Calcutta
Capital of West Bengal state, former capital (1773–1912) of British India, Calcutta (in Bengali, Kalikata) is India's largest metropolitan area and a major port. Founded in 1690...
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Staring off in a nice, clean hotel in Calcutta, everything seems quite normal and one would not be able to tell there was an urbanisation problem, but you would be wrong. Calcutta is a typical e...
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New Delhi (dpa) - Violent clashes broke out between rioting Muslim
protestors and the police in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata
Wednesday, bringing the commercial distric...
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KOLKATA, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Riot police fired tear gas to
disperse violent protesters in the eastern city of Kolkata on
Wednesday as fresh trouble broke out in a political row over
the killing of ...
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New Delhi (dpa) - The army continued to patrol the streets along
with the police in India's eastern city of Kolkata on Thursday as
life returned to normal after a day of vio...
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New Delhi (dpa) - Firemen and soldiers on Monday made frantic
efforts to control an inferno raging in India's largest wholesale
market in eastern Kolkata city which has gutt...
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stopped in the Indian city of
Kolkata on Thursday on his way from New Delhi to Malaysia and
reminisced about his late grandfather, former P...
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New Delhi (dpa) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in
India's eastern city of Kolkata on Thursday for a day-long visit
during which he was scheduled to inaugurate ...
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KOLKATA, India, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Shops reopened, children
returned to school and a curfew was lifted in the east Indian
city of Kolkata on Thursday after the army patrolled the
streets to quell ...
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New Delhi (dpa) - Prayers were held at the headquarters of the
Missionaries of Charity in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata
Wednesday to pay homage to Mother Teresa on the ...
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New Delhi (dpa) - Indian army soldiers marched through the streets
of the eastern metropolis of Kolkata Wednesday in an effort to
restore peace in pockets of the city that s...
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Calcutta
Calcutta - Urbanisation
Police, Muslim protestors clash in Kolkata
