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READ MORE Related News Nadia: BJP delegation team led by party’s National General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya and leader Mukul Roy visit the victims who were hospitalised after allegedly consuming spurious liquor, in Nadia. (Source: PTI Photo) The Trinamool Congress and BJP sent delegations to visit Shantipur area of Nadia on Friday, two days after the hooch tragedy that has claimed 12 lives so far. While the BJP accused the ruling party of earning large sums of money from the sale of spurious alcohol, the Trinamool asked local authorities and police to work together to curb the menace. The visits coincided with the police making another arrest in the case, said sources. The BJP delegation, led by party national secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya and Mukul Roy , met the victims’ families and visited the local hospital. “BJP has banned the sale of liquor in the states where it rules. Why can’t the TMC government also ban the sale of l...

READ MORE Related News West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee (Source: File Photo) Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said her government is pro-farmer and it has already tripled the farmers’ income in the state. Addressing a public meeting in Kalna in East Burdwan district, Mamata said, “The Centre is now talking of doubling farmers’ income. We have already tripled it. We have set up Krishak Bazaar, Karma Tirthas as well. We do not acquire land forcibly. We are pro-farmers… We have asked cooperative banks to give more loans to farmers.” The chief minister’s comments came after the peasants’ wing of the CPM organised a long march. On Wednesday, members of All India Krishak Sabha, took out a march from Singur to Kolkata demanding waiver of farmers’ loans and creating jobs for their family members. The long march concluded on Thursday which had witnessed a gathering of about 15,000 people. “Earlier, 65,000...

READ MORE Top News Protests were flagged under Calcutta University in north Kolkata. ( Source: File Photo) College students in Kolkata on Friday took to the roads over their demand for relaxation of norms mandating 65 per cent minimum attendance to write their examinations. In what was the latest in a series of protests over the last week, police sources said around 400 students of Heramba Chandra College blocked traffic movement at Golpark in south Kolkata. “On the first day, they gheroed the teachers’ room. The next day, they stopped students who were eligible (to write the exam) from filling their forms. Now, they are saying they will not allow any student to take the examination. We have been asked to follow norms strictly. That doesn’t mean we are not sympathetic towards students. We have considered time and again,” said Nabanita Chakraborty, a teacher at Heramba Chandra College. Explained Uphill task for govt: College ...

READ MORE Top News (From left) Anant Goenka, Executive Director of Indian Express Group, Srikant RP, Editor of Express Computer, Manish Prakash, MD Healthcare, Education and Public Sector, Microsoft India, Kamal Nath, CEO, Sify Technologies and Deepak Maheshwari, Government Relation leader APAC Symantec at the Idea Exchange in Kolkata on Friday. (Photo by Subham Dutta) An e-commerce model for toto services, a hackathon and Python coding classes in schools — these were among the ideas discussed at the Emerging Tech Conclave in Kolkata, organised by The Indian Express Group, on Friday. Speaking at the event, HIDCO Chairman and Additional Chief Secretary of the state IT and Electronics department Debasish Sen said, “We are having a hackathon which we call Bengalathon. One of the problems that we have given to the participants to solve… is totos on call. Can we not have an e-marketplace for totos? One can say it is very easy but it is not so ...

READ MORE Top News Sify Technologies is setting up a new data centre in Kolkata (Representational) Information and Communications Technology (ICT) service major Sify Technologies is setting up a new data centre in Kolkata and the facility is expected to be inaugurated by February next year. “We are setting up a near 50,000 sq ft data centre in Kolkata for customers in the eastern region, for that matter any other customers can also subscribe to this service. The data centre will be inaugurated at Rajarhat by February, 2019,” Sify Technologies CEO Kamal Nath said on the first day of “Emerging Tech Conclave”. “We are also working with some of the state government organisations to move them to adopt cloud-based services,” Nath said. During the Idea Exchange session, moderated by The Indian Express Pvt Ltd executive director Anant Goenka, Nath said West Bengal had the strong mindset to implement all emerging digital services...

READ MORE A builder was arrested in connection with land fraud on Friday. The accused had developed residential colony on a farmer’s land, which he had taken on rent few years ago in Simrol. The accused has been handed over to Simrol police station where he is being questioned further. He used to take lands of farmers on lease after inking agreements. He had developed colony named Dream Park on land taken on lease in Ghosikheda under Simrol police station jurisdiction a year back. He had sold a plot to Kailash Patel in September 2013 for Rs 4 lakh. He had promised to develop the colony in three years but he did not do it. As a result, Patel lodged a complaint with police. Since then, search was on for him. Additional Superintendent of Police (crime) Amarendra Singh said accused Sameer alias Sharif Multani of Navlakha, who was on the run for about 18 months in connection with land fraud in Simrol, had come to meet a relative in Manikbagh. Crime branch team arrested him from near Ma...

READ MORE In order to build confidence and raise awareness, the girl students were informed about good touch and bad touch. They were also informed about importance of hygiene.  They received the tips at a health, hygiene and safety awareness camp organised by Airport Authority of India for girl students at Government Girls Higher Secondary School in Musakhedi on Friday. The camp was organised under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative by AAI, where inner wears were distributed to students free of cost by Aryama Sanyal, director Devi Ahilyabai Holkar airport, Indore. Addressing students, she called upon them to have big objectives in life and observe discipline in studies. Gynaecologist Dr Mamta from CHL Hospital shed light on importance of using sanitary pads. Dr Mamata also briefed them about understanding good touch and bad touch. Later, she met each student in classroom-turned-chamber individually to listen to their problems. Earlier, Channi Jain from NGO Mrityunjai...

READ MORE The MHB Colony police have arrested a 53-year-old man for killing his 80-year-old mother. The 53-year-old Borivli resident after slitting his mother’s throat he sat with her body for hours before turning himself into the police. According to Mid-Day, the accused have been identified as Yogesh Ramakant Shenoy (53). The incident took place around 2 am on Thursday, after a quarrel between Yogesh Shenoy and his mother erupted. A police official told the leading, “At the time of going to bed, Yogesh tried to kill his mother by giving her an overdose of sleeping pills. But, after a few hours, he was shocked to see his mother awake. So he tried to smother her with a pillow but this attempt failed too.” Yogesh Shenoy’s mother was a blood pressure and spondylosis patient. The two of them lived together in a chawl in Borivli. Shenoy is estranged from his wife, and his father and brother passed away a few years ago. When Lalita survived both these attempts, S...

READ MORE In what it can be called as medical negligence, doctors conducted a Caesarean section surgery after which left a surgical mop inside female’s stomach. According to Mid-Day, the doctors from Vasai Virar City Municipal Corporation hospital who conducted a Caesarean section surgery on Renu Vishwakarma left a surgical mop inside her stomach. This caused her a severe stomach infection and she was immediately admitted into Nair hospital’s ICU where she is still undergoing treatment. Due to which she hadn’t yet held her baby even once since last month. Renu’s husband Ramanujan Vishwakarma told the leading daily, “Her condition was extremely serious and she had developed such infection in her stomach that it had swollen completely. Doctors conducted several tests but couldn’t find the reason for her deteriorating health condition. A CT scan later showed a mop in her stomach which was immediately removed through a surgery.” The incident to...

READ MORE As the temperature falls and the festivity business slows down, it is the perfect time for people to hang out with family and friends. While it might seem normal to go the theatre and malls, one lacks refreshing themselves and bonding with family members at these hangouts. traveling Planning a picnic to the same resorts seems dull to most residents, who seek adventure and exploring places. Unravelling treasures of nature that offer excitement, adventures and peace near Indore, we bring you a complete guide in the series of Quick Getaways with pictures, advisory and more. To enjoy a day with college friends or family members, ‘Narmada-Gambhir Link’ is the perfect quick getaway for this weekend. It is still developing facilities for visitors, but is already equipped with adventures, comfort and natural beauty. The meeting spot of rivers comes with a drive through forests and villages. Without waiting for the place to become a planned spot, adventure-seekers are spend...

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READ MORE Contrary to the general perception that paddy crops in Tiruvarur and Nagapattinam were spared of devastation in the cyclone Gaja, it has come to light at least 30% of the crops could be impacted. “Heavy wind followed by copious rain has affected the tip of the paddy. We have cultivated CR 1009-sub a long duration crop. The leaves are turning yellow and withering away,” said S. Ranganathan, general secretary, Cauvery Delta Farmers Association. Mr. Ranganathan, who met Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami in Manali in Nagapattinam district and visited the paddy fields along with Agriculture Department officials, said CO-51, a quite popular variety, also bore the brunt of the cyclone. “The paddy is in booting stage. The flowering and fruiting will begin after this. The officials felt that the impact will stunt the growth of the paddy and the yield will be reduced,” he told The Hindu , adding that farmers had already made a representation to the Chief Min...

READ MORE THURSDAY, Nov. 29, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Love your time in the local sauna? Your heart may love it, too. New research from sauna-loving Finland suggests that for people aged 50 and older, saunas may lower their odds of risk of dying from heart disease . Specifically, just 5 percent of Finns in the study who spent more than 45 minutes in a sauna each week died of heart disease over the 15-year study period, compared to 10 percent of those who spent less that 15 minutes a week in saunas, the researchers said. Of course, the study couldn’t prove cause-and-effect — it’s possible that sauna-loving folk have other heart-healthy habits that might explain the findings. Still, “there are several possible reasons why sauna use may decrease the risk of death due to cardiovascular disease ,” said study co-author Dr. Jari Laukkanen, head of cardiology at the University of Eastern Finland. His team published its findings Nov. 28 in the journal BMC Med...