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  2. Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute - Wikipedia

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    Opened. January 2, 1950. (1950-01-02) Links. Website. www.cnci.ac.in. Lists. Hospitals in India. Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI) is a cancer care hospital and research institute and one of the 27 regional cancer centres in India. [2][3][4] It is located in Kolkata near Jatin Das Park metro station at Hazra More (crossing).

  3. Public image of Mother Teresa - Wikipedia

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    Public image of Mother Teresa. in 1985. Catholic nun and missionary Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, commonly known as Mother Teresa and known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta since 2016, has a complicated public image. She has been widely admired by many for her charitable work, which led to her being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for work undertaken in ...

  4. Kolkata - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Kalighat Home for the Dying - Wikipedia

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    Kalighat, the Home of the Pure Heart (Nirmal Hriday) [1] (formerly Mother Teresa's Kalighat Home for the Dying Destitutes) is a hospice for the sick, destitute and the dying established by St. Mother Teresa [2][3] in Kalighat, Kolkata, India. Before Mother Teresa sought permission to use it, the building was an old abandoned Hindu temple to the ...

  6. Black Hole of Calcutta - Wikipedia

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    The Black Hole Memorial, St. John's Church, Calcutta, India. In memoriam of the dead, the British erected a 15-metre (50') high obelisk; it now is in the graveyard of (Anglican) St. John's Church, Calcutta. Holwell had erected a tablet on the site of the 'Black Hole' to commemorate the victims but, at some point (the precise date is uncertain ...

  7. 2024 Kolkata rape and murder incident - Wikipedia

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    3 [1][2][3] 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. The incident has amplified debate about the safety of women and doctors in India, and has ...

  8. Kalighat - Wikipedia

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    Kalighat is a locality of Kolkata (Calcutta), in Kolkata district, West Bengal, India. One of the oldest neighbourhoods in South Kolkata, Kalighat is also densely populated — with a history of cultural intermingling with the various foreign incursions into the area over time. Kalighat Kali Temple, c. 1887.

  9. Salt Lake Stadium - Wikipedia

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    Salt Lake Stadium. The Salt Lake Stadium, officially known as Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan (VYBK; transl.Vivekananda Indian Youth Stadium), [ 7 ][ 8 ] is an all-seater multi-purpose stadium located in Salt Lake City, Kolkata, with a capacity of 85,000 spectators. [ 5 ] Named after Swami Vivekananda, the stadium is the home ground for ...