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The strike affected rail and road transport services mainly in Kolkata. Violence occurred throughout the day between the workers of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the BJP. [95] [96] On 2 September, junior doctors marched towards Lalbazar from College Square demanding the resignation of the Kolkata Police Commissioner. Since barricades were ...
A fire at a ski resort hotel (pictured) in Kartalkaya, Turkey, leaves at least 78 people dead and 51 others injured.; A series of attacks by the National Liberation Army in the Catatumbo region of Colombia leaves more than 80 people dead.
Kolkata, [a] also known as Calcutta [b] (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, 80 km (50 mi) west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary financial and commercial centre of eastern and northeastern India. [16]
Four police constables and a private security guard were killed and 20 other people injured when, on 22 January 2002, Islamic militants attacked an American cultural centre in Kolkata, India. The centre houses a library and the American Consulate's public affairs section, which includes the press and cultural teams. [1]
The Metropolitan Building in Kolkata housed the United States Information Service office till 1991. During the Vietnam War, the street outside the consulate was renamed after Ho Chi Minh. In 1995, British journalist John F. Burns characterized it as "one of the most beleaguered American diplomatic posts anywhere." [3]
The bombing of Calcutta was a series of aerial raids carried out by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force on Calcutta, the former capital of British India.The bombing caused significant damages to infrastructure and killed hundreds but failed to achieve its primary goal of significantly disrupting allied supply lines.
Hashimpura massacre happened on 22 May 1987, during the Hindu-Muslim riots in Meerut city in Uttar Pradesh state, India, when 19 personnel of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) allegedly rounded up 42 Muslim youth from the Hashimpura mohalla (locality) of the city, took them in truck to the outskirts, near Murad Nagar, in Ghaziabad ...
The Kolkata Partition Museum is an initiative dedicated to documenting the Partition of India from the Bengal perspective. Dissimilar to the Punjabi context, the Bengal province had been divided twice: once in 1905, and then in 1947. The aftermath of the second partition, as recorded by many historians, unfolded distinctly in postcolonial ...