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Bengali Actors Protest Overnight Over Kolkata Doctor's Rape-Murder
Film director Aparna Sen, prominent personalities from the Bengali film industry and rights activists on Sunday joined thousands of people in a massive rally demanding justice for a doctor who was raped-murdered at RG Kar hospital here last month.
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Efforts Being Made To Normalise Islamophobia: Arundhati Roy
Drawing a parallel between Nazi Germany and present-day India, author-activist Arundhati Roy said she was happy to see that students have come out on the streets in large numbers to protest against the government's "divisive" citizenship law and proposed nationwide NRC.
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Protests After Satirical Bengali Film Pulled Out Of Theatres Post Release
Film buffs and youth activists on Sunday joined a sit-in protest against the withdrawal of director Anik Dutta's film "Bhobishyoter Bhoot" (Ghost of the Future) from almost all multiplexes and single screen theatres in West Bengal.
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Man Masturbates On Kolkata Bus, Caught After Woman Puts Video On Facebook
For once, brazen impunity was met with swift justice. A man masturbating on a public bus in Kolkata was filmed by a young woman who was the object of his criminal act around noon on Saturday. She then posted the video on her Facebook timeline and the page of the Kolkata Police demanding justice.
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SRFTI Director Says Ready To Talk With Students
The Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute is ready to hold talks with agitating students on all issues but will not budge from its decision of shifting women to a separate hostel, its Director, Debamitra Mitra, said today.
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Satyajit Ray Institute Stalemate On, Director 'Barred' From Entering Campus
The agitation by students at the Satyajit Ray Fim and Television Institute (SRFTI) continued for the seventh day today as the director alleged she was denied entry to the campus by a section of agitating students.
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Protests Over Student Expulsion Carries On Into It's Second Day At SRFTI
The Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute in Kolkata continued to be on boil on Wednesday as students' protests against authorities over "moral policing" and "gender-based segregation" rocked the campus for a second day following the expulsion of 14 girl students.
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West Bengal Governor to visit Presidency University today
West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan will visit Presidency University in Kolkata today, two days after a mob stormed the campus and used spears and other weapons to attack students and property. Though the Trinamool has denied any links to that violence, a local councillor from the party was filmed at the entrance as the mob scaled the gate in an atte...
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Protests against anti-Islam film at US Consulate in Kolkata
Hundreds of Muslims marched towards the American Centre in Kolkata today to protest against an anti-Islam video and to demand that the US authorities apologise for it.
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Bengali Actors Protest Overnight Over Kolkata Doctor's Rape-Murder
Film director Aparna Sen, prominent personalities from the Bengali film industry and rights activists on Sunday joined thousands of people in a massive rally demanding justice for a doctor who was raped-murdered at RG Kar hospital here last month.
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Efforts Being Made To Normalise Islamophobia: Arundhati Roy
Drawing a parallel between Nazi Germany and present-day India, author-activist Arundhati Roy said she was happy to see that students have come out on the streets in large numbers to protest against the government's "divisive" citizenship law and proposed nationwide NRC.
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Protests After Satirical Bengali Film Pulled Out Of Theatres Post Release
Film buffs and youth activists on Sunday joined a sit-in protest against the withdrawal of director Anik Dutta's film "Bhobishyoter Bhoot" (Ghost of the Future) from almost all multiplexes and single screen theatres in West Bengal.
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Man Masturbates On Kolkata Bus, Caught After Woman Puts Video On Facebook
For once, brazen impunity was met with swift justice. A man masturbating on a public bus in Kolkata was filmed by a young woman who was the object of his criminal act around noon on Saturday. She then posted the video on her Facebook timeline and the page of the Kolkata Police demanding justice.
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SRFTI Director Says Ready To Talk With Students
The Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute is ready to hold talks with agitating students on all issues but will not budge from its decision of shifting women to a separate hostel, its Director, Debamitra Mitra, said today.
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Satyajit Ray Institute Stalemate On, Director 'Barred' From Entering Campus
The agitation by students at the Satyajit Ray Fim and Television Institute (SRFTI) continued for the seventh day today as the director alleged she was denied entry to the campus by a section of agitating students.
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Protests Over Student Expulsion Carries On Into It's Second Day At SRFTI
The Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute in Kolkata continued to be on boil on Wednesday as students' protests against authorities over "moral policing" and "gender-based segregation" rocked the campus for a second day following the expulsion of 14 girl students.
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West Bengal Governor to visit Presidency University today
West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan will visit Presidency University in Kolkata today, two days after a mob stormed the campus and used spears and other weapons to attack students and property. Though the Trinamool has denied any links to that violence, a local councillor from the party was filmed at the entrance as the mob scaled the gate in an atte...
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Protests against anti-Islam film at US Consulate in Kolkata
Hundreds of Muslims marched towards the American Centre in Kolkata today to protest against an anti-Islam video and to demand that the US authorities apologise for it.
