Kolkata

[kol-kah-tuh]

noun

1. a seaport in and the capital of West Bengal state, in eastern India, on the Hugli River: former capital of British India.

Kolkata

/ ˈkolkɑːtə /

noun

1. Former official name: Calcutta. a port in E India, capital of West Bengal state, on the Hooghly River: former capital of the country (1833–1912); major commercial and industrial centre; many universities. Pop: 4 580 544 (2001)

Example Sentences

From a well-known Kolkata family, he drifted - alcoholic, rootless, a man described by his wife as having "this terrible business of sitting around doing nothing. Nothing. No reading, no talking, no thinking".

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In 2024, a three-day old baby in Kolkata city died a day after he underwent surgery to remove two malformed foetuses from his abdomen.

From BBC

One wonders how the productivity of the UK was affected at the beginning of the working week, or how many offices in Mumbai, Kolkata and Bengaluru closed early.

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It encouraged them to plan a similar event in Delhi - which was sold out - and they started getting queries from event organisers in other cities such as Jaipur, Kolkata and Lucknow.

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"Everyone was quite surprised that someone from Kolkata was actually interacting on social media on a regular basis and it was quite fun," he said.

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