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Doctor’s Protests, Floods May Dampen Bengal’s Durga Puja Festivities

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The flood crisis in West Bengal has sparked a face-off between Mamata Banerjee and her INDIA bloc ally. The firestorm over a Kolkata doctor’s gruesome rape and murder and the flood crisis threaten to severely impact Bengal’s Rs 50,000 crore Durga Puja economy. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, her government and her Trinamool Congress party have…

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Bengal Floods Man-Made Disaster, Says Mamata Banerjee, Blames DVC

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Kolkata: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee rushed to flood-hit areas in Hooghly and other parts of South Bengal today, which have been massively affected by the release of water from dams upstream in Jharkhand. Accusing the Damodar Valley Corporation of being responsible for the situation, she said, “The Central government’s DVC and Jharkhand’s Tenughat and Panchet,…

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