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Calcutta News. Calcutta News is a 24×7 satellite news channel also a free to air Bengali news channel based in Kolkata, West Bengal owned by AKD Group. [2] It aired on 14 February 2016 by Calcutta Television Network Pvt. Ltd. It serves not only the people of West Bengal but also the Bengali communities throughout the globe.
Kolkata, [a] also known as Calcutta [b] ( its official name until 2001 ), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, 80 km (50 mi) west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary financial and commercial centre of eastern and northeastern India. [16]
Kolkata, West Bengal Calcutta News: 14 February 2016 Kolkata TV: 27 March 2006 News Time: 2010 News18 Bangla: 11 March 2014 RCTV Sangbad: 20 August 2003 Siliguri, West Bengal Republic Bangla: 1 March 2021: Kolkata, West Bengal Tara News: 21 February 2005 TV9 Bangla: 14 January 2021 Zee 24 Ghanta: 2007
The Black Hole of Calcutta was a dungeon in Fort William, Calcutta, measuring 14 by 18 feet (4.3 m × 5.5 m), in which troops of Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, held British prisoners of war on the night of 20 June 1756. [1] [2] : 58 John Zephaniah Holwell, one of the British prisoners and an employee of the East India Company, said that ...
Direct Action Day (16 August 1946) was the day the All-India Muslim League decided to take "direct action" for a separate Muslim homeland after the British exit from India. Also known as the 1946 Calcutta Killings, it was a day of nationwide communal riots. [5] It led to large-scale violence between Muslims and Hindus in the city of Calcutta ...
Violence against Muslimsin independent India. The 1964 Calcutta riot was a religious riot that occurred in January 1964 and spread throughout the city of Calcutta. The violence primarily targeted Muslims and was perpetrated by members of the Hindu community. This event was the first intense religious violence in the city since the 1946 riots.
Raj Bhavan is the official residence of the Governor of West Bengal, located in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal. Built in 1803, it was known as Government House during the Company rule in India and the British Raj . After the transfer of power from the East India Company to the British Crown in 1858, it became the official residence of the ...
From 1772 to 1911, Calcutta was the capital of British India. From 1912 to India's Independence in 1947, it was the capital of all of Bengal. After Independence, Calcutta remained the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. The fall of Calcutta to Siraj ud-Daula