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Gauge conversion
work
KOLKATA, NOV 23/—/
Eastern Railway has taken a
step further towards modernization to convert KatwaBalgona section of Howrah
Division of this Railway
from Narrow Gauge to Broad
Gauge. For gaug e conversion work the KatwaBalgona section will be
closed from December 1,
2014 and four pairs of
Katwa-Balgona locals presently plying on this Narrow
Gauge Section will remain
cancelled from December 1,
2014 till further advice.
(EOIC)
Bengal Guv to hold
addl charge of Bihar
KOLKATA, NOV 23/—/
West Beng al Gover nor
Keshari Nath Tripathi
will hold the additional
char ge of Bihar, the
President’s Secretariat
today said. Bihar Governor Dr D Y Patil completes his tenure on November 26. “The President of India has been
pleased to appoint Shri
Keshari Nath Tripathi,
Governor of West Bengal,
to discharge the functions of the Gover nor of
Bihar, in addition to his
own duties,” a communique from the Rashtrapati
Bhavan said. It said that
Tripathi would be in
charge of Bihar until
regular arrangements for
the office of the Governor
of that state is made.
(PTI)
Monday November 24, 2014
SER’s medical dept organises
President’s son criticizes
annual conf & CME prog Trinamool for taking CPM’s help
EOI CORRESPONDENT
KOLKATA, NOV 23/—/Indian Railway Medical Service Association (IRMSA) of
South Eastern Railway has
organized a two-day Annual
Conference and Continuing
Medical Education (CME)
Programme with the theme
“Prevention to intervention” at S. E. Railway Central Hospital, Garden Reach.
Dr. M. K. Budhalakoti,
Director General, Railway
Health Services, Railway
Board inaugurated the programme while Radhey
Shyam, General Manager, S.
E. Railway presided over
the function. Dr. Arabinda
Ray, Chief Medical Director,
South Easter n Railway, Dr.
A.P.Patnaik, Medical Director, S.E.Railway and other
esteemed doctors attended
the conference.
Dr. Budhalak oti while
inaugurating the programme said that doctors in
Indian Railways have been
providing quality health
service to the railway people.
Radhey Shyam spoke on
the importance of conducting this sort of medical programme so vital for human
survival and to build awareness on health care as a
whole through exchange of
views of expert doctors on
different diseases, their precautions and remedies.
EOI CORRESPONDENT
SILIGURI, NOV 23/-/
Taking a dig at Chief
Minister
Mamata
Banerjee’s statement
that Leftparties are not
‘untouchable’ for her,
Abhijit Mukherjee, Congress MP and son of
president
of
India
Pranab Mukherjee today
said that TMC is now try-
ing to take help from Left
parties to fight with oppositions.
He said that the chief
minister is fearing after
the continuous arrest of
her brigade member and
now planning to shake
hands with the Left parties.
Mukherjee today attended
the
party’s
‘Karmi
Sabha’
at
Patharghatta
near
Matigara along with five
other Congress MLAs
and former Siliguri
Mayor Gangorti Dutta.
He said Himul near
Siliguri has also been neglected by the state government and have failed
to maintain development. He assured that
the matter will be discussed with the state and
the central g over nment
for the all round development. He suggested the
TMC leaders and the
ministers to do their
properly without fooling
people so that they don’t’
have to be in CBI’s net
and admitted in the hospitals.
Ten congress leaders
were also felicitated today in the function.
Dr. M. K. Budhalakoti, DG, Rly Health Services, Rly
Board, along with Radhey Shyam, GM, SER lighting the
ceremonial lamp to inaugurate the 35th Annual Conference and Continuing Medical Education Programme at
the SER HQ on Saturday—EOI PIKS
The main objective of
holding this kind of conference and CME Programme
is to provide better treatment to the patients with
updated medical knowledge. The conference consists of orations, symposia,
workshop, panel discussion
etc. Physicians in different
fields took part in the seminar and delivered their lectures on the different medical subjects’ viz., CardioDiabetes, Metabolic Emergency in Oncology, Management of Malaria, Recent
Advance in diagnosis of
Cardiac Arrhythmia Acute
Coronary Syndrome - Challenges Ahead, Ebola Virus –
a new threat to the world.
Recent Advances in the
Management of Hepatitis B, Prevention of Acute Kidney Injury, Plasmapheresis
in Critical Illness, Renal
Transplantation & ABO
incompatibilities etc.
Dr.Ray narrated the
specialty treatments and
various medical services offered to railway men by the
S.E.R’s Central Hospital. He
also urged upon the experts
and delegate doctors to
have the benefits of the
medical conference for the
well being of mankind.
As many as 140 delegate
doctors from all over Indian
Railways and State Hospitals participated in the programme.
dist
RBU seminar held Nagaoan
admin orders
ragging inquiry
At the seminar held on the “Construction of the History of Bengali Literature”, seen
on the dais are Lakshmi Laha, Debkanya Sen, Barun Chakraborty and Alok Roy
—EOI PIKS
KOLKATA NOV 23/—/ A seminar to com- Sen, Barun Kumar Chakrabor ty, Gopa
memorate 150 t h anniversary of Acharya Dutta, Shibajipratim Basu, Alok Roy, Sujata
Dinesh Chandra Sen was organized at BT Mukhopadhyay, Himbanta Bandopadhyay,
road campus of Rabindra Bharati univer- Head Begali faculty Suranjan Midde, Consity. The notable among those present were venor Narayan Halder and others. The
Lakshmi Laha, secretary of Dinesh seminar was organised by Bengali faculty
Chandra Sen research society, Debkanya of RBU. (EOIC)
GUWAHATI, NOC 23/—/
Following instruction from
Assam Chief Minister
Tarun Gogoi, Nagaon district administration today
ordered an enquiry into the
alleged incident of ragging
at Barhampur Blind School.
“De puty Commissioner,
Nagaon, P Ashok Babu has
asked
ADC
Amitabh
Rajkhowa to probe the incident that took place at
Barhampur Blind School recently following directive
from the Chief Minister today,” an official release said.
The Deputy Commissioner said the parents of a
boy alleged that their son
had left the school after he
was subjected to ragging.
“The Deputy Commissioner
has
directed
ADC
R ajkhowa to investigate
into the incident and submit
a report within a week,” the
release said.
Babu has also asked the
Circle Officer to meet the
Principal of the blind
school to get first-hand information about the incident,
it added. (PTI)
Youth Injured in bear attack
GANGTOK, NOV 23/-/Wild bears create havoc in villag es across Sikkim
with the advent of the winter season
and reports of people getting attacked
and injured by them is common during the season.
In one of the first incident this
winter, 21-year old youth Vishal
Tamang from Khamdong-Thangsing in
East Sikkim was attacked by a wild
bear a day ago, injuring him critically.
He has sustained deep cuts in his face,
head and hand and is currently getting
treated at the STNM Hospital in
Gangtok.
Sources said Vishal was attacked
by the wild bear when he was working
near the forest area of his village. The
victim’s family informed the state forest department is supporting his treat-
ment and have been continuously taking updates on his improvement. Notably, this is not the first attack in the village this year.
Recently, two people were injured
in two separate bear attacks in the
area. Forest department personnel
have visited the site and efforts are on
to keep the wild bears away from populated areas. HS
ADGP (Law & Order) to probe youth assault
GUWAHATI, NOV 23/—/
T he Assam g overnment
has asked Additional Director General of Police
(Law and Order) R M
Singh to enquire into a incident of assault of a
youth by two others in the
state capital. “ADGP (law
and order) RM Singh will
enquire into the case of
assault of a youth by some
miscreants yesterday at
Sadilapur of Garigaon
area on the outskirts of
Guwahati city,” an official
release said. Singh will enquire into the case and
submit a report to the
Home and Political Department. When contacted, Guwahati Senior
Superintendent of Police
Anand Prakash Tiwari
told PTI that it was a fight
between three teenaged
youths of a locality over a
trivial issue. “Some antisocial elements tried to
give it a communal colour
as the two parties were
from different communities. However, police immediately took control of
the situation and it is
peaceful now,” he added.
Tiwari said citizen committees and village defence parties are working
in close tandem to restore
complete normalcy in the
area. Three youths have
been rounded up and they
are being interrogated, he
added.
Meanwhile,
Gauhati Medical College
and Hospital superintendent Ramen Talukdar said
the youth from Sipajhar
who sustained minor
bruises would be discharged today. (PTI)
Campaign ends for first phase of polls in J&K, J’khand
SRINAGAR/RANCHI, NOV 23/—/
Campaigning for the first phase of polling on Tuesday for 15 assembly seats in
Jammu and Kashmir and 13 Maoist-hit
constituencies in Jharkhand ended today, with BJP hoping to continue its
winning streak in the multi-cornered
contests riding on the ‘Modi wave’. 123
candidates are in the fray in the first leg
of the five-stage election in Jammu and
Kashmir, where Chief Minister Omar
Abdullah is leading the ruling National
Conference against main opposition
PDP, BJP and Congress, with which the
NC had snapped ties ahead of polls. The
fate of 199 candidates will be decided
in this phase in Jharkhand which has
an 81-member Assembly with ruling
JMM, Congress-RJD combine, BJPAJSU, JVM-P, RJD, JD(U), CPI, CPM,
CPI(ML-Liberation) and other regional
parties in the contest.
The 15 J-K assembly segments going to polls on November 25 are spread
across seven districts of Bandipora and
Ganderbal in Kashmir Valley, Kargil
and Leh of Ladakh region and Kishtwar,
Doda and Ramban of Jammu region.
While eight seats were held by National
Conference, PDP had one and the Congress had six.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP
chief Amit Shah and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh were among the star
campaigners for BJP in Jammu and
Kashmir where the first phase of elections has been by and large peaceful.
Omar has voiced confidence of retaining power, noting that militancy is “at
the lowest” in last six years and his government has taken various pro-development initiatives in its tenure.
Students participate in a drawing competition organised by Marwari Yuva Manch, Siliguri.
Sikkim Veterans
Football Tourney begins
GANGTOK, NOV 23/-/
Sikkim Veterans Football
Tournament
2014
organised by Dzongri
Sporting Club today kick
started at the Palzor Stadium in Gangtok. The
tournament is being
organised in memory of
late Pintsho Lepcha, late
Nim Tshering Lepcha
and
late
Gyaltshen
Lepcha. For mer mana ging director of STCS SG
Palzor, present at the stadium as the chief guest,
inaugurated the tournament.
The first match of the
tournament was played
between Ranka Veterans
and Boys Club Veterans.
The match was won by
the Boys Club Vaterans
by 2-1. The first match on
Monday will be played be-
tween Dz ongri Veter ans
and Namchi Veterans,
while the second match
will be payed between
Namthang Veterans and
Ajambari Ekadasi Veterans.
Dzongri
Sporting
Club president Pintso
Namgyal Bhutia informed that a total of 23
teams are taking part in
the tournament, including
teams
from
Darjeeling,
Pedong,
Kalimpong, Siliguri and
Sikkim.
“The aim of the tournament is to bring the
veterans footballers back
to the field to inspire the
younger generation to
take up to sport,” he
added. The final match of
the tournament will be
played on December 6. HS
Panic grips NJP after IOC fire scare
SILIGURI, NOV 23/-/ A fire on a dry ground adjacent to
an Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) depot located close to New
Jalpaiguri Platform this morning created panic in the area.
The closeness to the oil depot increased tension among the
people and started to vacate the area. However, two fire engines based in NJP responded to the fire call and manage
to take control of the situation. It took them around an hour
the put out the fire. Fire brigade officials believed the fire
could have spread due to a lit cigarette bud. Due to the dry
vegetation in the ground the fire spread quickly, but the
prompt response from the fire department averted a major
accident. No one was said to be injured in the fire. HS
Man arrested with drugs
SILIGURI, NOV 23/-/ New Jalpaiguri Platform outpost
police on Sunday arrested a youth in possession of large
quantity of hashish or charas from South Colony area. The
police have identified the arrested person as Prakash Shah
from Bulbulchandi in Malda District. Police sources said
the charas seized from Shah is worth around Rs.2lakh. Acting on a tip-off the NJP outpost personnel conducted a secret operation and arrested the accused from South Colony
area. Upon checking his belongings they found the drugs
hidden in his bag. Preliminary interrogation revealed that
Shah had come from Malda to sell the drugs. He was presented before the Jalpaiguri District Court and sent to additional police remand. HS
No regrets over
debacle in general
elections, says Nitish Meghalaya Assembly building
State Notes
SUPAUL, NOV 23/—/Asserting that he had given primacy to principle over coalition government while severing alliance with the BJP
last year, former Bihar chief
minister Nitish Kumar today
said that he has no regrets
over debacle in the general
elections. “Chunav mein
harne ka koi gam nahin hai
(I have no regrets over debacle in general elections,” he
told JD(U) workers at a public meeting in Bihar’s Supaul
district. Kumar said that he
cared two hoots about consequence for breaking alliance
with the BJP as for him principles mattered more than
running a coalition government with the saffron party
in Bihar. The senior JD(U)
leader, undertaking Sampark
Yatra since November 13 to
rejuvenate party workers
ahead of the Assembly polls
due next year, gave a backhanded compliment to the
BJP-led NDA for storming to
power at the Centre and said
that the saffron party succeeded in its mission to rule
the country by luring the
people to vote for it on promises that have not been translated into action till now.
“The BJP has succeeded in
attaining power at the Centre
by making tall claims and
promises that it has not fulfilled so far,” Kumar, who quit
the Chief Minister’s post
owning moral responsibility
for the JD(U)’s debacle in the
general elections, said. (PTI)
will come up in new Shillong
SHILLONG, NOV 23/—/A new Meghalaya Assembly
building will come up in New Shillong Township and
80 acres of land has been identified for the purpose,
Speaker Abu Taher Mondal has said. “We have finalised the land for the construction of the new Assembly building at the New Shillong Township at a meeting of a High Power Committee of the Meghalaya Assembly on Friday,” Mondal said yesterday. “Now, we’ll
start the process of its execution in different stages
until the new Assembly building gets its desired shape
within a specific time,” he said. Narrating how different proposals for a new building did not materialise
since 2004, the Speaker said “this time we hope our decision will fructify since as this is a government land
and all new institutional and organisational buildings are coming up in the area.” He said Chief Minister Mukul Sangma had agreed to arrange the fund required for the project. According to the Speaker, the
functioning of the Assembly is badly hit as the administrative headquarter in Police Bazaar area is not sufficient, while the chamber is at another location in
Rilbong. The old British era Assembly building in the
capital was badly damaged in a fire in 2001 and parts
of the remaining building houses only the Assembly
secretariat. Other functions are held in different
places.
Old man stung to
death by bees
AIZAWL, NOV 23/-/An 80-year-old man died after he
was stung by a swarm of bees in a forest near
Khawzawl village in Mizoram, police officials said today. The victim, identified as Lalzuia was attacked by
the bees when he was clearing an area in the jungle for
‘jhum’ cultivation on Friday, they said. Writhing in
pain Lalzuia could manage to reach the main road by
crawling where he was found by some passers-by. He
was taken to Khawzawl rural hospital where he succumbed to his injuries, they said. (PTI)
CHANGE OF NAME
I, MALA AGARWAL, W/o- Shiv
Kumar Mittal, R/o- 1, Brojo
Kumar Sett Lane, 2nd Floor,
Mandalia House, Jorabagan,
Kolkata-700 006, shall henceforth be known as MALA
MITTAL vide an Affidavit sworn
before ACMM, 2nd Court, Calcutta on 17/11/2014. MALA
AGARWAL & MALA MITTAL is
one and the same identical
person.
CHANGE OF NAME
I, PRIYANKA AGARWAL, D/ oShiv Kumar Mittal, R/o- 1, Brojo
Kumar Sett Lane, 2nd Floor,
Mandalia House, Jorabagan,
Kolkata-700 006, shall henceforth be known as PRIYANKA
MITTAL vide an Affidavit sworn
beforeACMM, 2nd Court, Calcutta
on
17/11/2014.
PRIYANKA AGARWAL &
PRIYANKA MITTAL is one and
the same identical person.
CHANGE OF NAME
I, SHIV KUMAR AGARWAL, S/
o-Sreeram Agarwal, R/o- 1,
Brojo Kumar Sett Lane, 2nd
Floor,
Mandalia
House,
Jorabagan, Kolkata-700 006,
shall henceforth be known as
SHIV KUMAR MITTAL vide an
Affidavit sworn before ACMM,
2nd Court, Calcutta on 17/11/
2014.
SHIV
KUMAR
AGARWAL & SHIV KUMAR
MITTAL is one and the same
identical person.
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