum City' to its core, he has made a #1993 Mumbai riots #Mumbai #Shiv Sena #WhyNow
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Mumbai’s development plan: No place for poor?
Can Mumbai's new Development Plan (DP) for the next 20 years, which will determine land usage policy and resource utilisation for the next two decades, be made without consulting the largest section of population in the city - the slum dwellers? Though they constitute 70 percent of the population of the #Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation #Development Plan #M Ward East #Mumbai #public utilities #WhyNow