Ostracised by the society, sex workers have survived for long in the underbellies. While the soil from a sex worker's backyard is considered essential for the making of Durga idols, they have been excluded from festivities for ages.

Business Standard takes you to Ahiritola Yubak Brinda, a Durga Puja pandal, near Kolkata's red-light district of Sonagachhi, that is setting new paradigms by paying tribute to sex workers.

A Durga Puja pandal that pays tribute to sex workers

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The Railway Board has asked the Centre for Railway Information Systems to provide alert to crew controllers in case of violation of its instructions regarding continuous night duty for running staff such as loco pilots.
As per the board's guidelines, Continuous night duty for running staff should be limited to four nights with the fourth night towards the headquarters.
However, it has been observed that railways are violating these instructions by continuing to book running staff after 4 consecutive nights due to absence of alert in CMS (Crew Management System), the Board said in its letter dated December 26, 2024 addressed to the managing director of the Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS).
In CMS reports for the month of October, November and December (till date), total 1360, 1224 and 696 cases of loco pilots with five and more than five continuous night duty were recorded respectively, the board's letter added.
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Similarly, the board further suggested that if the running staff has completed four consecutive nights, an alert at the headquarters should be generated upon booking the staff

The last rites of former prime minister Manmohan Singh will be conducted at 11:45 am Saturday at the Nigambodh Ghat crematorium here with State honours, the Union Home Ministry said.
Singh died Thursday night at the AIIMS here at the age of 92.
"It has been decided by the Government that State funeral will be accorded to Dr. Manmohan Singh. The funeral will take place at 11:45 AM on 28h December, 2024 at Nigambodh Ghat, New Delhi," the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said in a communication on Friday.
It said the Ministry of Defence has been requested to make arrangements for according Singh State funeral with full military honours.

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