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The hills, they are burning elsewhere too…

Can you imagine a world without any shops or cars? Where the streets are empty except when a herd of people shouting slogans pass by the town square twice every day. A shor...

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Human Rights

#GoodNews: Murshidabad Children Set Example In Local Governance

Devising a development strategy is no child’s play. Institutionalising it on the ground is far more difficult. When such a strategy is brought about by children in th...

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Trending

With This Low-Cost Arsenic Water Filter, An IIT Kharagpur Professor Wants To Helps Lakhs Of Indians

In 2004, Sirshendu De, a professor at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, started to work towards saving those from underprivileged backgrounds in West Bengal ...

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Retroscope

Renaming Places And Roads!!!

The practice of renaming is often a political gimmick. Or it may be some individual politician’s fetish to grab mileage. The familiar ritual has existed for year...

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Health

States With Higher Female Literacy Have Healthier Women

States with higher literacy rates for woman see better indicators for women’s health, IndiaSpend analysis of data from the National Family Health Survey 2013-14 revea...

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Festivals

22nd Kolkata International Film Festival To Focus On China

China will feature as the focus country in the 22nd edition of the Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF), organisers said on Thursday, emphasising cinema’s reach...

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Alternative Entertainment

#Traveltales: Exploring Naya, Bengal’s Village Of Singing Painters

An intricate tapestry of music and visual art is what makes Naya more than just a village in West Bengal’s Paschim Midnapore district. A quaint little village, Naya i...

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Alternative Entertainment

TBI Blogs: How The 800-Year-Old Dance Form Of Chau Is Being Kept Alive In West Bengal

Chau is a tribal dance in Bengal that has achieved the status of a classical dance, thanks to foresight of its passionate artistes.
It is that time of the year wh...

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Human Rights

Trafficked Girl Becomes International Child Rights Activist

An 18-year-old girl, who was trafficked from the remote islands of Sundarbans in West Bengal, is today an international child rights crusader and has been invited twice to ...

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Human Rights

Bengal Has Most Cases Of Missing Children

West Bengal has the largest number of missing children in the country, the majority of them girls, the most recent data released by the Centre show. The Union Ministry of H...

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