Former Army Chief General Shankar Roy Chowdhury said that the system forcing General Singh to go to the SC wasn't right. ...
01:38 PM, Feb 03, 2012
Kolkata: In what could be called a controversial move, the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal is planning to drop the 'Right to Strike' clause for the state government employees. The state government is considering withdrawal of the clause from the Service rule, which empowers government employees to go on a strike. This is being seen as an attempt to ensure discipline and depoliticising workers' bodies. This has drawn sharp...
09:37 AM, Feb 01, 2012
An IPL-style auction will be one of the major attractions of the football extravaganza in Kolkata. ...
09:42 AM, Jan 31, 2012
Kolkata: Eight BSF personnel were suspended on Wednesday evening after a disturning video footage showed the guards as thrashing a Bangladeshi cattle smuggler at Raninagar outpost near Indo-Bangla border in Murshidabad district. CNN-IBN doesn't vouch for the authenticity of the video - in which a couple of men, in BSF-style dark-green fatigues have tied up a man and are shown assaulting him. The BSF swung into action - suspending 8...
09:18 AM, Jan 19, 2012
Howrah: India has completed one entire year without registering a single polio case in any part of the country. Bringing down the number from 2 lakh a year to zero is a commendable achievement and an example before other countries to follow. But there is hardly any room for complacency. Two-and-a-half-year-old Ruksaar from Shahpara village in Howrah district is the last registered case of polio in India, and the credit ...
07:18 PM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: A shooting took place on board the Jammu-Howrah bound Himgiri Exprees early Saturday morning at Asansol station in West Bengal. One Railways employee has died and another was injured in the incident. The incident reportedly took place at the door of the train and came to light when the train stopped at the Asansol station. The gunman hasn't been identified. Railway Police is investigating the case and looking...
10:05 AM, Jan 14, 2012
Kolkata: In an answer to the Congress's street protests, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's party workers took to the streets in massive numbers in Kolkata on Monday. Mamata stayed away, but her top leadership was there. The rift in the Congress-TMC alliance sparked off by the Trinamool's charge that the Congress was associating with the Left. Trinamool workers took to the streets in huge numbers...
08:44 AM, Jan 10, 2012
Diamond Harbour: Barely had West Bengal come to terms with the horror of the AMRI tragedy, a second man made disaster struck the state, this time killing at least 140 people who consumed country-made liquor which was contaminated with methyl alcohol. At the Diamond Harbour Sub Divisional Hospital it was chaos, with patients spilling over into the hospital corridors and staircases, and helpless hospital staff and doctors working on a...
10:49 PM, Dec 15, 2011
Kolkata: Two more senior officials of the AMRI Hospital in south Kolkata were arrested on Tuesday and remanded in 10-day police custody over the fire tragedy that left 93 people dead. This has taken the total number of arrests to nine. Sanjeev Pal, the maintenance manager of AMRI Hospital, had issued an undertaking to the government to remove from the hospital's basement all hazardous substances by October. On the basis...
08:49 AM, Dec 14, 2011
Kolkata: It's been 4 days since the horrific fire took place at the AMRI hospital where the death toll stands at 91 but one family is still looking for their loved one. The body continues to be untraceable and his name is also not on the dead persons list. 24-year old Paritosh Das's first visit to Kolkata turned out to be his worst nightmare. A resident of Agartala, Tripura, this...
07:29 AM, Dec 13, 2011
The six directors of AMRI hospital in south Kolkata on Saturday were produced in a local court in connection with the major fire accident. ...
02:39 PM, Dec 10, 2011
Kolkata: It was at 3:30 am on Friday morning that the devastating fire that would claim more than 70 lives began in the basement of the AMRI Hospital. Relatives of the victims though say the hospital knew that the fire had begun as early as 1 am. But it was only at 4:45 am that the first fire tender reached the spot. Nearly 30 fire tenders were pressed in to...
08:28 PM, Dec 09, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been waving red flags on the Congress' policy decisions forcing the latter to back out. And the maverick chief minister's compulsions for doing so are political as well as economical. Mamata said, "We are opposed to pension reform bill and FDI in retail as it affects the common man." The bonhomie between the two biggest coalition partners, the Congress and the Trinamool...
08:28 AM, Dec 08, 2011
New Delhi: After the death of Maoist leader Kishenji, fears are that the group will retaliate strongly in West Bengal. But the big question remains - under whose leadership could that be? He came to boost the morale of his cadres, but ended up being killed. Maoist leader Kishenji reportedly sneaked into Bengal's Jungalmahal through the Jharkhand border and was tracked down last Tuesday. He was killed two days later,...
09:08 AM, Nov 30, 2011
West Midnapore: After the death of Kishenji, another major success by security forces was the surrender of key Maoist leaders Jagori Baskey and Rajaram Soren. CNN-IBN travelled to Jagori's home to find out how her parents felt about the surrender. Far from media glare in a remote village called Bagdoba at the Purulia-West Midnapore border, an old couple works on a small patch of land. They would have gone unnoticed...
08:29 AM, Nov 27, 2011
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