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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.
Kolkata sex workers slam Durga Puja 'tradition'
October 14, 2010 12:42 pm
We don't care if this ritual is obliterated,an incensed prostitute said.
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