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Kolkata Police Officer Injured As Protests Outside New Market Turn Violent
A senior police officer was hit on the head by a brick hurled by BJP workers during a protest in front of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation today. Deputy Commissioner of Police Devendra P Singh, who was not wearing a helmet, was at the protest using a megaphone asking protestors to disperse when a brick flew straight at him and hit his head.
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Fear of Losing Customers May Force Kolkata's Iconic New Market to Shut Shops for 3 Days
It's a 141 years old and one of Kolkata's best known landmarks. But shopkeepers of the New Market are so plagued by a spurt in the number of hawkers in the area that they will down the shutters for 72 hours starting tomorrow morning.
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Durga Puja holiday in West Bengal means no newspapers for 4 days
West Bengal will go without newspapers for four days - from October 22 to the 25 - because newspaper hawkers want Durga Puja holidays. Since hawkers won't distribute dailies, newspaper houses will also stay shut for four days.
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Kolkata Police Officer Injured As Protests Outside New Market Turn Violent
A senior police officer was hit on the head by a brick hurled by BJP workers during a protest in front of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation today. Deputy Commissioner of Police Devendra P Singh, who was not wearing a helmet, was at the protest using a megaphone asking protestors to disperse when a brick flew straight at him and hit his head.
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Fear of Losing Customers May Force Kolkata's Iconic New Market to Shut Shops for 3 Days
It's a 141 years old and one of Kolkata's best known landmarks. But shopkeepers of the New Market are so plagued by a spurt in the number of hawkers in the area that they will down the shutters for 72 hours starting tomorrow morning.
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Durga Puja holiday in West Bengal means no newspapers for 4 days
West Bengal will go without newspapers for four days - from October 22 to the 25 - because newspaper hawkers want Durga Puja holidays. Since hawkers won't distribute dailies, newspaper houses will also stay shut for four days.
