Anurag Kashyap's two-part coal mafia drama 'Gangs of Wasseypur' will have its world premiere at the Directors Fortnight section. ...
10:53 AM, May 22, 2012
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday granted anticipatory bail to Preeti Surekha, a director of AMRI Hospital, where more than 90 patients died of suffocation in a fire mishap last year. A division bench headed by Justice Ashim Roy granted the bail prayer of Surekha, who was one of the three directors who could not be arrested after the fire at AMRI Hospital. All the directors of the hospital...
06:59 PM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: Two directors Ravi Todi and Manish Goenka of the fire-ravaged AMRI Hospital were on Monday granted bail by the court. More than 90 persons, most of them patients, died after inhaling smoke in the dead of the night from a fire that allegedly started from cotton and other materials stored illegally in the basement of the multi-speciality hospital. The Kolkata Police had last month submitted charge sheet against...
02:53 PM, Apr 02, 2012
Kolkata: After spending 111 days in custody, two directors of the fire-ravaged AMRI Hospital were on Wednesday granted bail by the Calcutta High Court, which observed that day-to-day affairs of the hospital were not run by them. A division bench comprising justices Ashim Kumar Roy and Asim Kumar Ray granted the bail prayers of RS Goenka and Prashant Goenka, directors of AMRI where a fire in December last year claimed...
06:31 PM, Mar 28, 2012
New Delhi: Absconding directors of multi-level marketing company Gold Sukh Trade India Ltd, which allegedly duped its investors over Rs 300 crore in Rajasthan, have been extradited to the country from Vietnam, a CBI spokesperson said in New Delhi on Tuesday. Rajasthan Police had requested the CBI to issue Red Corner Notices against directors Mahendra Nirwan, Neetu Nirwan, Manvendra Pratap Singh Chauhan, Pramod alias Bablu Sharma and Asha Sharma based...
05:58 PM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: Aishwarya Rai, currently on a sabbatical after being in the industry for over a decade, says she was happy to have worked with different directors. "I am glad to have worked with different directors on different roles. I had always been greedy to work with different directors on different characters," Aishwarya said on the television show India's Glam Diva. "I enjoy music and dance, a fact that you...
05:30 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Kolkata: A court in Kolkata granted bail on Thursday to Dr Pranab Dasgupta, a director of AMRI Hospital where 90 persons choked to death from a fire in the basement in December. District sessions judge, Alipore, Anindya Bhattacharya, granted bail to Dasgupta on the plea that he would not abscond. The counsel for Dasgupta, a well-known gynaecologist, submitted before the court that he was not in India on the date...
07:46 PM, Feb 23, 2012
London: Around 35 per cent of directors of British business firms think there is a high risk of a recession this year, says a survey. A poll by the Institute of Directors (IoD) said that of the 1,000 directors polled, about 53 per cent said they envisioned a moderate risk of recession, while only 11 per cent saw a low or very low risk of recession this year. According to...
12:06 PM, Feb 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Calcutta High Court is expected to give its verdict on the bail plea of 5 directors of the AMRI hospital on Friday. A total of 9 directors and four employees were arrested in connection with the fire that claimed over 90 lives. Up until now, only one of them - Dr Moni Chetri, in whose name the hospital's licence was given - has been granted bail, on...
09:19 AM, Feb 17, 2012
New Delhi: The judicial custody of the 6 directors of Kolkata's AMRI hospital will end on Thursday. The directors were arrested after a massive fire in the hospital's basement led to the death of 93 people, mostly patients. The Kolkata police on Tuesday announced compensation for families of the 29 of those dead. The rest would be given compensation after due verification of documents, it said. Meanwhile, industry body FICCI...
08:10 AM, Jan 05, 2012
New Delhi: Families of victims who lost their lives in the tragic AMRI hospital fire incident in Kolkata have decided to form an association. 22 families have come together to form the Human Health Rights Forum and they will move to High Court to demand justice for the victims. The West Bengal government on Tuesday released its first batch of compensation, with 29 families being distributed cheques. The association is...
06:23 AM, Jan 04, 2012
Kolkata: A day after industry lobby FICCI urged the West Bengal government to release the seven AMRI Hospital directors who were arrested after a fire killed 93 people at the premises, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said the law would take its own course in the case. "A business house had requested me not to take any action against them (AMRI directors). But it is not correct. We want...
03:29 AM, Jan 04, 2012
Kolkata: Three weeks after the directors of Kolkata's AMRI hospital were taken into custody after a fire in the hospital's basement claimed 90 lives, industry body FICCI has slammed the arrests as 'anti-industry', and not 'completely non-discriminatory'. "Those not responsible for day-to-day operations of any business should be released immediately. This is only fair and will also prevent the spread of any negative sentiments within the domestic investor community," FICCI...
07:37 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Kolkata: Speaking to news reporters on Tuesday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee lashed out at FICCI saying the state did not want an industry that killed people. "A chamber has said that the directors of AMRI should be released. I want to tell them that we want industry here, but we do not want industry that will kill people. "A murderer's identity is that of a murderer, a terrorist...
03:08 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Kolkata: Paromita Guha Thakurta, the daughter of one of those who died in the AMRI fire tragedy has asked for strict punishment to the hospital staff saying they were highly irresponsibly in carrying out their duties. ...
01:53 PM, Jan 03, 2012
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