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3 suspended Midnapore medical college doctors reinstated
Trending Midnapore Medical College and Hospital Midnapore: The suspension of three doctors of Midnapore Medical College and Hospital was revoked on Friday.
CM to open Birla paint factory tomorrow
Kharagpur: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee is likely to inaugurate Birla Opus paint factory at Vidyasagar Industrial Park in Kharagpur on Thursday, said sources. The factory is built on approximately 86 acres of land next to the national highway in Kharagpur block 2, and investment of around Rs 1,500 crore has been made for it.Preparations for the inauguration by the CM have already started. On Tuesday afternoon, DM Khurshid Ali Qadri and SP Dhritiman Sarkar visited the site.
Centres with heaters, exam in jumbo corridors: Madhyamik signals start of board season
News City News kolkata News Centres with heaters, exam in jumbo corridors: Madhyamik signals start of board season Trending Siliguri/Kharagpur: From the use of heaters at high-altitude schools in Sukhiapokhri and Maneybhanjan in Darjeeling to the use of special vehicles to ferry examinees through elephant corridors and the use of boats in the remote areas of South 24 Parganas, multiple measures were adopted across the state to facilitate Madhyamik examinees for their first board exam paper on...
MMCH on boil after suspension letter for 5 jr docs
Midnapore/Kolkata: A series of protests, including the gherao of administrators of Midnapore Medical College and Hospital (MMCH), happened on the campus on Saturday after seven postgraduate trainees received official suspension orders. Two members of the State Level Grievance Redressal Committee (SLGRC) also visited the medical college and appealed to the govt to revoke the suspension of the junior doctors.
MMCH jr docs call off total cease-work
Midnapore/Kolkata: Services were normal at Midnapore Medical College & Hospital (MMCH) on Friday as the junior doctors decided to go for a partial cease-work and would attend to admitted patients. On Thursday night, they had announced a total cease-work from Friday 8 am, in protest against the suspension of 12 doctors following the death of a woman after C-section delivery. Those not on duty would join the sit-in demonstration, the junior doctors said.
1 mom improves but loses child, 3 others still critical
Trending Midnapore/Kolkata: Rekha Sau, one of the five new mothers, who developed complications post-C-section delivery at Midnapore Medical College & Hospital (MMCH), started showing signs of improvement but her newborn died on Thursday morning. Sau (24) was among the five women, whose condition turned critical after childbirth at MMCH on Jan 8. Mamoni Ruidas died shortly. Of the rest, Sau is being treated at the Midnapore hospital's HDU, while the more-critical other three are at SSKM Hospital.
Kidney, liver damage in 3 new moms given faulty drip | India News - Times of India Original
News India News Kidney, liver damage in 3 new moms given faulty drip Trending KOLKATA: Days after a new mother died at Kolkata's Midnapore Medical College (MMC) allegedly after she was administered expired Ringer's lactate saline, three women whose condition deteriorated along with her were found to have acute kidney injury and required dialysis. These women were also administered the saline after C-section delivery at the hospital. Two are on ventilation, and the third is in the ICU.
TMC outdoes BJP temple run on Ram Navami
KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress rolled out Ram Navami processions with gusto in Bengal on Wednesday, appearing to take BJP by surprise a day after CM Mamata Banerjee publicly sounded a warning about the saffron party’s alleged ploy to “engineer riots” on the sidelines of the celebration.
TMC outdoes BJP temple run on Ram Navami | India News - Times of India
KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress rolled out Ram Navami processions with gusto in Bengal on Wednesday, appearing to take BJP by surprise a day after CM Mamata Banerjee publicly sounded a warning about the saffron party’s alleged ploy to “engineer riots” on the sidelines of the celebration.
23 convicted for death of 24 cops in 2010 WB Reds attack
West Midnapore: Fourteen years after Bengal saw its worst Maoist attack, West Midnapore district court on Tuesday convicted all 23 accused for the Feb 15, 2010 ambush at Silsa camp of Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) that left 24 jawans dead. Five most-wanted Maoists guerrillas had also been killed in counter-firing by the forces. The trial had started against 24 people, but prime accused and CPI (Maoist) leader Sudip Chongdar died during the proceedings.
2 dead in car crash were varsity profs
Ghosh, a resident of Konnagar, Hoo ghly, belonged to the microbiology department, while Roy was from the environmental science department and her home was in Sodepur, North 24-Parganas. The car driver, Biswajit Das (31), who was from Uttarpara, too, died in the accident. Ghosh had purchased the car in 2021 to travel to the university from her home, as train services were suspended during the pandemic.
Deceased IIT intern had heart ailment: Kin
KHARAGPUR: The chemistry intern at IIT Kharagpur, Suriya Deepan G S (22), who died at the institute hospital after falling ill in his hostel room early on Thursday, had a heart ailment and was under medication for high blood pressure and abnormal heart rhythm, his family members told police on Friday. A preliminary post-mortem ruled out any foul play and the family, too, did not lodge any police complaint.
Mig-29 additional fuel tank gets dislodged from aircraft during routine training, falls inside Goaltore forest; none hurt
GOALTORE/KOLKATA: A 15-foot-long steel fuel tank of a Mig-29 fighter jet flying above West Midnapore in Bengal sky got dislodged from the aircraft and fell in a forest at Goaltore closest to Kalaikunda air force station on Monday afternoon. Villagers living near Dhamocha forest under Goaltore police station area heard the noise of something heavy falling around at 1.30pm and called police, who in turn alerted the India Air Force.
Rs 2.6 crore highest offer on Day I of placement at IIT-Kharagpur
KHARAGPUR: The very first day of campus interview at IIT-Kharagpur ended with students bagging 760 placement offers, 16 of them international ones, the highest package being Rs 2.6 crore per annum. Thirty-four companies, including Apple, Airbus, Alphagrep, Capital One, EXL Services, Google, Graviton, Microsoft, Rubrik and Square Point, participated in the placement process.
Student's death: IIT Kharagpur dean quits after stir, director falls ill | India News - Times of India
KHARAGPUR/KOLKATA: The dean of student affairs at IIT Kharagpur has resigned following agitation by students over the the institute's "lackadaisical response" to the death of a third-year mechanical engineering student and its "lack of empathy" towards the family. While Dhrubajyoti Sen resigned on October 19, the students were informed about this on Friday during an open house convened by director V K Tiwari.
West Bengal: Teen vaccinated twice in a day
MIDNAPORE: The West Midnapore health officials on Tuesday started probe after a Class-IX student was given two doses of vaccine in quick succession in a camp at Debra's Aloke Kendra Higher Secondary school on Monday. The student underwent a medical examination at a Debra hospital and is doing well, health officials said. According to the student Umesh Parh, he had gone to the school vaccination camp on Monday. "There were two counters.
kharagpur: West Bengal: 9 detained for tying crackers to dog’s legs | Kolkata News - Times of India
KHARAGPUR: Nine people have been detained for questioning in Kharagpur for allegedly tying firecrackers to a street dog’s feet and lighting them up, resulting in the animal losing a part of its limb and suffering severe burn injuries on its tail on Wednesday night. The three-year-old animal was rescued by locals. It has been operated upon and is now out of danger. The dog is being treated by an animal rights organization. The incident was reported from the Kharida Gurdwara area of Kharagpur town.
Cyclone Yaas: Three dead in districts, West Bengal govt evacuates 11 lakh
Breach of embankment at Sandeshkhali KOLKATA: Three deaths — two in Hooghly and one in Asansol — were reported in Bengal on Tuesday in weather-related events, even as the state government evacuated 11 lakh people from south Bengal’s coastal areas, a day before Cyclone Yaas is expected to make landfall in Odisha.
IIT-Kharagpur professor suspended for abusing SC/ST students | India News - Times of India
KHARAGPUR: IIT Kharagpur has suspended a professor from the department of humanities and social sciences who was caught on video allegedly abusing Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes ( SC/ST ) students during an online class. The video that went viral and led to a showcause notice being slapped on the institute by the National Commission for Scheduled Caste (NCSC) has left the institute authorities red faced. “A complaint had been filed at IIT Kharagpur against the professor’s behaviour.
NIA nabs TMC leader Mahato in 12-year-old case
© Provided by The Times of India LALGARH/KOLKATA: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested Trinamool Congress state secretary and former Maoist-backed Lalgarh activist Chhatradhar Mahato early on Sunday for allegedly getting armed tribals to hold a trainload of Rajdhani Express passengers and crew hostage at Jhargram in Bengal's West Midnapore 12 years ago.
Kolkata cop on duty at Writers’ found dead with gunshot wound
Biswajit Karak posted at Gate 6 of Writers’ Buildings was injured after being struck by the bullet reportedly ...Read More KOLKATA/MIDNAPORE: A 36-year-old Kolkata Police constable was found dead with a gunshot injury at Writers’ Buildings on Friday. The bullet that struck the cop, Biswajit Karak, had reportedly been fired from his own service rifle.
Bengal districts on toes as Maha trains roll in
Malda/Kharagpur/Kolkata: A Shramik Special train from Panvel in Maharashtra chugged into Malda Town station on Thursday afternoon and disgorged 540 passengers during its brief halt before speeding off towards New Jalpaiguri. One of them, Ramjan Khan, ambled towards the kiosks where medical units were ready to conduct Covid tests on passengers.
Bengal: IIEST boy found dead at home in Midnapore, cops seek clues
Image used for representational purpose only MIDNAPORE: A second-year student of IIEST, Shibpur, died under questionable circumstances at his Midnapore town home on Saturday. Family members found Debdeep Metya, 20, lying without clothes and “unresponsive” on the floor of his room. He was rushed to Midnapore Medical College and Hospital (MMCH), where doctors declared him “dead on arrival”. The body has been sent for autopsy and police have registered an unnatural death case.
West Bengal: Cop fires for 4 hours from police lines terrace
JHARGRAM: A constable of Jhargram Police kept the rest of the force on tenterhooks throughout Thursday, firing indiscriminately in the air from the terrace of the police lines. It took more than seven hours and his family’s arrival from Purulia to coax him down. Jhargram SP Amit Kumar Bharat Rathore said constable Binod Kumar had been hallucinating while on the terrace. Kumar, from Purulia, had posted a warning on his Facebook page in the morning, saying “Be prepared”.
6 Maha labourers walked 250km before getting help
Midnapore/Kolkata: Six labourers from Maharashtra, engaged in road-laying in Bu-rdwan before lockdown was imposed, had to walk nearly 250km before help arrived. The three men and three women, along with their children, had come from Washim district to work at Burdwan’s Kannangara. The road contractor asked them to leave after CM Mamata Banerjee announced the state lockdown from the evening of March 23.
IIT-Kharagpur seminar on ‘idea of citizenship’ denied permission
Rights activist Ranjit Sur, who was one of the speakers, has alleged that the IIT authorities were trying to t...Read More KHARAGPUR: A “discussion” on “The Idea of Citizenship”, organised by a group of Indian Institute of Technology students on the Kharagpur campus, had to be called off on Wednesday after permission was withdrawn without citing any reason. The discussion was to take place at the IIT employees-run Staff Club but the club cancelled the booking and refunded the amount of Rs 1,000.
Out of jail after 10 years, top Naxal praises Mamata Banerjee for vikas
LALGARH (JHARGRAM): A day after his release, Chhatradhar Mahato - who rallied to Lalgarh with people mostly associated with Trinamool Congress on Sunday after completing a 10-year sentence - was all praise for chief minister Mamata Banerjee for her development work in the area. Though Mahato was non-committal about joining any party, TMC made it clear it is ready to accept the pro-Maoist leader, allowing a new political equation in Jangalmahal that could thwart BJP's recent upsurge in the region.
West Bengal: Newborn falls ill as eunuchs forcibly dance with him, dies
JHARGRAM: Three eunuchs were arrested after one of twin baby boys they forcibly danced with died soon after at Jhargram hospital on Friday. Villagers in Radhanagar — in Jhargram’s Silda — held them captive after the 50-day-old child, Suman, fell ill when the eunuchs were dancing with him. As Suman showed signs of collapsing, his father Chandan Khilar rushed the baby to Silda Hospital, which referred him to Jhargram Hospital, where the infant died.
West Bengal: Two cops held over missing Lalgarh arms
LALGARH: Two policemen, including a sub-inspector, have been arrested along with two villagers after 18 single-barrel guns went missing from the armoury of Lalgarh police station in Jhargram. The guns belonged to people with arms licences who had deposited them, said a senior officer. In most cases, the deposit is done under orders issued before elections, sources said. Many owners don’t collect their arms for months.
West Bengal: 18 lifers get early release from seven prisons
Kirti Chand Gope, Abhinath Majhi and Ganesh Sahish on Wednesday. MIDNAPORE/KOLKATA: The state prison directorate on Thursday released 18 prisoners who were facing life sentences. The release is the highest since the 2012 apex court order which said the trial courts or courts which have confirmed the sentences must give their nod before any such prisoner is released pre-maturely. Pre-mature release of convicts is decided by a state level-board, which includes police.
Kharagpur woman gives birth, names boy Bulbul
Sipra with her newborn son MIDNAPORE: A third-year geography student weathered a cyclone to give birth to a baby boy, Bulbul, named after the storm that made landfall on Saturday even as she brought him into the world. âSipraâs scheduled date was on Monday, but from Saturday evening around 5.20, her condition started to deteriorate,â said husband Ashoke Dolui, who works in a private company in Kharagpur.
Nine cops injured in mob attack in West Bengal
One of the damaged police vehicles MIDNAPORE: Nine policemen were injured and four police vehicles vandalized by a mob at Goaltore's Amlasuli area on Sunday when the cops had gone to remove a roadblock on the Humgarh-Garbeta state highway. The locals had staged the roadblock to protest against an accident on Saturday, in which a 22-year-old, Shibananda Dutta, was killed allegedly after being hit by a police vehicle at Piyasala. Five persons were arrested for the attack.
âDidi ke Boloâ data guides CM at meet
Midnapore: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee is no longer solely banking on the performance report submitted by the administration at administrative review meetings. She is now using her own database collated over the past few months based on public complaints reaching her as part of the âDidi ke Boloâ initiative. âI have a six-month database of what kind of problems people are facing in the district. I received 706 complaints from Paschim Midnapore about poor road maintenance.
NRC fuels war of words in Bengal and a rush for citizenship proof
TMC supporters taking out a procession against NRC in Kolkata on September 21. (Photo: ANI) MIDNAPORE/SILIGURI: Political rivals are crossing swords over the National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise even before it has been introduced in West Bengal, leading to a mad scramble among people to gather papers as citizenship proof.
BJP-TMC war over NRC hots up | India News - Times of India
MIDNAPORE/SILIGURI: Trinamool Congress and BJP leaders on Wednesday upped the NRC ante in Bengal with a spate of contradictory claims that fuelled the scramble for birth certificates and legacy documents at municipal offices in Kolkata and other parts of the state.
Cops save 2 families from cremating each otherâs fathers in West Bengal
MIDNAPORE: Minutes before a familyâs deceased father was placed in the electric furnace of a crematorium in Midnapore town, police arrived (on time, unlike in the movies) and spared another family grief as the body had been mistakenly swapped with their fatherâs. The mistaken identity came to light when the family of Goutam Ray (45) went to the Midnapore Medical College Hospital (MMCH) morgue to receive his body on Sunday evening. It was missing.
BJP man shot at in Gurap; 8 more beaten up in Keshpur
GURAP/KESHPUR: BJP workers and supporters were at the receiving end of renewed political violence since Friday evening with one suffering bullet wounds around midnight in Gurap, Hooghly, hours after party MP Locket Chatterjeeâs public meeting in the area. Earlier in the day, eight BJP supporters were allegedly beaten up when they went to collect Indira Awas Yojana application forms in Keshpur, West Midnapore.
IIT-Kharagpur student found dead on railway tracks
The spot on railway tracks where Chander Mohan Goswamiâs(inset) body was found lying Kharagpur: A fourth-year BTech student of IIT Kharagpur (IIT-Kgp) was found dead on the railway tracks, barely 500 metres outside the premiere tech schoolâs campus on Sunday night. The victim, Chander Mohan Goswami (22), was originally from Uttarakhand, but his family now lives in Delhi. He used to stay in Room No. 313 at IIT-Kgpâs Radhakrishnan Hall.
BJP worker found hanging from tree in west Midnapore
MIDNAPORE: A BJP worker was found hanging from a tree near his home at Naranga Dighi village at Pingla, West Midnapore, on Sunday morning. His family pointed fingers at Trinamool Congress, which denied any involvement. Pintu Manna (19) had joined BJP before the Lok Sabha polls and worked for the party. On Sunday, locals found his body hanging from a tamarind tree. His face was covered with a gamchha. Pintuâs family accused TMC workers of killing him.
Missing Adivasi found dead, row erupts at Pingla
PINGLA (WEST MIDNAPORE): The discovery of a 20-year-old Adivasiâs decomposed body in a godown at Birsinghpur in West Midnaporeâs Pingla early on Saturday set off a political tussle between BJP and Trinamool. Stench emanating from the locked godown forced residents to inform police, who reached the spot, broke open the door and recovered the decomposed body. Police detained the owner of the house located beside the godown.
Boys brawl at Kharagpur school amid chant claim
KHARAGPUR: A fracas between two Class XI boys of Kharagpur Southside High School on Saturday forced authorities to deploy a Rapid Action Force (RAF) contingent on campus from Monday morning after parents of one of the students protested against the alleged assault. It was also alleged that the victim was asked to chant âJai Sri Ramâ. The parents of the minority community boy demanded that the attacker be punished. They were joined by relatives and many other guardians.
28-year-old shot dead near IIT-Kharagpur campus
KHARAGPUR: A 28-year-old youth was shot dead by unidentified assailants outside the IIT Kharagpur campus on Tuesday afternoon. Sudipto Kar, a resident of Sabra Purba village under Bela police station of West Midnapore was riding a scooterette from Kharagpur towards Keshiary when he was shot close to a tea-stall and petrol pump on the IIT Bypass. No witnesses could be traced but two persons, who reached the spot a short while later, found Kar lying on the ground in a pool of blood.
Villager killed by mother of dead elephant calf in Jhargram district
MIDNAPORE: Villagersâ zeal to photograph a dead elephant calf on their mobiles led its mother to kill one of them in Jhargramâs Lalgarh on Friday. The incident happened around 10.30am at Pakhibandh on a bank of river Kasai. A herd of Dalma elephants had been roaming around the forest and sc-reaming since Thursday night. Villagers thought it wise not to venture out of their homes. One in the herd gave birth in the village adjoining Pakhibandh forest, but the calf died soon after.
At Vidyasagar birthplace, villagers shocked by vandalism in Kolkata
GHATAL (WB): Anguish and anger were writ large on the faces of the residents of Birsingha, the birthplace of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, as they staged a protest on Wednesday. They felt let down by Tuesdayâs vandalism on the Kolkata college campus that bears the name of the son of their soil, a key figure of the Bengal renaissance who went on to pioneer path-breaking social reforms.
Cyclone Fani: Lightning kills 10-year-old; 150 Midnapore homes damaged
The roof of a house in Midnapore Town blew away in the strong winds accompanying Cyclone Fani on Friday MIDNAPORE: A 10-year-old boy was struck by lightning when he disregarded warnings about the impending cyclone and went to play under a tree in West Midnaporeâs Goaltore on Friday. Bhairab Show was declared dead on arrival at Keyakole Hospital. Gusty winds blowing across Midnapore town, Kharagpur, Danton and Chandrakona damaged around 150 houses, rendering families homeless.
FB friendship draws Thai women to Bengal village | Kolkata News - Times of India
Chandrakona: Sign language and a translation app might be their only means of communication, but the friendship between two Thai women and a homemaker from West Midnaporeâs Chandrakona has suddenly become the talk of the town. Fruit orchard owner Pranom Pimub (53), whom Debjani Adhikary, befriended on Facebook four years ago, has been visiting her home at Chandrakonaâs Gosai Bazar, drawing curious neighbours every day.
This polls, wall graffiti takes on new characters: Chinese, Alchiki, Telugu - Times of India
Scripts of three languages — Chinese, Alchiki and Telugu — have made an appearance as wall graffiti for a general election for the first time in Bengal as politicians vie to get their message across in languages that voters are most comfortable with. Bengali and English and, in some zones, Urdu and Hindi have been the wall-writer’s preferred languages in the state.
Didi’s asking for votes in Chinese, Santhali & Telugu
Political graffiti in Chinese, Alchiki (Santhali script) and Telugu have now appeared in Tangra, Jhargram and Kharagpur respectively. , TNN | Apr 07, 2019, 11.05 AM IST KOLKATA/KHARAGPUR: Scripts of three languages — Chinese, Alchiki and Telugu — have made an appearance as wall graffiti for a general election for the first time in Bengal as politicians vie to get their message across in a language that voters are most comfortable with.
West Bengal: Villagers go ahead with hunting festival despite foresters’ pleas - Times of India
Sujay Khanra | TNN | Updated: Apr 5, 2019, 09:46 ISTThe carcass of a wild boar hunted during the festival MIDNAPORE: Wild boars, civet cats and rabbits were killed by villagers participating in the hunting festival in the Jamsole forest of West Midnapore on Thursday, despite forest officials’ best effort to dissuade them. This was the fifth day of the annual festival, which spans six weeks. This year, the festival started on March 5 and will go on till April 14.
2 IIT-Kharagpur students killed, 1 injured in highway crash - Times of India
KHARAGPUR: Two fifth-year M.Tech students at IIT-Kharagpur, who were on the verge of taking up plum jobs, were killed and another fourth-year M.Tech student was critically injured in a road accident around 15 km from campus early on Saturday. The three were riding a bike along the wrong flank of NH 60 when an unidentified vehicle hit them, police said. None was wearing a helmet.
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