Guwahati: To travel across all 28 states of India and neighbouring Bhutan in a Tata Nano car covering around 25,000 kms is no easy task. Yet, this is being attempted by 62-year-old Kochi-based car enthusiast Thomas Chacko, who has so far covered 5,400 km in the small car and reached Guwahati on Saturday. Starting his journey from Mumbai on May 3, Chacko has so far travelled through Indore, Bhopal, Khajuraho,...
07:40 PM, May 20, 2012
Kolkata: At least nine persons were killed when a thunderstorm hit several districts of West Bengal on Sunday. In Murshidabad, four farmers who were busy working in the field at separate places were killed by lightning, officials said. Similarly in South 24 Parganas district, Rita Mandal, 70, and Sanath Mistri, 65, were struck by lightning when they were working outside their houses in Gosaba block. Besides Gosaba, Canning and Basanti...
06:00 PM, Apr 08, 2012
Kolkata: At least nine persons were killed when a thunderstorm hit several districts of West Bengal on Saturday. In Murshidabad, four farmers who were busy working in the field at separate places were killed by lightning, officials said. Similarly, in South 24 Parganas district, Rita Mandal, 70, and Sanath Mistri, 65, were struck by lightning when they were working outside their houses in Gosaba block. Besides Gosaba, Canning and Basanti...
10:09 PM, Apr 07, 2012
Kolkata: A 3-year-old child who was admitted with a severe leg wound has been reported dead in Murshidabad district. The parents allege that the 3-year-old was given a sedative after which her condition deteriorated. The parents also alleged inaction on the part of the authorities that the doctors did not refer the kid to the Behrampore subdivisional hospital on time. ...
11:06 AM, Apr 02, 2012
Murshidabad: Babar Ali was CNN-IBN's Real Hero in 2009 as he was perhaps the youngest school principal in the world. It's a unique school where a 27-year-old Mumtaz Begum sits attentively and listens to the teacher and her 7-year-old daughter studies in the nearby classroom. Mumtaz is in her 9th standard and wants to give board exams next year. Babar was a young and lanky 16-year-old when CNN-IBN met him...
09:53 AM, Mar 30, 2012
Murshidabad: Enraged by the continuous bawling of his infant daughter, a man allegedly flung the two-month-old baby down a drain resulting in her death in West Bengal's Murshidabad district, police said on Monday. "Mujibur Sheikh, a mason, was at his home and got irritated by the continuous crying of his baby. He asked the mother to calm the baby, but she failed. Enraged, he threw the baby into a drain...
04:53 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday dismissed the opposition charge that the recent crib deaths in state-run hospitals in Malda and Murshidabad were due to medical negligence. "In Malda, 8,000 babies are born outside hospitals. In Murshidabad too, non-institutional births run into several thousands. These babies who are brought to hospitals do not die due to negligence. But if negligence occurs, the guilty will be punished," Banerjee...
05:26 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
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday blamed the Left for ruining the state's healthcare following death of a newborn baby at a hospital in Murshidabad after doctors used acid instead of Dettol as a disinfectant. Recounting her horror at the hospital, 28-year-old Shikha said, "I was unconscious. When I woke up, I heard my baby is dead and my legs were burning." During delivery her legs were...
09:22 PM, Nov 02, 2011
New Delhi: Reacting to the news of an infant's death during delivery after carbolic acid was used instead of dettol, West Bengal Chief Minister on Wednesday blamed the previous government of CPI (M) for the poor medical system in the state. "CPI (M) haven't created proper system. District hospitals don't have proper facilities, little infants are brought to Kolkata who are already ill," Banerjee said. "There are no hospitals for...
02:42 PM, Nov 02, 2011
New Delhi: In a shocking incident of medical negligence, it was found that an infant was declared dead after birth because carbolic acid was used instead of dettol to disinfect during delivery. The incident happened in Murshidabad in West Bengal. The bottle of acid apparently kept in the place of dettol. The hospital authorities have set up an enquiry committee to look into the matter. The incident happened at Lalbag...
12:29 PM, Nov 02, 2011
Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen maintains terror training camps in West Bengal's Murshidabad, Malda and Nadia districts. ...
11:54 AM, Jun 17, 2010
The clash broke out between two groups over change in lunch break timings. ...
11:28 PM, Jul 11, 2009
Dhaka; Marlon Samuels and Lendl Simmons cracked half-centuries to help the West Indies clinch the one-day series with an easy eight-wicket win over Bangladesh in the second match on Saturday. Samuels scored a brisk 88 not out and opener Simmons an impressive 80 as the West Indies achieved a 221-run target with more than seven overs to spare in the day-night match for an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three-game...
01:18 PM, Mar 10, 2008
Hyderabad: Delhi Daredevils skipper Virender Sehwag never felt that a target of 176 was impossible to achieve even when three of the top-batsmen wer back in the hut within first six overs. Sehwag whose Herculean 119 off only 56 balls saw Daredevils beat Deccan Chargers by four wickets in an IPL match here on Thursday. I was always telling my boys that if a set batsman can bat for 15-16...
02:55 PM, Jan 22, 2008
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