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Apr 10, 2018 15:27A row erupted after the West Bengal poll panel recalled its Monday decision extending the last date for filing of nominations for next month’s panchayat election. read more
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Apr 05, 2018 13:22The panchayat polls will be a curtain-raiser for next year’s Lok Sabha elections. While the BJP will look to compensate for losses in Rajasthan and Gujarat, Mamata’s men will try to ensure that opponents do not try to encroach on her turf. read more
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Feb 19, 2018 23:09Leaders of the Hindu Samhati, a far right outfit set up by former RSS pracharak, are speaking in favour of the TMC. read more
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Jan 28, 2018 08:04Established in 1906 in Kolkata, Aurora Film Corporation has set many milestones. But in the new digital age, owner Anjan Bose is attempting to reinvent it to stay relevant, and keep the film rolling. read more
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Jan 13, 2018 19:12Poet-curator Nilanjan Bandyopadhyay has embarked on the cross-cultural creative experiment in 2016, the centenary year of the Nobel laureate’s first Japan visit. read more
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Dec 26, 2017 17:24Trinamool Congress leaders point out the party’s popularity graph might have plateaued – the Gujarat polls are an indicator – and there is no reason why would anyone abandon Mamata Banerjee, who is at the pinnacle of her popularity now read more
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Dec 21, 2017 08:57Bangladesh government is worried that the terror elements might sneak into its territory in guise of refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. read more
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Dec 06, 2017 13:07Meeting and reviews where she pulls up officials and ministers has state administration on its toes. read more
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Nov 20, 2017 23:41The GSI’s team in Kolkata had identified diesel exhaust from vehicles as the chief culprit there. read more
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Nov 18, 2017 12:27While Dadasaheb Phalke is remembered as India’s first feature film director, Hiralal Sen, the first Indian to make movies is a completely forgotten man. read more
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Nov 04, 2017 16:20Mukul Roy is not a mass leader, and derived his power from Mamata’s magic. Without that, it is doubtful whether he can display the organisational skills that the BJP expects of him. read more
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Oct 09, 2017 14:16The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) has virtually been split in two, the shutdown is over, and the BJP cannot come out in support of the Gorkhaland demand. Mamata Banerjee appears to have won this one. read more
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Oct 04, 2017 14:04Mamata Banerjee’s identity with Durga puja provided her a first mover political advantage ensuring that the BJP – the principal opponent in West Bengal now – could not occupy that platform, something that was natural for the saffron camp to target read more
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Sep 22, 2017 13:35Still, the West Bengal chief minister is likely to win the support of an overwhelming majority when she claims to take up cudgels to save Bengali culture from the onslaught of the saffron supporters read more
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Sep 21, 2017 14:46The West Bengal government had banned idol immersion after 10pm on September 30, the last day of the five-day festival, and on October 1 on account of Muharram. read more
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Sep 11, 2017 13:35A cursory enquiry about the ethos and practices in Bengal will highlight the futility of the Right-wing umbrage against Jawed Habib’s innocent advertisement Maa Durga arriving for a spa with her family read more
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Aug 18, 2017 16:34To say the Trinamool Congress juggernaut crushed the Opposition in the recently held municipal elections is understating the Opposition’s misery. The BJP came second, but won six wards. The CPI(M) and Congress drew a blank read more
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Jul 15, 2017 13:34CBI carried out searches on the premises of principal commissioner, income tax, Ranchi, Tapas Kumar Dutta, additional commissioner Arvind Kumar and other I-T officials. Besides raids were also conducted on the premises of five Kolkata based businessmen... read more
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Jul 13, 2017 15:41The authorities have floated a tender seeking bids to turn the canteen into a food court. But students of appear united on the point that Pramod-da has to be retained on the campus. read more
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Jul 12, 2017 20:17However, Suman Ghosh will explore his legal options and try persuading censor board officials against chopping off words like ‘cows’ and ‘criminality in Gujarat’ before taking such a step. read more
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Jul 11, 2017 14:21Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and C Rajagopalachari, Gopalkrishna Gandhi does not need to rest on his family name for introduction read more
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Jul 11, 2017 14:21Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and C Rajagopalachari, Gopalkrishna Gandhi does not need to rest on his family name for introduction read more
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Jul 07, 2017 07:11Model and TV anchor Sonika Chauhan has died in a car accident in Kolkata while actor Vikram Chatterjee, who was travelling with her, has been injured. read more
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Jul 03, 2017 15:10The Gorkhaland Movement Coordination Committee that was set up to spearhead the movement for a separate state and will have its first meeting on July 6 will wrestle with the question of keeping up the morale of the agitators. read more
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Jun 15, 2017 12:19Gorkha Janmukti Morcha stocked weapons to resist and attack the police, says official. read more
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Jun 14, 2017 11:04Trouble broke out in Darjeeling over the decades-long demand for a separate state of Gorkhaland as hill parties went on a rampage and torched vehicles. read more
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Jun 08, 2017 15:48Calcutta University students have congratulated the chief minister for declaring the area as a no- protest and no-horn zone. read more
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May 31, 2017 12:44Arvind Kejriwal’s Delhi government had last year decreed that private schools built on Delhi Development Authority land will need its nod before hiking fees. read more
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May 30, 2017 19:01West Bengal today said that its assembly will not move the bills required to roll out the new indirect tax. GST is scheduled to be rolled out on July 1. read more
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May 18, 2017 18:41Six years after it swept to power in West Bengal for the first time, the Trinamool Congress finally established a foothold in a region that had eluded it so far - the hills of north Bengal. read more
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May 17, 2017 09:07Seven civic bodies – four in the hills and three in the plains -- voted on Sunday but the election was marred by unprecedented violence that left several people injured and pit the state’s opposition parties against the Bengal election chief. read more
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Apr 25, 2017 15:12The Narada investigation by the CBI may give Mamata Banerjee more reasons to be worried, a year after the scam was first exposed. read more
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Apr 07, 2017 10:36All opposition leaders without exception in Bengal also concede that the Centre cannot – read should not – do anything that compromises with the interests of Bengal. They also point out that the Centre should have made the first move to study the technical... read more
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Apr 05, 2017 14:04Over the past few years, the steady push of the Sangh Parivar to spread worship of new deities -- Sherawali Mata, Ganesh and now Ram Navami celebrations -- is adding smile to the faces. read more
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Mar 16, 2017 14:30Senior Ramsar official files report, suggests thorough revision of ecology, livelihood and boundary. read more
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Mar 15, 2017 13:58The members of the families of those whom ruling Trinamool Congress describe as Nandigram ‘martyrs’, are still seething in anger. read more
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Mar 12, 2017 10:15Following the BJP’s huge win in UP, the Trinamool Congress in Bengal is apprehensive that the Centre could use the CBI to ‘target’ its leaders for their alleged involvement in graft. read more
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Mar 05, 2017 15:12There seems to be fewer agriculture personnel in the districts who can ensure a fool-proof destruction of each and every strand of the wheat crop. They were visiting the fields but they don’t have enough machines to fell the crops and burn them. read more
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Mar 03, 2017 09:43It amounts to vandalism and should be abandoned forthwith, said Tagore family members, former VCs and artists. read more
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Feb 10, 2017 18:06Debt repayment will consume 81% of the government’s own tax revenue next year. read more
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Feb 01, 2017 14:19The Union budget was heartless and filled with hollow words that meant nothing, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday. read more
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Jan 16, 2017 11:10On January 20 and 21 as Mamata Banerjee holds a roadshow to attract investment to her state, the political climate will be marked by a virtual war between her party and the party at the Centre. read more
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Jan 04, 2017 11:39The arrests in Rose Valley scam have come at a time when Mamata Banerjee is aggressively trying to extend her footprint in Delhi and emerge as a leader of a united opposition. read more
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Jan 03, 2017 13:34A busy and happening nation stood motionless as the common man rediscovered the forgotten art of standing in a queue in 2016. read more
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Dec 27, 2016 10:21Prafulla Kumar De Sarkar, and his book ‘High English Grammar and Composition’ became a bible to countless Bengalis trying to learn correct English. read more
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Dec 22, 2016 13:02It was said that Parasmal Lodha, a Kolkata businessman, had interests in real estate, mostly in the central business district of Dalhousie area and tea gardens. He swore by corporate governance but revealed almost nothing of his own activities. read more
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Nov 15, 2016 11:11This has also been a most momentous week in Mamata Banerjee’s career as she has found the right platform to project herself as a prominent leader in Delhi. read more
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Oct 21, 2016 20:13After the supreme court verdict to return the Nano plot land to farmers in Singur, she is already seen as a fighter for farmer rights. read more
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Oct 07, 2016 14:10Puja revelry is nowhere near the peak if you are digitally unarmed. read more
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Oct 04, 2016 11:41Every year, she inaugurates dozens of community pujas. read more
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Sep 14, 2016 18:51She invited even the vanquished Tatas to build an auto factory on 1,000 acre elsewhere in Bengal. read more
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Sep 11, 2016 14:54Last year in October, Calcutta High Court had scrapped the bail given to Mitra by a lower court and sent him marching back to prison. read more
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Sep 10, 2016 13:15Will offer pushpanjali for the first time on empty stomach. read more
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Aug 30, 2016 15:29A few days ago, Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee ‘liberated’ the citizens of her state from the tyranny of dry days, slashing them from 12 a year – an oppressive one day a month – to a less revolting 4.5. read more
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May 27, 2016 08:57The enormity of the debt West Bengal is burdened with will keep gnawing at Mamata Banerjee’s brains as she takes oath as chief minister on Friday. read more
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May 17, 2016 13:05If the exit polls on Monday evening are anything to go by, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has probably tackled her biggest political challenge so far – the unprecedented Left-Congress alliance – with a measure of success that nobody expe... read more
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Apr 03, 2016 10:51The Bihar model of grand alliance will become complete in Bengal, with the RJD and JDU – fringe parties in the state – joining hands with the Congress and the Left. read more
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Mar 16, 2016 12:37If Saradha was a benchmark, it is most likely that Narada, despite the rhyme, will remain a far less potent weapon of electoral damage for the Trinamool. read more
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Mar 15, 2016 12:15Narada News released a video that showed a dozen politicians of the ruling party in West Bengal accepting bribes. Will the fallout from this hurt an otherwise juggernaut Trinamool Congress in the coming assembly elections? read more
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Jan 24, 2016 11:57Bengalis have loved nothing more than a tragic hero. But none can hold a candle to Subhas Chandra Bose--man, patriot, mystery. read more
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Sep 19, 2015 11:03One of the best-kept secrets of the country, the intelligence files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, came to light, at least partially, on Friday morning in the Kolkata Police Museum, where the government, led by chief minister Mamata Banerjee, took the... read more
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Sep 18, 2015 22:11As long as the Centre refuses to release the Netaji files, Friday’s declassification will remain a half-baked one. read more
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Apr 28, 2015 18:39The Trinamool Congress’ sweeping victory in polls to West Bengal’s civic bodies on Tuesday was attributed to chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s politics and the party’s strong arm tactics but the fact remains that its performance was more impressive than... read more
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Mar 26, 2015 10:25The CID on Thursday made the first arrest in the gang-rape of a nun in West Bengal, picking up a man named Md Selim from Mumbai. read more
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Jan 21, 2015 14:10Are there schools in every village of Bengal? Is there electricity in every village? Does an ambulance reach within 11 minutes of a phone call? “All these happen in BJP- ruled states,” said BJP president Amit Shah as he launched his Bengal Yatra read more
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Jan 19, 2015 07:30In the major political parties of West Bengal there is always one leader who knows the organisation better than its most prominent face. read more
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Nov 15, 2014 16:23The Uttarpara area under Berhampore police station in Murshidabad turned into a battle zone on Saturday morning after a clash erupted between Congress and Trinamool supporters over the occupation of a party office. read more
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Sep 25, 2014 12:08The year 1989 marked a key LS poll when the country punished a leader with a different style for corruption charges that are yet to be established in a court of law. Twenty-five years later, Bengal is debating if a similar political denouement is in... read more
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Aug 19, 2014 21:16Mamata Banerjee is on a five-day trip to Singapore to attract investments to her state. This is the West Bengal chief minister\'s first overseas trip in 15 years. read more
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Jul 22, 2014 00:36Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and her party, the Trinamool Congress, are in search of a permanent state of victory – on every front, on any count and at any cost -- it seems. read more
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Jun 25, 2014 12:03The BJP is a unique experience in Bengal’s milieu as it has very little shared political history in the state, excepting a short-lived despair over the death of Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, founder of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh. read more
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May 17, 2014 00:15From being a marginal player, BJP storms into West Bengal at the cost of Left Front that had ruled for 34 years. read more
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May 13, 2014 23:16In her political life of more than three decades, the 2014 Lok Sabha polls are the first occasion where Mamata Banerjee has something to lose. At 59, Banerjee is fighting one of the toughest battles. read more
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Jul 30, 2013 08:54As Mamata\'s Trinamool Congress sweeps the panchayat polls in West Bengal, it\'s time to take a look at what the results mean for the chief minister, the Left and the state itself. Avijit Ghosal writes. read more
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Apr 27, 2013 23:44Sudipta Sen maintained an obscure style of functioning. Even the journalists who met him never got to know him much. Here is a look at the murky and mysterious world of Saradha group founder. Rajesh Mahapatra and Avijit Ghosal report. read more
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Mar 04, 2013 01:44The Shahbag Square movement of Bangladesh -with its continuing clashes that claimed 60 lives - has evoked strong emotions on this side of the border. read more
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Jul 30, 2012 16:42A reign of terror has descended on Tagore’s abode of peace, noted historian and former vice chancellor of Visva-Bharati (VB) Rajat Kanta Ray has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, urging him to intervene before the situation worsens further. read more
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Jul 26, 2011 23:30Passing through one of its worst financial crisis, West Bengal cannot execute the time-bound mega development package for Jangalmahal announced by chief minister Mamata Banerjee during her visit to the Maoist-dominated area earlier this month. Avijit... read more
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Jun 10, 2011 20:02Barely 24 hours after giving his consent to the land ordinance allowing the state government to take back the Singur Nano factory plot from the Tatas, West Bengal governor MK Narayanan has withdrawn his approval today. read more
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Jun 02, 2011 23:22West Bengal might be reeling under debt but chief minister Mamata Banerjee is apparently mulling a power subsidy to shield domestic consumers from the rising tariffs. read more
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May 14, 2011 16:38The corridors of power at Writers’ Buildings is barely five km from Mamata Banerjee’s Kalighat residence, but it took the gutsy lady a gruelling 4,881 days since the formation of the Trinamool in January 1998 to cover that distance. Avijit Ghosal re... read more
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May 03, 2011 16:19If Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar contested polls, he would have barely managed five votes, said industry minister Nirupam Sen barely 48 hours before the poll in his constituency. “Leaders should be social reformers, and if necessary, pay the price,” he argued... read more
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May 03, 2011 16:10Singur will haunt Nirupam Sen till his last breath. Avijit Ghosal and Ravik Bhattacharya report. read more
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Apr 26, 2011 00:16The state of West Bengal\'s finances makes it unfit for foreign loans. According to Union finance ministry documents accessed by HT, of the eight states that had applied for Japanese loans, West Bengal is the only one whose proposal has been shot down... read more
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Apr 21, 2011 14:41There are more similarities between Asim Dasgupta and Amit Mitra than most electoral opponents in the 2011 Bengal polls. Avijit Ghosal reports. read more
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Apr 20, 2011 13:47Finance secretary who was sent to Delhi has come back empty-handed. Avijit Ghosal reports. read more
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Mar 01, 2011 12:55While Rizwanur\'s family welcome the verdict and pray that it eventually leads to the guilty being punished, Rehman and his wife Zahida Rehman said on Tuesday morning that they had always maintained it was not a case of suicide but murder. read more
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Aug 12, 2010 00:17Is Mamata Banerjee soft on the Maoists? The Opposition in the Lok Sabha thinks she is. read more
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Jun 04, 2010 01:34Try booking a conference at Maurya Sheraton in New Delhi, and you will be offered the choice of a green banquet. If you are inviting guests, the hotel will suggest they don’t change the bed linens every day, reports Avijit Ghosal. What the hotels do read more
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May 11, 2010 02:09Imagine a village where the gross output value of industry and agriculture is 5.71 billion yuan (Rs 3,700 crore) annually and 4,651 residents have a collective income of 10 million yuan (Rs 6.5 crore). Wuyi village in the northeastern part of Wujin district... read more
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