Got voting rights two decades back, why sex workers at India’s largest red light area are leaving amid SIR panic

Many sex workers in Kolkata's Sonagachi are planning to return to their native place, but are apprehensive about how their ...
India Today on MSN

As SIR begins in Bengal, sex workers in Kolkata fear losing voting rights

As the Statewide Intensive Revision (SIR) process begins in Bengal, sex workers in Kolkata’s Sonagachi fear losing their ...

Anxious over SIR, sex workers in Kolkata's Sonagachi hold meeting before moving EC

Of the 8,000-odd sex workers of Sonagachi, many have no connection with their parents for decades and are not in a position ...
The Telegraph

With Nepal in flames after student-led uprising, sex workers in Kolkata’s Sonagachi struggle to contact families

The ripples of unrest raging across Nepal have travelled nearly 800 km south to Kolkata’s Sonagachi, Asia’s largest red-light district, where Nepali sex workers are unable to get in touch with their ...
The New Indian Express

Upheaval in Nepal triggers anxiety in Asia's largest red-light district Sonagachi in Kolkata

KOLKATA: The ripples of unrest raging across Nepal have travelled nearly 800 km south to Kolkata's Sonagachi, Asia's largest red-light district, where Nepalese sex workers are unable to get in touch ...

Bangladeshi man working at army camp near Siliguri caught with fake voter ID, Aadhaar, PAN

The Indian Army has apprehended a Bangladeshi national working as a civilian labourer at its Bengdubi military station near ...