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By AJITHA Menon
Kolkata, Jan. 22 — Lt Gen V K Singh, presently GOC-in-C, Eastern has been appointed the next Chief of the Army Staff, in the rank of General with effect from the afternoon of March 31, 2010.
Lt General V K Singh was commissioned into the Rajput Regiment on June 14, 1970. During his [...]
By Ajitha Menon
Kolkata, Jan. 17 — Eyes of the late veteran communist leader Jyoti Basu has been donated in keeping with his wishes. Basu had also donated his body in his lifetime and it will be handed over on Tuesday.
Basu’s body will be taken to Peace Haven today and kept there till the Party [...]
By Ajitha Menon : Kolkata : The oxygen requirement of the ailing former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu has increased. He developed breathing problems in the night and the ventilator settings had to be adjusted to provide more oxygen.
His cardiac and renal functions have deteriorated, according to the medical bulletin issued by the AMRI [...]
By Ajitha Menon : Kolkata : Seven pilgrims were killed and over nine injured in a stamped at Jetty no. 3 of Lot 8 in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal in the early hours today. The incident occurred while thousands of pilgrims were availing launch services to go to the Gangasagar Islands to [...]
By AJITHA Menon
Kolkata, Jan. 12 — A major fire has broken out in the sprawling Basanti Colony slum area in Ultadanga, Kolkata. The entire colony, adjacent to the railway line, is in the grasp of the raging fire.
15 fire engines have been rushed to the spot but the fire fighters are finding it difficult [...]
By AJITHA Menon
Kolkata, Jan. 12 — Former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu is India’s most well known Communist leader and an atheist. But as he lies ailing in his hospital bed, people of different faiths are praying for his quick recovery outside AMRI Hospitals.
Kolkata’s Pakhtoon community gathered on the pavement outside the hospital [...]
By AJITHA Menon
Kolkata, Jan. 11 — Superstar Shahrukh Khan arrived in Kolkata today to take stock of his IPL team Kolkata Knight Riders. He attended the ongoing coaching camp of the Knight Riders at the CCFC grounds and spoke with former Pakistan pacer Wasim Akram, who is conducting the camp.
Shahrukh Khan, who watched the [...]
By AJITHA Menon
Kolkata, Jan. 10 – There has been marginal improvement in the health of the ailing former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu. His central nervous system is showing slight response but his condition is still critical, according to the medical bulletin issued by the AMRI Hospitals in Kolkata today.
Basu continues to be on [...]
By AJITHA Menon
Kolkata, Jan. 9 — Former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu’s condition has deteriorated. According to a medical bulletin issued by AMRI Hospitals, Kolkata, today, he is retaining fluid and his urine output has gone down. He is feeling drowsy.
According to doctors, these symptoms indicate that multiple organs are now affected. Mr [...]
By AJITHA Menon
Kolkata, Jan. 8 — Specialists of the AIIMS, New Delhi, will be consulted today by the doctors at AMRI, Kolkata, regarding further treatment of the ailing former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu.
The consultation will take place via video conferencing. The specialists at the AIIMS would be asked for their opinion, if [...]
By AJITHA Menon
Kolkata, Jan. 7 — Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh visited veteran communist leader Jyoti Basu in hospital in Kolkata today. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya accompanied Dr Singh to the hospital.
According to Dr Susruth Bandopadhyay of AMRI, the Prime Minister assured the hospital staff that if [...]
By AJITHA Menon
Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee’s decision to give jobs in lieu of land acquired for Railway projects has been welcomed by the West Bengal government. Industries Minister Nirupam Sen said in Kolkata today that the whole industrialization process was geared towards combating unemployment and if the Railway Minister could promise jobs at the very [...]
By Ajitha Menon : Kolkata : Veteran Communist leader Jyoti Basu has taken a turn for the worst. The former Bengal Chief Minister was put on ventilator support today morning after he developed severe breathing problems. Mr Basu was undergoing treatment at AMRI Kolkata for moderately severe pneumonia.
Mr D N Agarwal, Director, AMRI, Kolkata said [...]
By Ajitha Menon : The joint paramilitary operations against the Maoists in West Bengal has been a total failure according to Trinamul Congress leader Mamata Banerjee. She said the state government was misleading the centre on the Maoist problem in Bengal.
Ms Banerjee said the ruling CPI(M) had merely used the opportunity to wipe out its [...]
By Ajitha Menon : Kolkata : The All India Forward Bloc today invited the Maoists to join the mainstream and participate in the anti-imperialist Left movement in the country. They have to forsake arms and come for talks, said Debabrata Biswas, General Secretary, Forward Bloc, addressing a press conference after the conclusion of the five-day [...]
By Ajitha Menon : With no political consensus on the formation of a separate Gorkhaland state, the Gorkha Jana Mukti Morcha has asked for talks at the political level within the next 45 days, Mr G K Pillai, Union Home Secretary, said after the Tripartite talks between the Centre, State and the Gorkha Jana Mukti [...]
By AJITHA Menon : The demand for a separate Telengana state was raked up again suddenly as part of a conspiracy to divert attention from the rising prices of essential commodities in the country, according to Debabrata Biswas, General Secretary, Forward Bloc.
When the Left was supporting the UPA government at the centre and Chandrasekhar Rao [...]
By AJITHA Menon
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) might be brought into regular use for surveillance of the Maoist infested areas across the country soon, according to Air Marshal S K Bhan, Air Officer Commanding in Chief, Eastern Air Command. Air Marshal Bhan pointed out that a successful experiment of air surveillance of Maoist areas using [...]
By Ajitha Menon : Azim Premji has once again honoured his friendship with West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya. Wipro’s commitment to widen its base in Bengal by taking up the state government’s offer of 50 acres in the satellite township of Rajarhat, off Kolkata, at Rs 1.5 crore per acre, has brought relief to [...]
By AJITAH Menon
A change in the company conducting the CAT test or even a return to the paper-pencil test format was all possible in future, depending on an enquiry which would soon be conducted jointly by all IIMs on the recent CAT exam debacle, Mr Shekhar Choudhuri, Director, IIM, Joka, said today.
Mr Choudhuri indicated that [...]
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