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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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Bullion and jewellery markets strike enters eighth day
Bullion and jewellery markets remained closed for eight straight to protest imposition of excise duty on unbranded jewellery and doubling of import duty on gold.
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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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Bullion and jewellery markets strike enters eighth day
Bullion and jewellery markets remained closed for eight straight to protest imposition of excise duty on unbranded jewellery and doubling of import duty on gold.
