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By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, Feb. 24 — Social responsibility, says Mamata Banerjee, to be top consideration of railways. She adds that railway connectivity is the key to the growth of the country and delayed administration and also delayed prosecution should be addressed. Ms. Banerjee also came up with 10-year plan ‘Vision 2020′.
Mamata Banerjee says it [...]
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 [...]
Jan 17th (Obituary)
By Saadia Azim
Kolkata, Jan. 17 – Ninety six year old Marxist leader Jyoti Basu struggled for life for sixteen days before breathing his last at 11.41 a.m on Sunday at the AMRI hospital at Kolkata. His struggle for life was evident from the tough fight he gave before the last. He was deeply loved [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
Kolkata, Jan. 17 — JYOTI BASU PASSED AWAY AT 11.47 AM SUNDAY.
CPM patriarch Jyoti Basu left the earthly world on Sunday at 11:47 am. Biman Basu, Chairman of the Left Front coordination committee, confirmed the news to the reporters at AMRI Hospitals, “I have to give you the sad news that Jyoti Basu [...]
Jan 16th.
By Saadia Azim
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has advised the West Bengal Pradesh Congress leaders to launch a mass movement against ongoing political violence in the state. A delegation of WBPCC leaders had gone to meet the Prime Minister at Raj Bhavan in the afternoon with requests to explore the possibility of invoking article 355 [...]
16th Jan’2010 .
By Saadia Azim
ool Chief Mamata Banerjee has issued an ultimatum of seven days to the Maoists of Lalgarh to give up arms or else face people’s movement. Addressing a rally at the Jhargram municipal ground, she threatened the Maoists to either leave the path of violence or else face her ‘people’s movement’ against [...]
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 [...]
Saadia Azim
Kolkata , Jan 12th.
Six suspected Maoists allegedly close aides of elusive Maoist leader ‘Kishenji’ have been held by the Central forces in the ‘metalla’ jungle near Salboni in West Midnapur district. Rajiv and Ranjit Mahato along with five others were caught by the ‘Cobra unit’ of the Joint forces, on Monday night, while on [...]
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. 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 : 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 : 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 [...]
The first meeting to assess the bypoll debacle turned out to be the opportunity for the CPIM, to call for unity within the Left. Besides confronting the bitter criticism from the main opposition Trinamool Congress the CPIM have been through tough times facing condemnation from within the Left partners. The lone minister of the socialist [...]
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