SSB trooper kills self in Bengal
Kolkata, May 9 (IANS) A Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) trooper fatally shot himself in West Bengal's Cooch Behar district on Monday, a district official said.
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West Bengal: Epicentre Of India's boom in sexual slavery
Kolkata: Over nine years since 2005-06, India's gross domestic product (GDP) rose 76 percent, hiding darker changes that evolved in concert with this economic transformation.
One of those is a 20 percent rise in human trafficking related to "purposes of prostitution", with West Bengal accounting for a fifth of such cases and being the epicentre of India's human-trafficking industry.
Forty-two percent of minor girls captured by traffickers nationwide are from West Bengal