http://www.indianexpress.com/index.php Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08 : 31 : 00 +05:30 indianexpress.com http://static.expressindia.com/frontend/iep/images/logo.gif http://www.indianexpress.com/index.php Feed provided by indianexpress.com http://www.indianexpress.com/news/asim-promises-rs-5-cr-for-science-fairs/545051/ In an attempt to inculcate scientific quest among young children State Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta today promised a sum of Rs 5 crore to the School Education Department to organise science exhibitions for schoolchildren at district and state level every year. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/tell-world-about-sunderbans-fragility-state-to-centre/545050/ The West Bengal government has asked the Centre to raise the issue of threat to the Sundarbans, one of the three most-threatened deltas in the world, at the Copenhagen Summit on climate change next month. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/profit-should-not-be-motive-for-pvt-investors-in-education/545049/ At a time when the Centre is keen to open up the education sector and mulling over legislation to rope in foreign players in the education sector... http://www.indianexpress.com/news/now-placements-in-private-engineering-colleges-from-4th-year/545048/ Unlike previous years, placement process in various private engineering colleges in the state would now begin in the fourth year from the next academic year. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/mahasweta-devi-seeks-taslimas-return-to-city/545047/ Renowned author Mahasweta Devi came out in protest on Sunday to mark the second anniversary of the day when Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen was driven out of Kolkata. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/kolkata-confidential/545046/ The CPM leadership’s discomfort with Land and Land Reforms Minister Abdur Rezzaq Mollah’s consistent salvo against his own party was evident when the party state secretariat censured him last week. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/buddha-changes-gear-turns-combative/545028/ Black flags and “Killer CM” placards failed to deter Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who was in his combative mood during his visit to East Midnapore district, a Trinamool Congress stronghold, on Sunday. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/strike-on-at-haldia-petrochem-workers-unions-clash-again/545027/ Trouble erupted at the Haldia Petrochemical Limited when clashes broke out between the members of CITU and INTUC on Sunday. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/cong-workers-get-history-law-lessons/545029/ With Bengal turning a hotbed of political violence and the state Assembly elections due in 2011... http://www.indianexpress.com/news/mamata-defends-intelligent-contribution-to-railways/545030/ Trinamool Congress chief and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday defended her decision to include members of the intelligentsia in railway committees by saying that they would continue to contribute to the development of the Railways.