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Man Who Inspired 'City Of Joy' Book Still Working For India's Poor At 86
Decades after inspiring a best-selling novel that brought readers into slums near Kolkata, 86-year-old ascetic Gaston Dayanand is still working for India's poorest.
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Fire Breaks Out On Kolkata Outskirts, 10 Fire Engines Dispatched
A massive fire broke out at a slum in Salt Lake, on the outskirts of Kolkata on Sunday evening.
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Mamata Banerjee Visits Kolkata Slum Destroyed In Fire, Promises To Rebuild Shanties
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday visited a gutted slum in north Kolkata's Bagbazar area and assured the dwellers that their shanties will be rebuilt by her government.
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Massive Fire At Kolkata's Baghbazar, 25 Fire Engines At The Spot
A massive fire broke out in north Kolkata's Baghbazar area this evening. 25 fire engines are at the spot trying to bring the fire under control which broke out at a slum in the area.
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At Least 50 Huts Burnt In 2 Fire Incidents In Bengal On Diwali Day
Around 50 shanties in New Town area near Kolkata and Purba Bardhaman district were burnt in two incidents of fire on the day of Kali puja and Diwali on Saturday, officials said.
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Kolkata Slum Fire: At least 50-60 Huts Burnt, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Visits Spot
Around 50-60 shanties were completely gutted in a major fire that broke out in Kolkata's Topsia area today afternoon, a fire department official said.
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Kolkata Children, Who Once Aspired To Be Doctors, Teacher, Now Cook-Clean For Survival
At a slum of about 40 plastic covered shacks next to the tracks of Majerhat Railway Station in Kolkata, 15-year-old Priyanka Khatoon has trouble remembering the name of her school. This isn't surprising as she hasn't been to school since March 25 when the nationwide lockdown was imposed to take on the coronavirus pandemic.
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Miss England 2019 Bhasha Mukherjee, Born In Kolkata, Helps Raise Funds For City Children
Indian-origin Miss England 2019 Bhasha Mukherjee helped raise funds for a UK charity working with street-connected and slum children in Kolkata as part of her beauty with a purpose mission.
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With New Addresses, Kolkata Slum Dwellers Unlock Opportunities
With more than 2,300 one-room brick homes and shops, Panchanantala in Kolkata is densely populated. The homes are tin roofs and crammed with stoves, trunks and furniture. With the intervention of Addressing the Unaddressed, a Dublin-based non-profit organisation, people got their own addresses in Kolkata’s slums. About 16,000 dwellings in nine s...
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2 Killed In Kolkata Slum Fire
Two persons died and 29 shanties gutted when a major fire broke out at a slum on the northern fringes of Kolkata early today.
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Rampage At Kolkata Housing Complex Bruises A Famous Social Harmony
In Kolkata, the driver of a luxury car was on Thursday sent to police custody for two days for killing a scooter rider on Sunday. But the arrest did not calm nerves at an upscale housing complex near the crash site vandalised by people from a nearby slum. The slum people suspected, wrongly, the killer car driver lived there.
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1 Killed In Kolkata Slum Fire Near Dum Dum Park
One person was killed and around 150 huts were gutted in a major slum fire in north Kolkata's Dum Dum Park area on Saturday evening.
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Kolkata: Evicted slum dwellers threaten to exercise NOTA option
More than 300 families, who were evicted from a slum in Kolkata's eastern part to make way for an upcoming flyover, have threatened to use the 'None of the Above' or NOTA option in the Lok Sabha election if they are not rehabilitated by the state government.
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In Kolkata, man sets 10-year-old on fire after he allegedly tries to molest her
Residents of a slum in Howrah were shocked last evening to suddenly see a young girl, all aflame, running to a pool of water and jumping into it.
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700 shanties gutted in fire
Around 700 shanties were gutted in a fire in the Santoshpur-Maheshtala area on the outskirts of the city today, leaving more than a thousand people homeless.
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Man Who Inspired 'City Of Joy' Book Still Working For India's Poor At 86
Decades after inspiring a best-selling novel that brought readers into slums near Kolkata, 86-year-old ascetic Gaston Dayanand is still working for India's poorest.
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Fire Breaks Out On Kolkata Outskirts, 10 Fire Engines Dispatched
A massive fire broke out at a slum in Salt Lake, on the outskirts of Kolkata on Sunday evening.
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Mamata Banerjee Visits Kolkata Slum Destroyed In Fire, Promises To Rebuild Shanties
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday visited a gutted slum in north Kolkata's Bagbazar area and assured the dwellers that their shanties will be rebuilt by her government.
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Massive Fire At Kolkata's Baghbazar, 25 Fire Engines At The Spot
A massive fire broke out in north Kolkata's Baghbazar area this evening. 25 fire engines are at the spot trying to bring the fire under control which broke out at a slum in the area.
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At Least 50 Huts Burnt In 2 Fire Incidents In Bengal On Diwali Day
Around 50 shanties in New Town area near Kolkata and Purba Bardhaman district were burnt in two incidents of fire on the day of Kali puja and Diwali on Saturday, officials said.
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Kolkata Slum Fire: At least 50-60 Huts Burnt, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Visits Spot
Around 50-60 shanties were completely gutted in a major fire that broke out in Kolkata's Topsia area today afternoon, a fire department official said.
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Kolkata Children, Who Once Aspired To Be Doctors, Teacher, Now Cook-Clean For Survival
At a slum of about 40 plastic covered shacks next to the tracks of Majerhat Railway Station in Kolkata, 15-year-old Priyanka Khatoon has trouble remembering the name of her school. This isn't surprising as she hasn't been to school since March 25 when the nationwide lockdown was imposed to take on the coronavirus pandemic.
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Miss England 2019 Bhasha Mukherjee, Born In Kolkata, Helps Raise Funds For City Children
Indian-origin Miss England 2019 Bhasha Mukherjee helped raise funds for a UK charity working with street-connected and slum children in Kolkata as part of her beauty with a purpose mission.
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With New Addresses, Kolkata Slum Dwellers Unlock Opportunities
With more than 2,300 one-room brick homes and shops, Panchanantala in Kolkata is densely populated. The homes are tin roofs and crammed with stoves, trunks and furniture. With the intervention of Addressing the Unaddressed, a Dublin-based non-profit organisation, people got their own addresses in Kolkata’s slums. About 16,000 dwellings in nine s...
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2 Killed In Kolkata Slum Fire
Two persons died and 29 shanties gutted when a major fire broke out at a slum on the northern fringes of Kolkata early today.
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Rampage At Kolkata Housing Complex Bruises A Famous Social Harmony
In Kolkata, the driver of a luxury car was on Thursday sent to police custody for two days for killing a scooter rider on Sunday. But the arrest did not calm nerves at an upscale housing complex near the crash site vandalised by people from a nearby slum. The slum people suspected, wrongly, the killer car driver lived there.
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1 Killed In Kolkata Slum Fire Near Dum Dum Park
One person was killed and around 150 huts were gutted in a major slum fire in north Kolkata's Dum Dum Park area on Saturday evening.
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Kolkata: Evicted slum dwellers threaten to exercise NOTA option
More than 300 families, who were evicted from a slum in Kolkata's eastern part to make way for an upcoming flyover, have threatened to use the 'None of the Above' or NOTA option in the Lok Sabha election if they are not rehabilitated by the state government.
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In Kolkata, man sets 10-year-old on fire after he allegedly tries to molest her
Residents of a slum in Howrah were shocked last evening to suddenly see a young girl, all aflame, running to a pool of water and jumping into it.
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700 shanties gutted in fire
Around 700 shanties were gutted in a fire in the Santoshpur-Maheshtala area on the outskirts of the city today, leaving more than a thousand people homeless.
