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Kolkata

Tiny Tome of Terrific Travel Tales

Attention all hagglers of Gariahat. Yes, those of you who pride themselves on negotiating prices down till the vendor has slashed them by more than half.

I Love Vienna

Falling asleep in an express train while returning to Kolkata after a trip outside of West Bengal, listening to that “jhak jhak'' sound of the wheels on track was like my mother swaying me to sleep in her arms after playing all day.

88 kmph winds wreck havoc in city, 7 dead in state

A powerful spell of thunderstorms accompanied by heavy rain and gusty winds lashed Kolkata and several districts of south Bengal on Friday afternoon, disrupting normal life, affecting flight, metro and train services, uprooting trees and causing at least one death in the city.