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PDS protests in West Bengal
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2007
bithari village, Swarupnagar block, North 24-Paraganas: the men of Uttarpara hamlet in Bithari are hiding out in the fields every night despite the winter chill in the air. Better brave the cold than the police lock-up, they say. This remote village near the Bangladesh border is one of the many in West Bengal where people have protested violently against corruption in the public distribution system (pds)in the past one-and-a-half months.
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West Bengal village sits on archaeological treasure
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2006
LOHAPUR'S engagement with history is renewed, almost on an everyday basis. Whenever a patch of land is dug across a 16-sq km stretch in this tiny village in Birbhum district of West Bengal, villagers discover stone artefacts, most of which are idols. But the archaeological finds are either being neglected or manhandled.
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