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Adhir writes to railway minister for special trains during Eid

Senior Congress leader and erstwhile Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, has urged today railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to introduce special trains on the Malda, Murshidabad, and Dinajpur (North and South) routes ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr to accommodate the surge in passenger traffic during the festive season.

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.