One of the largest red-light areas in Kolkata’s Sonagachi, with over 12,000 sex workers, celebrates the 13th edition of their Durga Pujas. Started in 2013, the women of the area erupted in joy as MLA ...

Kolkata/New Delhi [India], Nov. 17 (ANI): The Centre's radical move to abolish large bank notes has severely affected the business of sex workers in Sonagachi- India's largest red light district, in ...

North Kolkata’s Ahiritola Jubak Brinda Durga Puja is a feisty example of how the society can treat sex workers of Sonagachi, one of the oldest red light areas in the city, with respect. Kolkata has a ...

Kolkata, July 9: The sex workers in Sonagachi, Asia’s largest red light area in Kolkata, are largely affected by the 12 per cent GST on sanitary napkins imposed under the new tax regime. The tax is ...

Amid the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls in West Bengal, sex workers in Kolkata's Sonagachi area, one of the largest red light districts in Asia, held a preliminary meeting among themselves to know ...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], March 18 (ANI): Followed by a gap of two years during which the COVID-19 pandemic marred festive celebrations, the Durbar Mahila Coordination Committee, the largest ...

The 12% GST on sanitary napkins imposed under the new tax regime has put sex workers of Sonagachi, Asia’s largest red light area located in Kolkata. The 12% GST on sanitary napkins imposed under the ...

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 ...

Kolkata: Asia's largest red light zone, Sonagachi is likely to be the first among such areas in the country to roll out an experimental project under which sex-workers will be administered medicine to ...