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West Bengal: Few documents or family links, Sonagachi sex workers tackle SIR fears
December 10, 2025 7:13 am
Enrolled for first time in 2007 after a protest, based on passbooks from a co-op bank. That may not be enough.
Happening in Bengal today: Bengal CEO camp at Sonagachi
December 09, 2025 10:31 am
Lets take a look what all is happening today in Bengal.
Got voting rights two decades back, why sex workers at India’s largest red light area are leaving amid SIR panic
November 09, 2025 9:34 am
Many sex workers in Kolkata's Sonagachi are planning to return to their native place, but are apprehensive about how their families will treat them.
Bengal: FIR against Sukanta over 'derogatory' remark on Kolkata police
June 23, 2025 2:40 am
During an argument, he purportedly said, “You (police) have turned the law into a sex worker in Sonagachi"
Durga puja street graffiti narrates sex workers' tale
October 08, 2018 6:20 pm
The graffiti, painted on a 300 feet long stretch of road in Ahiritola area, tells the tale of hardships and the circumstances that force a woman to get into the flesh trade.
GST hits nation’s largest red-light area, Sonagachi
July 04, 2017 8:14 am
A cooperative bank run by sex workers, Usha Multipurpose Co-operative Society Ltd — the largest of its kind in India — provides sanitary napkins and condoms to thousands of sex workers at a subsidy. The bank has 30,222 members from Sonagachi and other red-light areas of Bengal.
Kolkata : Sex worker found dead, throat slit
June 02, 2017 1:16 am
The Police has lodged a murder case while the fruit seller who used to live with the diseased sex worker is missing.
HIV-preventive medicine available from December in Kolkata's Sonagachi
November 10, 2015 10:53 am
The feasibility project recently received clearance from the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) and Union Health Ministry and is likely to commence in December.
Durga Puja by sex workers: Calcutta High Court to hear plea why permission was denied by police
September 24, 2013 2:03 am
The petition has been filed by Durbar Mahila Samanway Samiti,an NGO working in the red light area.
Sex workers bristle at MP comment
April 27, 2011 2:39 am
By invoking prostitution,CPM MP Anil Basu has offended not just the Trinamool Congress but sex workers too.
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