Новости за 16.10.2015

Three persons died and another suffered serious injuries when a lorry rammed into a stationary DCM truck near APPA junction on the Outer Ring Road (ORR) in the early hours of Thursday.

Eyeing the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections expected to be held in the next few months, the Telangana government has decided to collect Rs 101 nominal property tax from owners who have been paying Rs 1,200 as annual property tax.

A late-night ice-cream party by a few software engineers of IBM ended in a tragedy after one of the female employees died in a road accident after their car rammed into a road divider near Biodiversity Park, Raidurgam, in the wee hours of Thursday.

Automated teller machines (ATMs), which have been slowly taking over the job of the cash teller over the last three decades, are now replacing another bank position - that of a credit officer for small loans.

Foods giant Nestle that is in the process of reinstating the image of its tainted noodles brand Maggi could take a cue from peer Cadbury, which too was in a similar situation a few years ago when worms were found in its chocolates.

Venture Capital (VC) investments have hit an all-time high this year with transactions worth $1.44 billion in 323 closed deals from January to September.

The weather forecast of a dry spell during Durga Puja has cheered up everybody but the news of a dry spell of a different kind has left Kolkatans ... er ... high and dry.

A puja in Batanagar has applied for record load this Durga Puja, overshadowing fancy pujas in Kolkata, including Maddox Square, Ekdalia Evergreen, College Square and others that are traditionally famous for their elaborating lighting.

There isn’t a single Bollywood movie release this Friday. But for the first time in Tollywood, jostling for space at the box office are seven Bengali movies (‘Rajkahini’, ‘Byomkesh Bakshi’, ‘Cross Connection 2’, ‘Shudhu Tomari Jonnyo’, ‘Katmundu’, ‘Antimyatra’ and ‘Chander Gaye Chand’).

The city of joy is also a city with a heart. And what better occasion than Bengal’s biggest festival Durga puja to show that the city cares for the have-nots.

Metro Railway will deploy a commando unit and three women squads for security during the four days of the Pujas this year.

Deshapriya Park puja, which has been tom-tomming its ‘world’s tallest Durga idol’ and the biggest pandal ever built in Kolkata, is having problems in getting permission.

A day in to the murder of three-and-a-half year old Preeti Naskar, whose dead body was found at the flat of her uncle at Mahisgote in Newtown on Wednesday, the investigators are still trying to piece together disconnected clues in the hope they will come find a strong motive behind the murder.

Calcutta high court, on Thursday, directed Shree Venkatesh Films Pvt Ltd (SVF) to vacate the 69,000 square feet portion that it occupies at P-51, Hyde Road Extension by November 16 and hand it over to Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT).

Reckless driving in the Kolkata airport’s operational area led to a needless accident on Thursday morning that could cripple the victim for life.

Mamata Banerjee during a meeting at Nabanna on Thursday asked the top cops to check all cases of extortion, as the traders complained that the trucks carrying essentials to the markets were forced to pay heft sums.

The Kalighat police on Thursday caught a KMC assessor collector, his brother and two others red-handed, as they assembled on Madan Pal Avenue in Bhowanipur, reportedly planning to rob a senior citizen’s home in Tollygunge.

The Star Cruises authority have agreed to show the video footage of the ill-fated night when Raj Kumar Agarwal was suspected to have gone overboard.

Like in the past, The Times of India is organizing ‘The Times of India Sharad Parikrama’ on October 19, 20 and 21.

Villagers in West Midnapore’s Salboni, who gave up land for the Jindal steel plant project, vent their ire on Thursday over no industry coming up on the land they gave up back in 2007.

With HUDA not willing to transfer assets along with its sectors for maintenance, the MCG has decided to take up the issue with the state chief secretary to find a solution.

As the flyover count in Kolkata goes up, so does the body count. At least seven bikers have been killed in the last 30 days, two of them on the newly opened Parama flyover.

A gang of criminals, including a woman, from Mewat has been busted in a businessman kidnap case.The gang had kidnapped a Jamia Nagar-based businessman from Bahadurgarh after the woman lured him with a promise of marriage.

Five men have been booked for the alleged murder of a cowshed owner on Wednesday night.Two of the accused are Johnny and Moni, nephews of the deceased, and the third one a friend of theirs, Ankur.

The MCG spent Rs 87 lakh on a CNG crematorium in Nathupur, which has not been used even once in the past one year, and it continues to spend Rs 32,000 each month on the CNG, an RTI reply has revealed.