Новости за 07.10.2015

I sat transfixed, watching the horror unfold.

Metro officials admit that Wednesday’s scare was a major incident since a power cable was involved and there was the possibility of an electrical fire.

The Times NIE Debate, presented by O P Jindal Global University in association with Calcutta Debating Circle, will be held on Friday at the Indian Museum Asutosh Birth Centenary Hall.

Srijit Mukherji’s Partition tale ‘Rajkahini’ is on its way to being remade in Hindi as ‘Lakir’. This film will mark the directorial debut of Srijit in Bollywood.

IIEST-Shibpur and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, are eying a tie-up for several education programmes, including a nuclear science MTech degree.

Truck driver Balaram Singh (40) was found murdered inside his vehicle on National Highway-2 on Wednesday.

Just before the biggest festival of Bengal, the industry morale of the state will get a big boost. The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the apex industry body, is set to host its national council meeting here on October 13.

More than a dozen rallies in the last one week threw life out of gear in the heart of the city, leaving helpless citizens to wonder if political parties could adopt alternative modes of protest.

In less than 36 hours after he assumes office, Alapan Bandopadhyay’s appointment as the interim State Election Commissioner is likely to be challenged in Calcutta high court.

Screen legend Dilip Kumar urged Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif to help defuse the Kargil crisis in 1999 at the behest of the then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a new book by a former Pakistan foreign minister has claimed.

On a day CBI arrested former Union minister Matang Sinh’s wife Monoranjana and businessman Shantanu Ghosh for their alleged role in the Saradha scam, CBI questioned actor and Trinamool MP Tapas Paul for over six hours.

Armed with green abir, Trinamool supporters converged on Rawdon Street on Wednesday hoping the new acting state election commissioner, Alapan Bandopadhyay, would undo the stay on counting and rule out re-poll in Salt Lake, Asansol and Bally civic bodies.

In 1915, the British conferred on Rabindranath Tagore their state honour of knighthood.

Kalyani University VC Rattan Lal Hangloo on Wednesday confirmed that he would stay on in his position, saying, “The issue of resignation is closed.”

Come Saturday, one of the most prominent addresses on Park Street — the 96-year-old Oxford Bookstore which is associated mostly with English literature — will go all out to celebrate Bengali literature.

In July, a couple of youngsters walked up to the office of Howrah police commissioner D P Singh to inform him that they had succeeded in tracing the person who had hacked into the website of the Howrah Police.

The eastern zonal bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday directed Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to raze all illegal structures on the banks of Adi Ganga nullah within two weeks.

The city is fast becoming the rally capital with roads having been choked by as many as 1,480 processions, 664 meetings and 247 demonstrations in 2014.

The BJP has set the ball rolling for the 2017 assembly elections. Former Bicholim MLA Rajesh Patnekar, who had quit BJP a few months before the March 2012 assembly elections to contest on the Congress ticket, returned to his old party on Wednesday.

Sand mining which has been banned for the last two years in the state is likely to start next month.

M V Rao, a contractor, emerged as lowest bidder for construction of the Canacona national highway bypass road, bridges across rivers Galgibaga, Talpona and a small bridge at Maxem.

About 300 residents of an upscale gated community behind Meenakshi Sundareshwara temple on Bannerghatta Road are agitated. The Bangalore Metropolitan Task Force (BMTF) and BBMP allegedly demolished the entrance of their complex without notifying residents. On Wednesday, residents of Classic Orchards alleged that BMTF didn't heed the stay order issued by a consumer court, instead, detained two residents who had asked for a written order.

About 300 residents of an upscale gated community behind Meenakshi Sundareshwara temple on Bannerghatta Road are agitated. The Bangalore Metropolitan Task Force (BMTF) and BBMP allegedly demolished the entrance of their complex without notifying residents. On Wednesday, residents of Classic Orchards alleged that BMTF didn't heed the stay order issued by a consumer court, instead, detained two residents who had asked for a written order.

At least Rs 495 crore of rural development and panchayat raj (RDPR) department's funds is stashed away in 101 bank accounts, opened allegedly using the name of one official, RDPR minister HK Patil said on Wednesday.

At least Rs 495 crore of rural development and panchayat raj (RDPR) department's funds is stashed away in 101 bank accounts, opened allegedly using the name of one official, RDPR minister HK Patil said on Wednesday.