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The Telegraph is an Indian English daily newspaper founded and continuously published in Kolkata since 7 July 1982. the upper market newspaper is published by the ABP Group and competes with the Middle-market newspaper The Times of India.
Kolkata, West Bengal, India: Country: ... [2] Sister newspapers: The Telegraph: OCLC number: 187024438 ... small village of Magura at Jessore District in British ...
ABP Group (Ananda Bazar Patrika) is an Indian media conglomerate headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal. It was established in 1922. It was established in 1922. History
During the mid-1980s, Mumbai (then called Bombay) overtook Kolkata as India's most populous city. In 1985, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi dubbed Kolkata a "dying city" in light of its socio-political woes. [68] In the period 1977–2011, West Bengal was governed from Kolkata by the Left Front, which was dominated by the Communist Party of India (CPM
At that time it was located in Burra Bazar area of old Calcutta. [1] In 1954, it shifted to its current located at 11, Lord Sinha Road, Kolkata 700071 [2] and was rechristened as Shri Shikshayatan School. [1] The school has now grown into women's college, Shri Shikshayatan College, which was founded in 1955. Shri Shikshayatan School was ...
B.B.D. Bagh is still the commercial [5] and political center of all of East India and many of the business and political institutions from the colonial era still exist. The centerpiece is the Writers' Building which is the secretariat of the Government of the State of West Bengal and houses the office of the Chief Minister of West Bengal.
The 2006 Kolkata leather factory fire was a deadly industrial fire that occurred in West Bengal, India, on 22 November 2006.The fire broke out in a leather bag factory located in the Tannix International, Topsia, in the South 24 Parganas district in Greater Kolkata area, and generated a wave of criticism of the poor safety standards in place among the country's sweatshops.
The 1993 Kolkata Writers' Building March was a protest organized by Mamata Banerjee, then a leader of the Indian National Congress, on July 21, 1993, to demand the introduction of mandatory photo voter ID cards in elections. The protest aimed to potentially destabilize the ruling Left Front government led by the Communist Party of India ...