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Minister Quells Acting Dreams

This is one fire Bengal’s fire services minister stopped even before it started.

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13 Mar 2010 | BY Jaideep Mazumdar
Riot Wear for Tiger Poop Scoopers

It’s a sight that would surely have puzzled Sundarbans’ Royal Bengal Tigers: scores of men clad in strange black gear bent doubly over searching for the big cats’ poop.

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13 Mar 2010 | BY Jaideep Mazumdar
Carbon Fix

Coal has made a select few in Meghalaya very rich. It is also creating a mess that nobody wants to own up to.

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13 Mar 2010 | BY Jaideep Mazumdar
When Hitler Took a Bow

Shantigopal Pal rewrote jatra history by taking Hitler, Lenin and Marx to Bengal’s villages. As he takes his final bow, it’s time for a standing ovation.

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13 Mar 2010 | BY Jaideep Mazumdar
Uniformed Mess

The Maoist attack on the EFR camp at Silda has stirred more trouble for the West Bengal government.

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6 Mar 2010 | BY Jaideep Mazumdar
The Monks Who Built a Bridge

The old Bally bridge spanning the Hooghly has been virtually abandoned by the state Public Works Department and the National Highways Authority of India ever since the new one beside it came up.

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6 Mar 2010 | BY Jaideep Mazumdar
Ticket to Mahanayak Uttam Kumar, Please

Mother Teresa, Tipu Sultan, Uttam Kumar and Bahadur Shah Zafar have one thing in common—all have train stations named after them in Kolkata.

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6 Mar 2010 | BY Jaideep Mazumdar
For Shiva’s Sake

Bet Mamata Banerjee doesn’t know this: there’s a hamlet on a narrow-gauge link between Katwa and Ahmedpur in Bengal’s Birbhum district where trains stop for only one week in a year.

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6 Mar 2010 | BY Jaideep Mazumdar
Maoism on the Line

India’s Maoists pulled off another PR coup when elusive rebel leader Kishenji publicly gave Union Home Minister P Chidambaram a number to call on to discuss the terms of negotiations.

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6 Mar 2010 | BY Jaideep Mazumdar
No Cozy Deal

The ghost of Rizwanur Rehman still haunts the Todis and their innerwear company, Lux Cozi. Even SRK can’t exorcise it.

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27 Feb 2010 | BY Jaideep Mazumdar
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