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Gangasagar emerges as India’s premier pilgrimage destination: Minister

Despite the ongoing Mahakumbh in Uttar Pradesh, the Gangasagar Mela on the shores of the Bay of Bengal has once again proven its status as one of India's premier pilgrimage destinations. Bankim Chandra Hazra, minister of Sundarban affairs, highlighted this while participating in a beach clean-up drive on Thursday.

15-day theatre workshop

Power and youth services minister Aroop Biswas will inaugurate a 15-day residential workshop to identify budding jatra (open theatre) artists on 7 July, the day of Rath Yatra.

3 of a family charred in Birbhum

The police are baffled as to who could pour kerosene oil from the open windows of the ground floor that charred the victims in their sleep.