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Centre releases ‘Rs 3 cr’ for tiger reserves

Friday 06 November, 2009

The Centre has finally released a fund of about Rs 3 crore for conservation of Sunderban and Buxa tiger sanctuaries of Bengal.
Stillborn baby’s relatives ransack hospital, arrested

Friday 06 November, 2009

Tension gripped the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital today after relatives of a stillborn child alleged medical negligence and ransacked the hospital premises.
Mob lynches two for stealing mobiles

Friday 06 November, 2009

Two youths were lynched by an irate mob in Lakshmanpur near Domjur in Howrah on early Thursday after they were suspected to be involved in stealing mobile phones, money and ornaments from morning walkers.
Art 356: CPM says go by the book

Friday 06 November, 2009

The ruling CPM though today admitted that there has been a spurt in the incidents of violence in the state, it said there was no such condition that calls for imposition of President’s rule by the Centre.
Bypolls
Alipore: Health is wealth for Trinamool man

Friday 06 November, 2009

“If I win, my first step would be to revive the PG hospital and giving it a facelift in the first year of my term,” says Firhad Hakim, the Trinamool Congress councillor who is now in the fray for Alipore Assembly seat, vacated by Tapas Paul who was elected MP in May 2009.
Governor summons chief secy to get Lalgarh update

Friday 06 November, 2009

Ahead of Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s scheduled two-day visit to West Midnapore beginning November 7, Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi today summoned state Chief Secretary Asok Mohan Chakrabarti and sought a report on the current security situation in Lalgarh.
Ready for talks, but ceasefire first: Kishenji

Friday 06 November, 2009

With the Naxals facing the heat of an imminent concerted operation by security forces, a top Maoist leader on Thursday said the rebels were ready for talks “if there was ceasefire on both sides” and paramilitary forces deployed in the Naxal-hit states were withdrawn.
This bypoll, all Assembly seats ‘sensitive’

Friday 06 November, 2009

In the wake of rising incidents of violence in the state, the Election Commission has declared all the ten Assembly constituencies going to the bypolls on November 7 as sensitive.
More troops close in on Lalgarh as Kishenji talks of ceasefire

Friday 06 November, 2009

Even as top Maoist leader Kishenji said talks were possible with the government if it declared a ceasefire and withdrew central forces from the Naxal-hit areas in various states...
Bypolls
Belgachhia East: Cliffhanger in Subhas citadel as wife, disciple fight...

Friday 06 November, 2009

It’s a battle for legacy between the wife and protégé of late Subhas Chakraborty as Belgachhia East goes to polls on November 7.
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Chidambaram asks Buddha to 'ensure law and order'

Thursday 05 November, 2009

Centre has asked the West Bengal Govt to strictly ensure law and order whatever be the provocation for the political violence.
The B-School Girl

Thursday 05 November, 2009

Preity Zinta is leaving Bollywood for B-school. “Yes, I’m going to the Harvard Business School to study a short executive course in negotiating and deal-making,” she says.
Cocktail Class

Thursday 05 November, 2009

In the introduction to his book on cocktails, aptly titled Happy Hours, Bhaichand Patel, 73, a flamboyant connoisseur of liqueurs and liquor...
Wonder Drapes

Thursday 05 November, 2009

Back in the 1980s, when British designer Zandra Rhodes visited India to judge the Miss India contest...
Viva Kolkata

Thursday 05 November, 2009

With a pruned budget, the Kolkata Film Festival will be devoid of “excesses” this year (read lacklustre parties in five-star hotels) but it still has enough going for it to draw Kolkata film lovers.
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Style Station

Thursday 05 November, 2009

At one look, Kaji is nearly like your dream-room come true. Soft lighting, guitars, blow-ups of Marilyn Monroe and Brando’s Don Corleone...
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