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Padmar Ilish Returns: Bangladesh Approves Export for Durga Puja

Kolkata, September 21: The prized Padma Hilsa is set to make a comeback on Bengali plates this Durga Puja, as the interim government in Bangladesh reverses its earlier stance and approves the export of 3,000 metric tons of the fish to India. In recent years, Bangladesh’s traditional gesture of sending…

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Avigyan, Class XI Boy From Chinsurah Bagged National Intellectual Property Award

New Delhi/Chinsurah, Oct. 13: Avigyan Kishor Das, 16, a class XII student from Hooghly’s Chinsurah, became the first Bengali, to have conferred with the prestigious National Intellectual Property awards this year. Avigyan, a student of the science stream at the Hooghly Collegiate School in Chinsurah, was chosen for his commitment…



Senior Journalist Biplab Dutta Found Dead At Home

Ranaghat, Aug. 9: Senior journalist Biplab Dutta, 52, a former staff reporter with the Bengali daily Sangbad Pratidin, was found dead at his home in Ranaghat Nasrapara during the early hours of Wednesday morning. Some local civic workers first noticed him lying unconscious in the courtyard of his home, where…