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Kunal questions use of party funds for chartered flights

Senior Trinamul Congress leader and Beleghata MLA Kunal Ghosh on Friday publicly questioned the use of party funds for chartered flights, triggering fresh political discussion over the travel arrangements of the party’s national general secretary, Abhishek Banerjee.

Where bargaining is a fine art

In the shaded belly of Kolkata’s historic New Market, sunlight filters through coloured glass and falls upon a chaos that feels almost choreographed: rows of kurtas, denim knockoffs, jute bags, oxidised jewellery, and humble but loud culinary shrines.

Suvendu hails Centre’s proposal to reconstruct Ray’s ancestral house

The Leader of Opposition in the Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Wednesday, described the Union government’s proposal to collaborate with the Bangladesh government for the reconstruction of the ancestral property of the legendary Indian film-maker and writer, Satyajit Ray at Mymensingh City there, as an exemplary gesture.