As with Salman Rushdie in Jaipur, a book launch involving controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin was cancelled here on Wednesday following pressure from Islamist groups. HT reports.
A city court today granted interim bail to renowned doctor Mani Chettri, arrested in connection with the fire at AMRI Hospital in Kolkata that claimed 93 lives.
The Trinamool Congress today refused to comment on the special CBI court's order declining to make home minister P Chidambaram an accused in the 2G spectrum case, but added that the guilty should be punished.
Close on the heels of battered baby Falak's case, another shocking incident has come to light of a seven-month-old baby girl found abandoned in a compartment of the Toofan Express at Madhpur Station.
Pakistani politician Imran Khan today said that Anna Hazare's crusade against corruption would be more effective if the Gandhian joins politics.
Describing the AMRI Hospital fire as one of the saddest moments of her life, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said veteran doctor Mani Chhetri had been arrested in connection with the incident.
Arriving directly from the World Economic Forum meet at Davos, Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf leader and prime ministerial hopeful Imran Khan said: “The Pakistan military will not step in to rule the country. They would have come in already had they planned to. This time things are different.”
Between the moment Imran Khan sat down on the stage and when he started to speak, a veritable riot of media photographers had broken out inside the packed hall at the Kolkata Literary Meet (KLM). Indrajit Hazra writes.
The kins of those who were killed by the Maoists might get job in government offices. Though the state government had not officially declared that yet, but had asked the district administration to send them the data of the families mentioning the academic qualification and age of the family members.
Taking her running feud with the central government a big step farther, Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee on Monday took potshots at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh himself, instead of her usual targets — West Bengal Congress leaders.
HT reports.
Mamata skips meeting with JairamThe horror of crib deaths hit Kolkata again with eight infants dying at the BC Ray Memorial Hospital for Children, the sole state-run referral hospital for treatment of newborns and children in Bengal. HT reports.
Sixty four years after his death, Mahatma Gandhi's name on Sunday created a world record in the Guinness Book as 485 underprivileged boys brought out a peace march dressed as Bapu.
If Jaipur was all about the writer who never came, Kolkata has been all about Vikram Seth. The short author of fat books (“Yes, fat ‘uns, not fat-was,” he quipped) took to the stage twice on the first day of the Kolkata Literary Meet on Thursday.
Indrajit Hazra writes.
A gang of Bangladeshi pirates attacked three Indian trawlers in the Bay of Bengal killing three fishermen including a father and a son and hijacked one of these vessels holding 14 fishermen captive.
Fifty days after the Amri fire in which 91 patients and two hospital staffers lost their lives, the Kolkata police on Friday arrested two hospital directors, Dr MK Chhetri, 92, and Dr Pronab Dasgupta, 66, both top ranking physicians of the city, on charges of negligence. This takes the total number of arrests in the Amri case to 13.