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Man killed for refusing daughter’s hand in marriage

An elderly businessman died after being attacked by a young man. The attacker demanded to marry the elderly man's daughter. The murder sparked tension in the area, leading to the accused's house being vandalised and demolished by angry locals.

TMC announces list, six sitting MPs dropped:

Harbour, Professor Saugata Roy will contest from Dum Dum, Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar will contest from Barasat, Mala Roy and Sudip Bandyopadhyay will contest from Kolkata South and Kolkata North.

Rest in peace ~ A necropolis exploration

“Men were rich in those days and could afford to put a hundred cubic feet of masonry into the grave of even so humble a person as ’Jno Clements, Captain of the Country Service, 1820” — Rudyard Kipling, 1891.