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Calcutta News is a 24×7 satellite news channel also a free to air Bengali news channel based in Kolkata, West Bengal owned by AKD Group. [2] It aired on 14 February 2016 by Calcutta Television Network Pvt. Ltd. It serves not only the people of West Bengal but also the Bengali communities throughout the globe.
The West Bengal government introduced a new bill in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly on 3 September 2024 named the Aparajita Woman and Child Bill (West Bengal Criminal Laws and Amendment), 2024. West Bengal became the first state in India to make an amendment in central laws for crimes of a sexual nature against women and children.
Kolkata, West Bengal Calcutta News: 14 February 2016 Kolkata TV: 27 March 2006 News Time: 2010 News18 Bangla: 11 March 2014 RCTV Sangbad: 20 August 2003 Siliguri, West Bengal Republic Bangla: 1 March 2021: Kolkata, West Bengal Tara News: 21 February 2005 TV9 Bangla: 14 January 2021 RPlus: High News: Zee 24 Ghanta: 2007
The Black Hole of Calcutta was a dungeon in Fort William, Calcutta, measuring 14 by 18 feet (4.3 m × 5.5 m), in which troops of Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, held British prisoners of war on the night of 20 June 1756.
Also known as the 1946 Calcutta Riots, it soon became a day of communal violence in Calcutta. [5] It led to large-scale violence between Muslims and Hindus in the city of Calcutta (now known as Kolkata) in the Bengal province of British India. [3] The day also marked the start of what is known as The Week of the Long Knives.
Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Programming; Language(s) Bengali: Picture format: 16:9, HDTV: ... Kolkata TV is a 24-hour Bengali news channel launched by SST Media in ...
As they moved towards Calcutta, approximately 30 miles from the frontier, they narrated stories of torture they suffered in Khulna and Jessore, which incited retaliation against Muslims in rural areas of West Bengal. By the evening of January 9, 1964, the impoverished slums on the eastern outskirts of Calcutta began to stir. [9]
From 1772 to 1911, Calcutta was the capital of British India. From 1912 to India's Independence in 1947, it was the capital of all of Bengal. After Independence, Calcutta remained the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.