#Kolkata

On #WorldWetlandsDay here's a story about one of the most unique #wetland system in the world - The East #Kolkata #Wetlands, a 125 sq. km vast lattice of fishponds &
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Yay!! So happy to get a call 'from Amazon' saying I've won a lottery/prize online scratch card, thanks to a recent purchase. Caller has full details of my purchase, so
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The term Bhadrolok is not a bad term. Being cultured & sophisticated has always been an important aspect of Bengali life. But it is an undeniable fact that this particular
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Satyendranath Bose or more popularly known as S.N.Bose. Well known for the Bose-Einstein condensate theory. And also a class of particles called Bosons named after him by Paul Dirac. One
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“I live in #Kolkata and here in autos, generally three people sit at the back and one passenger sits on the left of the driver. Once, I was travelling on
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"Bongo Jiboner Ongo." #ThreadBoroline was launched in Kolkata by Gourmohan Dutta in 1929. To strengthen the Indian populace economically, the Bengali merchant established GD Pharmaceuticals, a company that aimed to
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Paintings by Jiban Biswas.Jiban Biswas, based out of Birbhum West Bengal, received his Bachelor's degree in Visual Arts from the Government College of Arts and Crafts in Kolkata. His works
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1951, that's when they first met.20-yr-olds with their striped Kurta, cigarettes, new bike keys and slicked-back hair. They were the real 'Badboys of Behala'; the heartthrobs of the 50s who
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#DidYouKnow missions like ‘Over The Hump’ by American soldiers & supply of oil from Budge Budge to #China through a pipeline made #Kolkata an important city during #WWII !!!City of
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The time when Reliance went through a GameStop a like situation and and how Dhirubhai Ambani turned the tables on the Kolkata bear cartelAnd a lesson for entrepreneurs on how
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Benoy Badal Dinesh: The Story of Three Brave Boys Who Took The Battle to the British!It was the 8th of December 1930. The Writer’s Building in Kolkata, the administrative nerve
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Bombay.From my #CitiesFromTheSky series on @instagram Thrissur #CitiesFromTheSky Mithi River, Mumbai.#CitiesFromTheSky series Panjim & Mandovi River, Goa#CitiesFromTheSky series Mumbai - Borivali, Gorai, Charkop & Dahisar River.#Cit
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From a small shop in Bikaner to a $1 Billion revenue in 2019.The story of - Haldiram's.A thread 1/ The story begins from the time when young Ganga Bishan
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Thread alert: CBI's probe into WB ponzi scheme scam - How a West Bengal police sub-inspector wrote letter to then CBI special director Rakesh Asthana seeking "enlightenment" on certain points
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Morons of @BanglaPokkho protecting @GargaC from Arrest by @assampolice and making issue of Assamese Vs Bangali are nothing but ignorant bunch of fools,Even during Lockdown Assam remembered Gurudev Rabindranath #IStandWithAssamPolice
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I’m usually in India a few times a year, up to six months a year. That’s been my routine for the last 17 years. This has been the first year
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