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In May this year in the Hooghly district, three boys playing near a pond unknowingly stumbled upon a cache of bombs.

The industry flourished along the Hooghly River in West Bengal, where the first jute factory had been established by a British businessman in 1855.

A tornado snapped electricity lines that electrocuted two people and damaged 40 houses in West Bengal’s Hooghly district on Tuesday, the top state elected official Mamata Banerjee said.

Late in the afternoon the day after I met with Nath, I drove to Garden Reach, a predominantly Muslim and largely poor section in southwest Kolkata on the banks of the Hooghly River.

Reaching the slum had required taking four different forms of transport over the Hooghly River, including a kind of open-air vehicle like the ones you ride on in airports.