Kolkata: Noted Rabindra Sangeet exponent Ritu Guha died here this evening after complaining of breathing problem, family members said. She was 74. Guha suffered from breathing trouble today and was rushed to the hospital. She died on the way to hospital, family members said. The singer is survived by husband, noted writer Buddhadeb Guha, and two daughters. Guha is remembered for her famous Tagore songs like 'Eki labanye purnapran', 'Majha...
12:52 PM, Dec 25, 2011
Kolkata: The scalpel gives way to a harmonium and the surgeon in 80-year-old Samir K Gupta steps aside for the artist as he gives musical life to some poems of 'Gitanjali' by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Gupta, who runs a city orthopaedic clinic, is a devoted doctor during the day and spends long hours of his nights composing music and writing books. " 'Gitanjali' has 157 poems, of which Tagore...
03:57 PM, Dec 01, 2011
Panaji: After Shah Rukh Khan inaugurated the 42nd Indian International Film Festival, actress Madhuri Dixit carried forward the Bollywood presence here by opening the Indian Panorama section and the short films center this morning. Dressed in a lime green knee-length dress and heels, Madhuri wore her trademark smile throughout as the media and delegates jostled to grab and eyeful of the 'dhak dhak' girl. "I am very honoured to be...
05:20 PM, Nov 24, 2011
New Delhi: It's been a year since the Medical Council of India (MCI) was dissolved and its president Ketan Desai arrested. But it seems the rot in the MCI has yet to be cleaned out. A case in point is Dr Sangeeta Sharma, the senior most officer in the MCI. CNN-IBN accessed documents that prove that the Health Ministry raised questions about the validity of her appointment as secretary. In...
06:43 PM, Sep 09, 2011
Kolkata: The West Bengal government's novel way of easing the rough ride on the city's roads by playing soulful Rabindra Sangeet at traffic signals has hit a roadblock with several of the musical devices being stolen. "Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on her way to the secretariat (Writers' Buildings) from her residence could not hear the music. She asked me to probe the reason. Unfortunately many of the pen-drives through which...
06:24 PM, Sep 09, 2011
Mumbai: Music maestro Bhupen Hazarika has been admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital in suburban Andheri here after he complained of breathing problems. The 85-year-old was hospitalised yesterday after he suffered breathing problems. He was treated immediately. He is stable and doing fine, hospital sources told PTI today. The maestro has been kept in the ICU and is under observation but is out of danger, the sources...
12:39 PM, Jun 30, 2011
New Delhi: The Medical Council of India has once again come in news for another controversy. Its new secretary has resigned alleging misbehavior by Board Members, but it remains to be seen if that is the real reason. Interestingly the news of her resignation came 24 hours after CNN-IBN contacted her, asking her whether or not her appointment was legal. The image of MCI President Ketan Desai being handcuffed and...
11:10 AM, Jun 26, 2011
New Delhi: Another controversy in the tainted Medical Council of India (MCI). MCI secretary Dr Sangeeta Sharma has resigned alleging rude and indecent behavior by the Board's Chairman, Dr KK Talwar. Incidentally, the Health Ministry had raised objections about her appointment and asked the Board of Governors if her appointment had been made under the prescribed recruitment rules. The Health Ministry wanted the MCI board to get an ACC approval...
08:26 AM, Jun 23, 2011
New Delhi: MCI Secretary Sangeeta Sharma has resigned from her position, alleging "rude and indecent" behaviour meted out to her by Board's Chairman Dr KK Talwar. She put in her papers on June 14, stating that she was resigning under duress and hoped that "no other official of any rank in the MCI shall be given such an insulting treatment in the future". "An issue is being made out of...
10:37 PM, Jun 22, 2011
Kolkata: Legendary Rabindra Sangeet exponent Suchitra Mitra died at her residence here Monday following a cardiac arrest, family sources said. She was 86. Mitra died around 1:30 pm while she was having lunch. Born in 1924, Suchitra Mitra had for six decades kept music lovers enthralled with her mellifluous rendition of Tagore songs, and her records and CDs top the popularity ratings even today. Daughter of litterateur Saurindra Mohan Mukherjee,...
03:01 PM, Jan 03, 2011
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday raided Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi's officews and residences across the country in connection with the alleged cases of corruption and irregularities in the Games. CBI officials started the raid at around 7 AM at his offices and residences in Delhi, Mumbai and Pune. Besides Kalmadi, the premises of his personal secretary Manoj Bhure in Pune were also...
12:25 PM, Dec 24, 2010
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday searched the offices and homes of four Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC) officials and filed cases against two of them - Lalit Bhanot and V.K. Verma - for alleged financial lapses. ...
08:38 PM, Nov 30, 2010
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday searched the offices and homes of four Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC) officials and filed cases against two of them - Lalit Bhanot and V.K. Verma - for alleged financial lapses. Raids are on at Kalmadi's close aide Additional Director General Sangeeta Welinkar and at the residence of former games organising committee Joint Director General RK Sacheti. CBI said that...
07:09 PM, Nov 30, 2010
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