Businessman arrested for torturing domestic help
2007-08-12 21:35:00
Kolkata ( Calcutta ) : A Burrabazar businessman has been arrested
for torturing his nine-year-old domestic help, brought away from her mother with the promise of treatment like “his own daughter”.Howrah resident Ibrahim Dayer’s wife and daughter have also been accused of torturing the girl.Police said the mother and daughter are “absconding”.Dayer, 48, was picked up from his house on Alam Mistry Lane in the Golabari area last night.“Dayer, his wife and daughter used to thrash Sabina Yasmin with serving spoons and scald her with a ladle,” Howrah superintendent of police Niraj Kumar Singh said.The girl from Debrajpur in North 24-Parganas’ Basirhat came about 90km away to Howrah after a neighbour who worked in Burrabazar told her mother she knew a babu who wanted a help for home.Three years on, Sabina could not take the beating anymore. She fled her employer’s home before the break of dawn on July 30.Sabina boarded the first train she spotted at Howrah station but realis
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Berlin NGO to help Kolkata's riverfront
2007-08-12 21:32:00
Kolkata ( Calcutta ) : Habitat Forum Berlin
, an NGO for housing and urban development, is keen to lend a hand in the rejuvenation of Calcutta’s riverfront.“The river here is special, but just like Berlin, Calcutta, too, has its back to the river,” lamented Günter Nest, a professor at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weibensee (school of art), an associate professor at the University School of Design in Mysore and the director of the forum.Nest, who has done extensive research on the role of Indian NGOs in coastal Andhra Pradesh, wants to organise a series of seminars in collaboration with Max Mueller Bhavan (MMB), Calcutta.“We can invite experts and planners from Europe’s great waterfront cities like Hamburg, Paris, London and Rotterdam to share their experience, besides involving artists, writers and even musicians for creative inputs,” the German urban design professor told Metro.Nest felt that it’s important to “bring the water to the people and the people to the water”
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Explosion at Kolkata McDonald's
2007-08-12 21:16:00
Shop owner R.Z. Irani watched a surreal “scene out of the movies” on Park Street this morning — a loud bang, metal and glass shards flying and a bystander tossed into the air, the back of his skull blown off.An explosion at the McDonald
’s outlet on the city’s fun street, which flung the joint’s shutters across the road and smashed the windscreens of cars parked nearby, killed a 21-year-old salesman, Aftab Hussain Ansari, and left four employees severely burnt.The tragedy at the symbol of the lifestyle changes sweeping the city in recent years also claimed a representative of old Park Street.Bar-B-Q and One Step Up owner S.S. “Baba” Kothari, 70, suffered a heart attack while inspecting the damage to another restaurant he owns, Flavours of China, and died on the way to the Belle Vue clinic. His younger brother Nitin Kothari runs Peter Cat and Mocambo.What averted a carnage was that it was only 9.34am and the joint was still half an hour from letting in the public. On Marc
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India Independence Kolkata Show
2007-08-12 00:39:00
Independence Day has become synonymous with August 15, and since we India
ns love to celebrate such occasions unquestioningly, this day is used as an excuse to hold shows and sales of every variety. Aakriti Art Gallery presents “Freedom: What it means to me”, and although many of the works — not just paintings — are relevant to the theme, one cannot say the same about all the exhibits. There are some thrown in at random. This is, however, not a comment on the quality of works for most bear the stamp of competence.One must also hasten to add that it goes to the gallery’s credit that it has taken the risk to exhibit Soma’s Vandemataram, a 52” x 40” x 6” soft-medium work in deep red with suggestions of the forms of, in all probability, freedom fighters.Although there were far too many works by different artists for a viewer to take in at one go, some could be recalled more easily. Some had made an impression for their size — Atin Basak’s 60” x 26” etching and Raje
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Kolkata Dalhousie Pavements
2007-08-12 00:10:00
Aalpin theke aeroplane, goes the saying. Apparently on the Dalhousie Square pavements you get everything from pins to an aeroplane. It may be a sweeping statement, but it holds.The pavements have been overflowing with everything delightful and cheap, from soap dishes to transistors to nylon clotheslines to posters of gods and goddesses to magnifying glasses to watches to calendars to aphrodisiacs, particularly since the Eighties. To the casual observer, they do still. But closer scrutiny reveals that with the changing times, the pavements have changed, while remaining the same. The teeming Dalhousie pavements, which house a substantial number of the city’s 230,000 hawkers, are perhaps a reflection of our troubled times.One of the first sights to greet someone walking down the pavement along GPO from the Koilaghat Street side is of money-order forms. Men still send money through the post office back home in Bihar or Uttar Pradesh, and the men who sell the forms often have to write it
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Student brutally ragged in university
2007-08-11 09:06:00
Suman Das’s first day in a private engineering college turned out to be his last there, when the boy from Jadavpur was brutally ragged by seniors and then ordered to leave the campus by the principal.According to a complaint lodged with Jadavpur police station by Shankar Ranjan Das, his 18-year-old son was kicked, punched and slashed by students of Saroj Mohan Institute of Technology in Guptipara in the classroom on Thursday.Suman, who is now under observation at MR Bangur Hospital in Tollygunge, had secured 86 per cent marks in Higher Secondary and then cleared the joint entrance exams to gain admission to the mechanical engineering stream in Saroj Mohan Institute of Technology in Hooghly district.According to the complaint, the father and son had gone to the institute on Thursday morning. Trouble started as soon as Suman entered the classroom. Some seniors surrounded him and demanded to know why he was in jeans and why his hair was not cut short.When Suman replied he was not aware
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Resisting Industrialization is politically motivated
2007-08-11 08:58:00
Kolkata ( Calcutta ) : The agitation upholding the cause of agriculture in India by resisting industrialisation is politically
motivated, Ratan Tata said today.Replying to a shareholder’s question at the annual general meeting of Tata Tea in Calcutta, Tata said those leading the agitation should do something for agriculture instead. “Why is there farmers’ suicide in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra?” he asked.He went on to add that people who wanted farmland to be reserved for agriculture should ensure farmers and those depending on agriculture did not live below poverty line.He lamented the bid to delay the small-car project in Singur. “It’s getting delayed. But we are trying to do what best we can to meet our target.”Tata Motors had said it would roll out the first car by the second half of 2008.The government’s delay in handing over the 997-acre plot — because of protests over land acquisition — and waterlogging at the site during monsoon has slowed down the work.T
CPI-ML protests Indian Independence Day
2007-08-15 00:06:00
Siliguri , West Bengal (14 August) : The Communist Party of India (Marxists-Leninist) would observe the Independence
Day tomorrow as protest day. The party would organise a protest rally and public meeting at Bagdogra.Informing this, the CPI-ML general secretary Mr Kanu Sanyal, said: “We do not recognise 15 August as the Independence Day
. India didn’t get freedom on that day, rather it was a mere transfer of power.”According to the CPI-ML sources, a protest rally slated for 10 am tomorrow would mark the beginning of the protest day programme.The rally would originate from Upper Bagdogra area and would march up to the Airport More. Plantation workers and peasants are expected to take part in the rally.After the protest rally, a public meeting would be held near Station More at Bagdogra. the CPI-ML state secretary, Mr Subrata Basu and state executive member Mr Swadesh Banerjee would address the gathering.Source: The Telegraph
Dengue affected Durgapur
2007-08-15 00:04:00
Durgapur , West Bengal : Durgapur recorded its first case of dengue today. The patient has been admitted to the state ESI hospital.Sima Dasgupta (40) was rushed to the hospital after she complained of high fever and body-ache on Sunday. After taking an Immuno Globilin M test (IGM), the hospital authorities confirmed the case as dengue. The Durgapur civic body has already been informed about the matter. About 200 patients have been rushed to the Purbasthali block hospital this evening with high fever and the hospital authority suspects an outbreak of chikunguniya. A medical team has been rushed to the Dasti village in Nadanghat Assembly segment.Mrs Dasgupta had been suffering from constant high fever and according to her husband, Mr Arun Dasgupta, a driver with the enforcement branch: “My house is located adjacent to a dirty pond where millions of mosquito breed daily. The civic body has never taken an initiative to clean the water body,”. He added: “She was suffering from high fe
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Survival by the Tri-Color Flag
2007-08-15 00:01:00
Siliguri , West Bengal : Waiting for Independence Day to hoist tri-colours in schools is a common thing among the children. But not all children in the country are lucky enough to celebrate the day in schools. Meet a deaf and dumb girl who helps her family survive by making tri-colours.Jyotshna Shil (15), deaf and dumb by birth, was not fortunate enough to go to school. Unlike others who, after availing education and training at the government’s expense, blame the country for lack of employment opportunities, Jyotshna did not get the opportunity to receive vocational training to make herself self-reliant.However, living with her parents at Telipara near Eastern Bypass in Siliguri, Jyotshna has learnt how to sew the National Flag, a prime income source for the lower income group family. Jyotshna now joins her family in this “seasonal business” during December to January and June to August every year and help it earn sum quick-bucks that would sustain them through the year. “She
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Security Beefed up at Malda
2007-08-14 23:59:00
Malda , West Bengal : Security has been beefed up at the Malda Town Station and its surrounding areas following Intelligence reports that the Ulfa and KLO could carry out attacks on the station or its adjacent areas.The Malda SP, Mr Dilip Mondal inspected the sites personally today and checked the security arrangements first hand. According to Intelligence inputs, the KLO in particular could train its gun on Malda as its hardliner leader Malkhan Singh is lodged in Malda jail. That Maoist activist Mr Animesh Chakraborty is also in Malda jail is an additional headache for the Malda police.The police are leaving nothing to chance under the circumstances. The Malda SP himself came down to personally frisk the luggage of 25 passengers of the down Kanchenjangha Express at Malda Town Station and interrogated some people sleeping on the platform, today.The police are going through the compartments of every train passing the route. The English Bazaar police station and Malda GRP have jointly ta
Air Passenger in Jail Custody
2007-08-14 23:57:00
Siliguri , West Bengal : Narendra Singh Shekhawat (54) who was arrested at the Bagdogra Airport yesterday for carrying 12 live bullets, was today sent to jail custody. The police have, however, released Shekhawat’s son, Janardhan Singh Shekhawat after interrogation.The Bagdogra police produced him in the court of the sub-divisional judicial magistrate, Siliguri, this morning, but the case could not be taken up for hearing owing to a statewide cease-work agitation by lawyers.Now, the case would only be taken up on Thursday, as tomorrow being the Independe- nce Day, is a national holiday. The police, in the meantime, have ruled out any criminal intention on the part of the arrested air passenger who was caught red-handed carrying the 4.5 mm cartridges.“His father Mr Ashu Singh Shekhawat is a retired Army man and possesses an arms license. Narendra apparently took his father’s bag with him, in which the bullets were kept,” said the ASP, Siliguri, Mr Rajesh Yadav.The ASP added that
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Vector diseases spreads in Semi Urban Areas
2007-08-14 23:54:00
Kolkata ( Calcutta ) : Such vector-borne viral diseases as chikungunya and dengue, which are known as urban diseases, have started spreading to semi-urban areas like Habra in North 24-Parganas owing to rapid urbanisation. A team of entomologists from the School of Tropical Medicine singled out the reason after visiting the area last week.Dr Dhruba Niyogi, director, STM, said: “We have found larvae of Aedes Aegypti mosquito, the carrier of dengue and chikungunya, in the affected area. It was also noticed that the particular mosquito species has found enough breeding centres with clean and stagnant water in the area. This happened because people are using air-conditioning machines in semi-urban areas also. Several concrete structures are being constructed where clean and stagnant water were visible. In brief, rapid urbanisation is helping the diseases spread in the non-urban areas, too.”Experts said the Aedes Aegypti breeds in clean and stagnant water, especially in the air-condition
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Maidan pure poison
2007-08-14 11:46:00
Kolkata ( Calcutta ) : A recent report by a central institute has corroborated earlier findings that the air around the Maidan, while it was being mauled by the Book Fair last year, was pure poison.The report, by National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, points out that the average suspended particulate matter (SPM) and respirable particulate matter (RPM) levels in the air around Victoria Memorial during Book Fair 2006 were 465 and 282 micrograms per cubic metre, respectively.The permissible limits for the two key pollutants are 200 and 100. In sensitive zones, such as the area around Victoria Memorial, they are even less — 100 and 75.“If such was the state of the ambient air at Victoria Memorial, think of the pollution levels at the fairground,” said green activist Subhas Dutta, who has a copy of the report that was submitted to the high court. “The pollution control board had pointed out that such high levels of pollutants could prove fatal for children and the a
Ansari home between anguish and anger
2007-08-14 11:44:00
Kolkata ( Calcutta ) : The one-room Ansari home in Queens Mansion is torn between anguish and anger
.The morning after Aftab Hussain Ansari left home to go to the market but never returned, mother Rauzon Khatoon sat weeping, silently and inconsolably.At 9.34am on Sunday, Aftab Hussain Ansari was waiting to cross Park Street and enter the Queens Mansion gates when the McDonald’s blast felled him. The 24-year-old died on Park Street, a shout away from home, the back of his head smashed in.“Aftab was very close to ammi. She has refused to eat anything. She has been crying since yesterday morning,” said her elder son Afzal.Afzal is angry — as much with fate as with the source of the blast that claimed his brother. “We have written to the local police station, informing them how my brother died. We have requested them to help us get adequate compensation from the McDonald’s authorities,” he said.An official statement from McDonald’s India on Monday afternoon read: “We are i
Malda flood hit - 500 homeless
2007-08-20 08:12:00
Malda , West Bengal : The Ganga, flowing above the extreme danger level, has gobbled up two villages in Manikchak over the past four days, forcing nearly 150 people to take shelter on higher grounds.The situation is equally desperate in Ratua I block, where the Phulhar river has flood
ed four villages following incessant rain since August 15. More than 350 people have been rendered homeless
and 3,000 cut off from the rest of the district.Fresh erosions have also taken place on a 2km stretch along the river between Jalanghitola and Ratanpur in the same block. A 40-year-old woman suffering from an enteric disease died without treatment after the authorities failed to arrange for a boat to take her to the nearest health centre.Executive engineer of the irrigation department Soumen Mitra said the water levels of all the rivers passing through the district are rising fast.“Both the Ganga and the Phulhar are flowing above the extreme danger level,” he said. “We fear that the situation w
Police act to disperse crowd
2007-08-20 08:09:00
Singur , West Bengal : Police
lobbed 150 teargas shells today to disperse a Save Farmland Committee mob trying to pull down a section of the wall around the Tata Motors plot.In heavy rain, about 300 people led by Trinamul Congress leader Becharam Manna assembled at New Ujjal Sangha’s playground in Bajemelia, 100 metres from the wall, a little after noon.The police took position when they started moving towards the project site, raising slogans against the Tatas.The mob was armed with stones and the police batons proved ineffective against attackers standing at a distance.“The mob was very aggre-ssive. There would have been casualties had we not lobbed teargas shells in defence,” Hooghly superintendent of police Rajib Mishra said.A shell injured activist Ramesh Koley and the news emboldened the attackers. Police were also pelted with stones at Beraberi Purbapara, Khasherbheri, Bosepukur and Gopalnagar.The trouble lasted for nearly two hours.Mishra said 150 rounds of teargas shells
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Bag with bombs in Howrah
2007-08-20 08:07:00
Kolkata ( Calcutta ) : Three bombs with “great” potential to cause devastation were found in a black folio bag behind a mill in Howrah’s Dasnagar this afternoon.Most of Alamohan Das Road did not have a clue to the close shave, though, when the area shook up with the deafening sound of an explosion, triggered by the CID’s bomb disposal squad.“Had the bombs gone off, the devastation would have been great if not massive. Although handmade, the bombs were not the usual types that we find on criminals. The explosives were of very high grade, something which we didn’t quite expect,” a senior officer of the Dasnagar police station said.Residents spotted the bag in the lane behind Arati Cotton Mill around 2pm.It had three tin cans wrapped in cello-tape. They immediately called the police station, a few yards away.“Our officers took a close look at the bag and decided to call experts. The cans did not seem to contain anything, but we didn’t want to take a chance. So we cordone
Kala-azar affects South Dinajpur
2007-08-20 08:05:00
Balurghat , West Bengal : Kala-azar has killed three persons in South
Dinajpur while more than 250 people have been infected by the disease.According to reports with the district health department, Sushila Kisku, 42, died of kala-azar in Sandhyapukur village in Tapan block on Friday. Her husband, Jahan Baske, 50, had died of the same disease a month ago. Another woman also died at Khaspur in Balurghat block recently.The deputy chief medical officer of health, Omkarnath Mondol, said according to official reports 189 people have been affected by the disease in Tapan block alone. “Besides, in Harirampur, Balurghat and Gangarampur blocks too people have been suffering from kala-azar. We have taken steps to treat these patients and are also spraying DDT in the areas. There are 25 teams comprising six members each doing this vector-control exercise,” Mondol said.Kala-azar is caused by the parasite Leishmania donovani, which is transmitted to the human body through the bite of the sand fl
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Kolkata Rock Festival
2007-08-19 01:30:00
Emmanuelle de Decker, the tall and graceful former deputy director of cultural events at Alliance Francaise de Calcutta, is helping to put together the Calcutta Rock Festival
, the brainchild of two Calcutta bands.Calcutta Rock Festival? Well, not many may know about it, but this effort by two original rock bands, Cassini’s Division and Supersonics, is already into its second year. It was a one-day event held at Nicco Park Super Bowl in February and had three bands performing: Supersonics, Cassini’s Division with Hoof Hooey doing the opening act.This year, the bands are planning the event for December in a much bigger avatar. “We are looking at an audience of 1,000 to 2,000. And at Nalban and Swabhumi as venues, but there is still time,” says Emmanuelle, who is managing the event. This edition will be a three-day affair with big national names as well as the more established original rock bands from Calcutta and opening acts by rising rockers. One or two international acts may b
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INOX Kolkata Plus Plans
2007-08-18 02:21:00
Kolkata ( Calcutta ) : INOX Leisure Ltd (ILL), owner of the INOX brand, is moving into top gear with its Calcutta-plus plans. “We are bullish on Calcutta, which stems from the overwhelming response of the city’s cine-goers to our existing properties (four screens each in Forum and City Centre) and the proactive nature of the local administration. By the first quarter of 2010, we are looking at 16 multiplexes with 60 screens in Bengal. Our national target is 53 plexes and 206 screens,” Alok Tandon, chief operating officer of the group, tells Metro.INOX introduced Calcutta to multiplex magic in September 2003. It has hit many highs in the city, including record footfall of 5,950 on a single day (May 1, 2006). “The average occupancy rate is around 56-60 per cent in Calcutta, the highest in the country,” says Vikas Syal, the regional general manager.City Centre II in New Town, Rajarhat, is slated to house Calcutta’s third INOX multiplex, to open by March 2008, with four screens
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RI imprisonment for assault
2007-08-18 02:19:00
Kolkata ( Calcutta ) : Alipore court on Friday sentenced three men convicted in the Biswarup Roy Choudhury murder case to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment (RI).The convicts — Paresh Mukherjee, Notan Talukdar and Kochi Haldar — will also have to pay a fine of Rs 2,000 each and spend a year in jail for assaulting the wife and son of the victim.“The prison terms will run concurrently,” said the judge, Suryendu Biswas.Roy Choudhury, the owner of an eatery on Lake View Road, called Pink Giraffe, died on Saptami night, 2004, after being assaulted by the convicts over a dispute over vacating the restaurant premises.Mukherjee, the landlord of the building in which the eatery was housed, and his two accomplices beat up Roy Choudhury, and his wife and son. Roy Choudhury succumbed to his injuries the same night. The trio was arrested the next day.While convicting the three on Thursday, the judge had said: “This is case of culpable homicide. The accused had assaulted the victim but had
Govt. promotion to river island Jharkhali
2007-08-18 02:15:00
Kolkata ( Calcutta ) : The traditional tourists’ route to the Sunderbans via Sajnekhali is set to change with the government deciding to promote river island Jharkhali as the gateway to the mangrove forest.A bridge across the Vidyadhari connects Jharkhali with the mainland. So, the island 130km from Calcutta is directly accessible by road.Land and land reforms minister Abdur Rezzak Mollah, Sunderbans development minister Kanti Ganguly and forest minister Ananta Roy met this afternoon to finalise plans that include building hotels and resorts.“We’ll not depend on one big promoter this time. Tenders will be issued seeking joint venture partners,” Ganguly said.The government had signed a deal with Sahara three years ago to promote a grand tourism project in the Hooghly delta. But the investor backed out later.Consultant Mackintosh Burn has prepared a draft proposal, which splits the island into four zones reserved for restaurants, food courts, a Sunerbans theme museum and a conven
Mother and Daughter forced to march nude
2007-08-18 02:12:00
Durgapur , West Bengal : A young, married woman and her mother were stripped, thrashed and paraded last night by her uncle, who apparently wanted to sleep with her.Bimal Mondal and his three henchmen had attacked Nirmal Mondal’s house in the Purbasthali area of Burdwan on Sunday as well after his daughter turned down his proposal.Nirmal’s daughter got married eight months ago, but stayed on with the parents as her husband worked in Bangalore.On Sunday night, fish trader and local tough Bimal, 35, and his men broke into the Mondals’ house, looted everything they could lay their hands on and molested his sleeping niece.The father and daughter lodged a complaint with the Purbasthali police station the following day. But the police did nothing.Furious that Nirmal had gone to the police, Bimal and his associates dragged his family out last night, stripped the women and beat them up. The mother and daughter were made to march nude through the village streets, around 180km from Calcutta
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Advocate murdered in Calcutta Home
2007-08-17 03:29:00
Kolkata ( Calcutta ) : Shyama Prasad Roy, 54, was dead on Thursday, kneeling on his bed with his hands tied behind his back, his feet trussed together and a gag stuffed into his mouth. The advocate had been murdered
in his south Calcutta home, off Rashbehari Avenue, on Tuesday.“The way Roy was murdered suggests that the assassin might have committed the crime either to take revenge or out of a deep personal grudge,” said Jawed Shamim, the deputy commissioner of police (south division). “The flat was not ransacked and nothing appears to have been stolen. The reason behind the killing is not clear yet.”Roy’s body was discovered on Thursday after neighbour Laltu Mukherjee sounded the alarm on detecting a stench emanating from the second-floor flat, where he lived alone since his wife Krishna and daughter Nandita left him eight years ago.Police arrived at the Park Side Road building and broke into the flat to find Roy’s body on the bed, wrapped in a blanket.Mukherjee was the la
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One more Dowry Death
2007-08-17 03:26:00
Kolkata ( Calcutta ) : Homemaker Soma Chatterjee, 33, was found hanging from the ceiling of her bedroom at her Regent Park home, in Garia, on Wednesday. Husband Asish, parents-in-law and sister-in-law have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the death.Soma’s seven-year-old son Akashnil has been handed over to her father Durgapada Ganguly.Police said Soma, who was allegedly tortured for dowry, was married for seven years. They lived on the ground floor of the building, while her in-laws lived on the first floor.“Soma was often harassed by her in-laws when Asish went out of town on business,” alleged Sulekha Ganguly, the next-door neighbour.According to another neighbour, Asish left home on Monday and came back with some friends around 12.30pm on Wednesday. “Minutes later, Asish came out of the house and announced that his wife had hanged herself. But we sensed a foul play,” he said.Neighbours said the Chatterjees, living in the area for 30 years, mostly kept to them
Nokia Battery BL-5C
2007-08-17 03:23:00
Kolkata ( Calcutta ) : Sara Mukherjee, a college student, is married to her mobile. Yet, all of Independence Day, she did not touch her Nokia
handset. “I did not even go near it, fearing that it would explode,” she admitted.A dash to the Nokia service centre in Tollygunge on Thursday morning certified her set safe and so she was promptly back on her mobile.Debashis Das, a businessman from Bansdroni, was not that lucky. The same service centre gave his phone battery the thumbs down and said it must be replaced.But Das would have to wait for three days, as the demand for Nokia batteries is outpacing supply ever since the company issued a statement on Tuesday that a certain set of BL-5C batteries were prone to overheating and would be replaced.Nokia India director (marketing) Devinder Kishore said on Tuesday that customers need not go to any Nokia centre. One must run a self-check and if the battery is found to be from the faulty batch, it would be replaced and delivered home within 1
Man arrested for mail threats on I-Day
2007-08-17 03:20:00
Kolkata , (Calcutta ) : A 31-year-old private firm employee who sent police into a tizzy by sending emails threatening terrorist strikes in the city on Independence Day was arrested
from Shyampukur in north Calcutta this afternoon.According to the deputy commissioner of police (special branch), Vineet Goyal, Raja Ram Saroj had identified Writers’ Buildings, the Tarakeshwar temple, Lalbazar police headquarters and Howrah Bridge as targets.He had sent the mails to the websites of Calcutta police and security agencies on August 13.“He had also sent a mail to the PMO (Prime Minister’s Office) claiming knowledge of a plot to kill the Prime Minister on August 15,” Goyal said.Saroj is from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh and has been staying in Calcutta for five years.“He is a graduate and works in a private company. He has a diploma in marketing management,” Goyal said.“We are trying to find out if it was a hoax mail or whether he has any links with terrorists,” he added.Source: Th
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