Kolkata, July 13 (IANS) In an attempt to involve the girl children in the red-light areas of the state in the recently initiated cervical cancer vaccination drive in West Bengal, the state health department has decided to provide this vaccination to the girl children in the red-light areas absolutely free of cost.The initiative on this count will begin with the vaccination drive at Asia’s oldest and biggest red-light area, Sonagachi in North Kolkata. The project will be run by the state governme…
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Kolkata, Feb 2 (IANS) Three sex workers from Sonagachi area in north Kolkata have been arrested for abducting a man from the road and extorting a large sum of money from him, the police said on Monday. They were arrested on Sunday night for extorting Rs 89,000 from the man after forcefully taking him inside a room in India’s biggest red light area.According to the police, they have started interrogating the three arrested women to find out how this happened and whether there have been similar fr…