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Protestors at a makeshift memorial before a protest march in Kolkata. On 9 August 2024, a 31-year-old female postgraduate trainee doctor [4] at R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, was raped and murdered in a college building. Her body was found in a seminar room on campus.
On December 11, 2013, Devyani Khobragade, then the Deputy Consul General of the Consulate General of India in New York City, was charged by U.S. authorities with committing visa fraud and providing false statements in order to gain entry to the United States for Sangeeta Richard, [1] a woman of Indian nationality, for employment as a domestic worker for Khobragade in New York. [2]
On 30 May 1990, a team of three health officers were returning to Kolkata after inspecting an immunization program in Gosaba. [1] [2] The team consisted of Anita Dewan, the Deputy District Extension Media Officer of the West Bengal Health Department; Uma Ghosh, a senior officer of the Health Department; and Renu Ghosh, a representative of UNICEF's World Health Organization office in New Delhi.
Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids is a 2004 Indian-American documentary film about the children of prostitutes in Sonagachi, Kolkata's red light district.The widely acclaimed film, written and directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, won a string of accolades including the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2005.
The Diary of West Bengal [2] is a 2024 Indian Hindi-language political drama film directed by Sanoj Mishra and produced by Jitendra Narayan Singh Tyagi.The film features executive producer, Rajdular Rajesh Mishra and the cast includes Yajur Marwah, Arshin Mehta, Dev Fauzdar, Dr. Ramendra Chakarwarti, Gauri Shankar, Deepak kamboj, Neet Mahal, Avadh Ashwini, Ronav Verma and Ashish Kumar.
The Black Hole of Calcutta is referenced early in the film Albert R.N., a 1953 British film dealing with a German prisoner-of-war camp for allied naval officers. There's also a reference in the 1987 film Hiding Out, where the protagonist's aunt criticizes her teenage son's messy room by comparing it to the Black Hole.
Aminoor Ali. Bhutto Molla. Enamul Molla. Amin Ali. Gopal Naskar. Bholanath Naskar. On 7 June 2013, a 20-year-old college student was abducted, gang-raped and murdered in Kamduni village, 16km from Barasat, North 24 Parganas district about 20km from main Kolkata. In January 2016 the accused were sentenced to death and life imprisonment.
The events of July 21, 1993, were a pivotal moment in Mamata Banerjee's rise to power. The protest and the deaths of the 13 individuals became a rallying point for her political career. Since coming to power, Banerjee has commemorated July 21 every year as Martyrs' Day in West Bengal. However, the designation of the 13 victims as "martyrs" has ...