Kolkata News

Kolkata News

By admin • August 18th, 2009

KOLKATA: Bengal’s healthcare system is starting to buckle under the flu panic. The lone H1N1 testing centre in the state is so over-burdened that
swab test reports are taking three days to arrive. The helpline doesn’t work.
And the government, for some reason, is not pressuring private hospitals to set up isolation wards though the number of [...]

KOLKATA: A man serving a life term got the better of two constables and escaped into a crowd outside R Ahmed Dental College on APC Road in broad
daylight. The constables have been suspended and a manhunt has been launched for the convict.
Mohammad Rafique alias Chachu, a dacoit serving a life term since 1996, was lodged [...]

Can an exhibition of photographs serve as a time machine? Yes it can, the Society of Contemporary Artists has just shown. Sepia-tinted
photographs of Shyamal Dutta Ray, Bikash Bhattacharya, Somenath Hore, Suhas Roy, Ganesh Haloi, Arun Bose with Lady Ranu Mukherjee and Paritosh Sen here, Tyeb Mehta and Kekoo Gandhi there, or with Sankho Chowdhury, Satish [...]

KOLKATA: Burdened with heavy books and a heavier work schedule, students of a number of city schools feel that authorities should lighten
workload and create time in the curriculum to teach skills that’ll come in handy once students pass out and are ready for adult life.
Tanisha Singh, Class IX student
of Carmel High School, says, “Most Indian [...]

KOLKATA: The Khetwas of Camac Street returned home on Sunday night to find their house burgled and the domestic help missing. Investigation
revealed that Ram Prasad Gupta, the domestic help, was a conman who had committed thefts at several houses in the past.
The accused, who is in his late 20s and hails from Mandirbazar, fled with [...]

DARJEELING: The Centre may have agreed to scrap the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council (DGHC), but that is not enough for Gorkha Janmukti Morcha
(GJM), which is driving a hard bargain over Hills territory.
This became clear on Monday as GJM demanded that Siliguri Mahakuma Parishad be disbanded and three-tier panchayat elections be held across the Darjeeling Hills, [...]

A 20-year-old college student, Surajit Banerjee, was mowed down by a private bus in Domjur on Monday afternoon. He died on the spot. An angry mob
vandalised the bus and tried to set it on fire before police brought the situation under control. Banerjee, a student of Azad Hind Fauj College, was riding a cycle on [...]

DARJEELING: National Highway 55 is unlikely to be reopened to the public for at least two weeks because of the damage caused by landslides on
Sunday. Officials said the huge boulders blocking the road would have to be cleared before the highway could be used again.
On Sunday, landslides triggered by incessant rain caused extensive damage to [...]

DARJEELING: Days after its members “detained” some foreign tourists and seized liquor from them, Gorkhaland Personnel (GLP) struck again on
Monday morning, this time detaining a member of the State Armed Police near the Bengal-Sikkim border for allegedly carrying marijuana. GLP, which is made up of GJM’s ground-level cadres, later handed over the policeman to Darjeeling [...]

How engrossed do you actually get while speaking on your mobile phone? You may not even hear a train hurtling towards you. Don’t believe us?
Well, that’s exactly how Tollywood makeup artist Prabir De died in 2005. De was at a film shoot near railway tracks when he took a call on his mobile. Deep in [...]

Kolkata, May 24 (IANS) Three contract labourers were killed in an accident at a process vehicle in the Haldia Petrochemicals Limited plant in West Bengal Sunday, an official said.
“Three people died in the accident. But I have no more details. I understand the company is conducting an investigation,” East Midnapore district Magistrate D. Choten Lama [...]

Kolkata, May 22 (IANS) Seventy-one-year-old Gayetri Banerjee was a proud mother as she watched on television her daughter, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, take oath as a cabinet minister Friday.
“I am extremely happy today. Mamata has been sworn-in as one of the cabinet ministers in the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government. I wish she meets [...]

KALYANI: They waited in vain for 28 years, election after election, but the chance to vote never came. Now, the villagers of Charjatrasiddhi under Chakdah block in Nadia will finally get to exercise their voting rights after nearly three decades of administrative confusion over whether the village was part of Nadia or Hooghly.
To mark the [...]

KOLKATA: The rain might have brought much-needed relief to the parched South Bengal, but it has left the parties worried on the eve of the third phase of polls. Inclement weather might discourage voters from making the trip to the booth. In many areas of South and North 24-Parganas, a journey to the booth could [...]

KOLKATA: For the Trinamool Congress election managers, the cause of hope is the promise of the Election Commission to deploy central paramilitary forces at all polling stations in the third and final phase of polling in the state on Wednesday.
Trinamool is pinning its hopes largely on the outcome of the third phase, in which 11 [...]

BARASAT (WB): One person was killed early on Wednesday morning in a clash between Trinamool Congress activists and CPI-M cadre at Baliguri on the outskirts of Kolkata, hours before the last phase of polling.
21-year-old Saminul Haque died on the way to a local hospital after being hit by a crude bomb during a clash.
However, polling [...]

Amjhara, a small village near Basanti in South 24-Parganas, witnessed five deaths in a poll-day clash during last year’s panchayat election. Political goons with guns were seen running in front of polling booths. The incident shocked the whole state. But it wasn’t a stray occurrence. The show of muscle power is a common trend in [...]

It’s 9.30 am and the mad sprint has just begun at Baruipur station. Toes are being stepped on and elbows used liberally. Inside the compartment of a Sealdah-bound train that has just pulled into platform one, it’s quite stuffy. But the air really hots up when people start talking elections. “They’re voting with a vengeance [...]

KOLKATA: CPM has charted elaborate plans to rig elections in Kolkata and its outskirts on May 13, Trinamool chairperson Mamata Banerjee said on Monday. The party has hired marriage houses to shelter goons and is planning to lock the gates of highrises to prevent genuine voters from coming out, she alleged.
Accusing chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee [...]

DARJEELING: First the raucous slogans, then the melodic ditty both part of GJM’s poll propaganda for Jaswant Singh.
On Wednesday, GJM added another facet to its campaign for the BJP candidate in the Hills by releasing a cassette in praise of Singh and GJM. Sung by Mahesh Sewa, a resident of Tindharia in Kurseong, the song [...]