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First such Bengal attack: Maoists kill two cops and abduct another

Wednesday 21 October '09

In the first such attack on a police station in West Bengal, a team of at least 50 heavily armed Maoists — including at least five women...
Chhatradhar’s mantle falls on Asit Mahato

Saturday 17 October '09

After the arrest of People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities chief Chhatradhar Mahato, Asit Mahato, a farmer, is emerging as the new leader of the outfit and will probably be filling up the leadership vacuum in the PCAPA.
Mahato slipping out of UAPA muddle, top cops go in a huddle

Friday 9 October '09

The confusion over application of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act has led a virtual standoff between the state’s investigating agencies and a section of the judiciary.
Hoardings at major points blind city’s traffic

Monday 28 September '09

Despite the tall claims of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation of making the city hoarding-free and reducing “visual pollution”...
Cyclone Aila ‘passes through’ Sonarpur pandal

Friday 25 September '09

In a step ahead of most Puja organisers in Kolkata, a Puja committee at Sonarpur in South 24-Parganas has attempted to recreate the havoc caused by Cyclone Aila.
State misses people’s ‘pulse’ again

Thursday 17 September '09

At a time when prices of essential commodities have witnessed a steep rise, the state government’s inefficiency has left a stock of nearly 3,800 metric tonnes of pulses unfit for human consumption.
No solid roof over head, Kumartuli artisans bear with losses

Tuesday 15 September '09

Four-storeyed buildings with a big hall for the artisans to make their idols in hygienic conditions. Clean and broad roads with proper lights.
Cheap sugar nowhere, govt doles out potatoes

Monday 14 September '09

Fourteen days after its announcement that sugar and mustard oil will be supplied through the Public Distribution System (PDS) from September 1, the state government is yet to keep its promise.
Fingers pointed at investigators

Saturday 5 September '09

The cop-realtor nexus seems to have taken its toll on the investigation of the Vedic Village arson case.
Despite tall claims, govt fails to supply food items for PDS

Thursday 3 September '09

Despite repeated promises of supplying sugar, pulses and mustard oil at a cheaper rate through the public distribution system, the state government again failed to supply these food items from September 1.
Monkey trail has more sting in the tail

Wednesday 2 September '09

With the theft of eight marmosets from the Alipore zoo, illegal trade of exotic animals in West Bengal...
Govt trying to scuttle TMC man’s postmortem, says Mamata

Saturday 1 August '09

Union Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee said on Friday that the state government was deliberately trying to botch the postmortem of slain Trinamool worker Sahabat Khan Chowdhury.
Ration shops will now sell branded food items

Thursday 30 July '09

For the first time ever, the food and supply department of the state government which is headed by a minister from the Forward Bloc...
Months after land bank order, KMDA in no man’s land

Monday 27 July '09

At a time, when the state politics moves around the land issues and the Municipal Affairs and Urban Development Minister Ashok Bhattacharjee and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee...
‘KMC diverted funds meant for schemes to its private partner’

Thursday 23 July '09

Eight years have passed since the then state municipal secretary G Balachandran had written to the municipal commissioner for recovery of Rs 3 crore...
Perched on shaky dikes, villagers pray aid comes before killer waves

Wednesday 22 July '09

Almost two months after Cyclone Aila battered the Sunderbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, there is another disaster waiting to happen.
Stocks over, govt suspends potato business

Tuesday 21 July '09

After operating for just six days, outlets for selling potatoes at 16 selected markets in the city were closed down for two days without any notice...
Fund crunch plagues KMDA, city projects take hit

Monday 20 July '09

The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) is facing difficulty in completing the Rs 33,000 crore Dankuni Township project after the project partner DLF pulled of the project...
City of Joy may face monsoon wading soon

Friday 10 July '09

Water-logging will return to haunt the residents of Kolkata this monsoon and the possibility is high that it may even worsen.
KMC staff sacked for turning back on malaria patient

Thursday 9 July '09

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation on Wednesday removed the lab-technician from duty who had refused to treat a malaria patient.
Denied drugs by KMC, man loses vision to malaria

Tuesday 7 July '09

A patient suffering from malignant malaria has lost vision in one of his eyes after he was refused timely treatment by a clinic run by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation...
Dhapa, Garden Reach water works far from 2010 deadline

Monday 6 July '09

While the Kolkata Municipal Corporation is telling people affected by severe water crisis that the completion of projects like Dhapa and Garden Reach water treatment plants will solve their woes...
Howrah mishap: bus operators, CITU in the dock

Monday 6 July '09

After Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee claimed that the system of giving commission to bus drivers leads them to drive recklessly...
Storing up a problem

Friday 3 July '09

Soaring potato prices have returned to haunt farmers and average consumers this summer again.
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