Sex workers in country’s largest red-light area got voting rights in 2007, now they are leaving in droves due to SIR

Many sex workers in Kolkata's Sonagachi are planning to return to their native place, but are apprehensive about how their ...

Anxious over SIR, sex workers in Kolkata's Sonagachi fear exclusion in voter roll update

I have had no ties to my birthplace for decades. I, like many of us here, have no official document to show under the SIR ...

Anxious over SIR, sex workers in Kolkata's Sonagachi hold meeting before moving EC

Of the 8,000-odd sex workers of Sonagachi, many have no connection with their parents for decades and are not in a position ...

Mamata-Abhishek padayatra in Kolkata today: Check march route, time, and traffic diversions here

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee is scheduled to hold a march in ...
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Two bikers brandish gun in red-light area

Kolkata: A motorist, while exiting the red-light area on Premchand Boral Street on Saturday night, caused an accident, leading locals to chase the vehicle away. But shortly, two youths arrived on two ...
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As SIR begins in Bengal, sex workers in Kolkata fear losing voting rights

As the Statewide Intensive Revision (SIR) process begins in Bengal, sex workers in Kolkata's Sonagachi fear losing their ...

Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee, Abhishek To Conduct Mega Rally On Nov 4

Kolkata: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee along with Trinamool Congress (TMC) national secretary Abhishek Banerjee will hit the ...