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Govt to allow private stake in rural highways
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The state cabinet on Friday approved the formation of a Highway Development Corporation to improve rural infrastructure in Bengal.
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Bail for Chhetri, first in AMRI case
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iling cardiac specialist Mani Chhetri was granted bail in the AMRI fire case on Thursday. The 93-year-old is the only one to have been released.
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AC rake snag hits Metro services
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To quote railways minister Dinesh Trivedi, the "mother of all Metro systems in the country" is suffering from a serious ailment.
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IAS officers sent to CID custody
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The city metropolitan magistrate on Thursday remanded two IAS officers - arrested in connection with the iron ore scam - to CID custody till February 4.
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Nigerian 'kingpin' arrested in multi-crore online banking fraud
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Beware before clicking a mail sent by any unknown person. You could be a victim of "sphygmograph" - a hi-tech e-fraud - and within days fraudsters may empty your bank account.
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Greenply Industries record healthy growth in Q-3
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Greenply Industries Limited, a leading player in the country's plywood and laminate industry, has posted over 32 per cent jump in net sales to Rs. 418.10 crores during the third quarter of the current financial year
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Suspension threat drove teens to suicide, say parents
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The two Class-VIII students of Julien Day School, Ganganagar, who jumped off a terrace in a suicide pact on Wednesday evening were top-rankers and were awarded medals only hours before they tried to kill themselves.
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Opp, Cong contest minister’s tall claims over paddy procurement
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When the Opposition Left Front and Congress leaders are upping the ante against the state government over delay in paddy procurement, State food and supplies minister Jyotipriya Mullick today claimed that his department has procured about 50,000 metric ton more rice than the previous Left Front government.
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Iron ore scam: 12 files missing, says Bengal minister
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The West Bengal food and supplies minister, Mr Jyotipriya Mullick, today said that his department has ordered the state PWD to set up bio-metric locking systems in the office of West Bengal
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Govt eye on activities of union leaders
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Upping the ante against trade union activity among the West Bengal government's employees, the state labour minister, Mr Purnendu Bose, today fired another salvo, saying that the activities of the union leaders will be monitored during office hours to check whether
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Mukul hits back at ex-CM
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A day after the CPI-M held a rally in Midnapore, the Trinamul Congress today organised a mass rally to retaliate former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's allegations against the Mamata Banerjee government.
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Urdu to be second official language
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Ahead of the panchayat poll, the state government is likely to declare Urdu as the second official language in areas where 10 per cent of the population belong Muslim community.
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Citu warns govt against ban on unions
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Criticising labour minister Purnendu Bose's move to amend the West Bengal Services Rules and stop government employees from forming unions, the CPI-M's labour wing, Citu, today warned the government of dire consequences if the ban comes into effect.
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CID custody for tainted IAS officers
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Two arrested IAS officers of the state cadre were remanded in Criminal Investigation Department's (CID) custody till 4 February after being produced before the chief metropolitan magistrate (CMM) of Bankshall Court today.
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Bus conductors beware!
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The state transport department will take drastic action against bus conductors who do not collect actual fares or give tickets to the passengers.
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Solid waste disposal project suspended in Durgapur
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The first plant set up in South Bengal to deal with municipal solid waste disposal suspended operation yesterday evening for lack of rubbish. The sudden shut down has put the Durgapur Municipal Corporation (DMC) in a tight spot, as the civic body doesn't have anywhere else to send its waste.
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Hasina not to attend CU convocation?
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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is unlikely to attend the convocation of Calcutta University (CU), Chancellor and Governor MK Narayanan said today.
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Coal price revision to hike power cost
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Power utilities in the state anticipate the cost of electricity generation to shoot up at least by 20 paisa per unit, thanks to the coal price revision announced by Coal India Ltd
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Dream road, hidden from city
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How many times have you fretted over the endless traffic jams and the horrible stink as you move from Howrah station towards Kolkata via the Howrah bridge
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Farmer commits suicide in Burdwan
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A 45-year-old sharecropper killed himself in a Burdwan village, taking the toll of farmer suicides in the district to five.
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Unions protest Mamata's move to ban strikes
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State government employees affiliated to various unions shouted slogans against the Bengal administration's move to curb trade union rights
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Buddha hits out at Mamata govt
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Former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today came down heavily on the Mamata Banerjee-government accusing it of moving without any direction and failing to add even a single new industrial venture to what his government had done.
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IAS officers held on graft charges
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In an unprecedented development, two senior IAS officers of the West Bengal cadre were arrested today on graft charges in connection with an iron ore export scam that led to a loss of Rs 139 crore to the state exchequer.
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Jaipur redux: Taslima book release cancelled at Book Fair
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In a throwback to the Salman Rushdie row at the Jaipur Literary Festival, the official release of the seventh part of controversial author Taslima Nasreen's autobiography, Nirvasan (Exile) at the Kolkata Book Fair
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Falak reruns in Burdwan, Bangalore
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In virtual reruns of the Falak saga, a seven-month-old baby girl was found abandoned in an Express train in Burdwan in West Bengal while a six-day-old infant boy was dumped in an open carton box in Bangalore. Both the babies have been admitted to hospitals.
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