Kolkata: Notwithstanding successive injuries which have plagued his international career, Bengal batsman Manoj Tiwary hopes to take the setbacks in his stride. "I don't know why injuries are chasing me, but at the end of the day I sit back and think about it... I just take it in a positive way and I have to move on because injuries are part and parcel of any sportsman's career," Tiwary said...
06:30 PM, Apr 14, 2013
Live updates from Game 17 of IPL 6 between Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Eden Gardens on Sunday. Kolkata are coming into this game after facing back-to-back losses against Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore. Hyderabad, on the other hand, have won three of their four matches and will look to topple the strong-looking KKR. ...
03:20 PM, Apr 14, 2013
Kolkata: Sex workers of Kolkata's largest red-light area are being given training by an NGO to identify fake currency notes to prevent them from being duped by some clients. The training programme conducted by Durbar Mahila Samanaya Committee, an NGO working for the sex workers, is the same as that given to visually challenged persons who learn to distinguish between genuine and counterfeit notes through touch and from hearing the...
12:48 PM, Apr 14, 2013
Kolkata: Industrialist Rama Prasad Goenka, better known as RP Goenka, died early Sunday morning at his residence in Kolkata after a brief illness, family sources said. He was 83. He is survived by his wife Sushila and sons Harsh Vardhan and Sanjiv. RP Goenka was the eldest son of Keshav Prasad Goenka. The Goenkas are one of the oldest business families of the eastern India. RP Goenka established RPG Enterprises...
09:01 AM, Apr 14, 2013
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, undergoing medical treatment for the last three days, was today discharged from the Belle Vue Clinic after agreeing to advice by doctors to take rest. "The chief minister was insisting on returning home since morning and her doctors decided to discharge her with a request to her to take rest," clinic's CEO PK Tondon told PTI. Quoting the chief minister he said she...
08:45 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Kolkata: Two days after Presidency University was vandalised by alleged Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers, West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan addressed students at the campus and started by apologising for the incident. Meanwhile, five people, including Shubhojeet Burman, whose mother has admitted he is a Trinamool student wing member, have been arrested. "I have failed you as a Governor, I have failed you as a chancellor. There are others who have...
09:27 PM, Apr 12, 2013
A freak 18-vehicle pile-up in Mumbai left two people dead and six injured. ...
09:21 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday rang up Presidency University Vice-Chancellor Malabika Sarkar and said she was devastated by the vandalism at the Baker Laboratory on April 10. "Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee called me up. She said that she was devastated by the incident as Presidency University is a dream project. She expressed her grief over what happened," Sarkar told students of the university during an interactive...
08:03 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Two days after Presidency University was vandalised by alleged Trinamool Congress workers, the Governor addressed students at the campus on Friday evening. ...
07:10 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Kolkata: An emotional West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan on Friday addressed the students of the Presidency University and said sorry for the violence that had taken place two days ago on its campus. "I want to assure the students that this will never happen again. You, especially the girl students, come to the University to build your future, not to fend off goons. I am sorry this happened," the Chancellor...
05:35 PM, Apr 12, 2013
New Delhi: One of the five persons arrested in connection with the Presidency University ransack case has got bail while the rest have been sent to judicial custody till April 26. The five arrested included Shubhojeet Burman and Jayanta Haldar. The mother of the former has admitted that he is a Trinamool Chhatra Parishad worker even as the party denies any hand in the attack. Meanwhile, West Bengal Chief Minister...
04:47 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Kolkata: The battle between the Trinamool Congress and the students of the Presidency University is getting uglier. Five people including a TMC worker have been arrested for ransacking the Presidency University. The TMC has now filed a counter-complaint against the activists of Students' Federation of India in the Presidency University for provoking them. Two Presidency University students named in the FIR have surrendered, but are expected to be out on...
02:17 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Kolkata: Two days after the attack on the Presidency University in Kolkata by alleged Trinamool Congress workers, four people, including a TMC worker, have been arrested. Those arrested are Shubhojeet Burman, Jayanta Haldar, Vishal Jaiswal and Pushkar Kumar Das. In the first clear admission of a TMC hand in the ransack, the mother of Shubhojeet Burman, one of those arrested, has acknowledged that her son is a Trinamool worker. All...
01:15 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Kolkata: West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan will meet students at Presidency University in Kolkata at 4.30 pm on Friday. He has been caught in a political crossfire between the Left and the Trinamool Congress after he asked the CPM to apologise for the attack on West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra by its party cadre in Delhi. The CPM lashed out at Narayanan with General Secretary Prakash Karat writing to...
11:48 AM, Apr 12, 2013
Kolkata: Two days after the attack on the Presidency University in Kolkata by alleged Trinamool Congress workers, two people have been arrested and three have been detained. Those arrested are Shubhojeet Burman and Jayanta Haldar and both are not students of the Presidency University. Meanwhile, the West Bengal Governor is now caught in a political crossfire between the Left and the TMC after he asked the CPM to apologise for...
10:44 AM, Apr 12, 2013
Bangalore: Shell-shocked by Chris Gayle's brutal 50-ball unbeaten 85, Kolkata Knight Riders captain Gautam Gambhir on Thursday said the West Indian took the game away from his side's reach as none of their plans worked against him in their IPL match. "We will have plans and we need to stick to those. If plan A doesn't work then Plan B will work. But sometimes none of your plans works because...
12:50 AM, Apr 12, 2013
Kolkata: Senior Trinamool Congress leader Subrata Mukherjee on Thursday hinted at an 'invisible' Congress hand behind the heckling of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and manhandling of Finance Minister Amit Mitra in Delhi on April 9. "It should be looked into if an invisible hand of Congress worked behind CPM and SFI hooliganism against the CM, Amit Mitra and I," Mukherjee, the Panchayat Minister, who was present during the...
12:47 AM, Apr 12, 2013
Five Indian Army personnel, including a Lt Colonel were killed and four injured during a UN peacekeeping mission when their 32-member convoy was attacked. ...
11:55 PM, Apr 11, 2013
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