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By SUNIL Sonkar
Kolkata, Feb. 06 — A speeding trailer took the life of one person and five others were injured when it lost control on the second Hooghly bridge and hit five vehicles on Saturday said police.
Witnesses say that the trailer was carrying load of logs and it was heading from Kolkata towards the toll [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
Kolkata, Jan. 29 — Prabhu Shankar Agarwal, the proprietor of Haldiram Bhujiawala, on Friday was sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiring to kill the owner of tea stall. Fast track court sentenced him along with four others involved.
Judge Tapan Sen of the Bankshall Court awarded this sentence to him, the history-sheeters Gopal Tiwari, [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
Kolkata, Jan. 27 — Haldiram owner Prabhu Agarwal was convicted on Wednesday along with four others in an attempt-to-murder case by a city court.
Prabhu Agarwal owns an outlet at Burrabazar in the city and also the popular confectionary brand Haldiram. The other four convicted includes Gopal Tiwari, the hired killer, Raja Sonkar, Monoj [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 SHUBHAJIT Chakraborty
KOLKATA, India: Indian Ocean, a popular contemporary fusion music band, lost their frontman Asheem Chakravarty on Friday. He was 53 years old and suffered from cardiac arrest. Asheem in October had suffered from a heart attack and escaped from a coma. He was not fully well and suffered from cardiac problems. He had [...]
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