4 minors among 13 women rescued KOLKATA: As many as 13 women including four minor girls were rescued C i t y from a hotel at Mahishadal in East Midnapore district on Monday by a team of www.morningindia.in CID officers. Owner of the hotel Khadim Seikh and its manager have been Kolkata, Tuesday arrested on charges of trafficking by the Women Grievance Cell of the CID led 03 by its Officer in Charge Sarbari Bhattacharya. This is the third time that CID 25 August 2015 officials raided this hotel. KMC alert on Foreign training for dengue WBCS officers danger Mamata opens up the opportunity for state executives, By Our Correspondent which has so far been a preserve for IAS officers By Gargee Acharyya The Chief Minister has now officially their seniority, qualifications and ACRs. KOLKATA, Aug 24: Dengue approved the programme. The government would spend Rs 2.5 lakh fear revisits Kolkata. In the last KOLKATA, Aug 24: Bowing to their At present, the state civil service offi- for each candidate for their week-long two months the Kolkata long term demand, the state government cers, who man most of the senior posts in stay abroad, he said. Corporation authorities detect- has decided to send WBCS officers to for- the state government, undergo only one In India, the officers will be trained also ed six cases of dengue, all from eign countries for their “in service train- training during their entire career- that too for a week at institutes such as the Tata the Muraripukur area, taking ing,” which was so long reserved only for at the beginning of their service, after Institute of Social Sciences, the total number to 31 from IAS officers. which they are posted as Block Administrative Staff College of India in January till date. Member Batches of 20-25 officers will be sent Development Officers in the districts. Hyderabad and Energy and Resources (health) of the mayor-in-council each year for seven-day study pro- The training will be of two types – one Institute formerly known as Tata Atin Ghosh said that all neces- grammes in various top ranking public to be held abroad and the other in India. Environmental Research Institute in sary measures had been taken to administration institutes abroad, Talks have already been held with the Delhi. control the situation. Personnel and Administrative Reforms School Of Public Policy in Singapore and Welcoming the move, WBCS “A total of eight dengue cases secretary Manoj Aggarwal said on with several institutes in Slovania. (Executive) Association secretary Saurav had been found in ward 14 cov- Monday. Opportunities will also be open for train- Chaki said, “Though IAS officers undergo Agitating students of Presidency University removing posters from the walls of the institute Prabir Bhattacharya ering Muraipukur and Bagmari The decision had been taken immedi- ing in England and USA and the govern- several such mid-career trainings, we had areas. Six of them were only in ately after Mamata Banerjee had taken ment will sign agreements with all these no such opportunity. This was one of our the last two months,” said office in 2011 and had attended a meeting institutes. long-standing demands. Such training Ghosh. “Four dengue cases had of WBCS (Executive) officers. But the The P & AR secretary said that the can- will surely improve functioning of the Screening been found in ward 117 file was gathering dust for all these years. didates would be selected on the basis of government.” (Behala), and roof-top tank to protest water is the main culprit in these Presidency cases,” he said. attack on film According to the MMIC, “We Govt to sell By Our Correspondent have taken all preventive meas- Give CBI more officers, ures to control dengue. But KOLKATA, Aug 24: The city Muraripukur is a difficult area, onion at students will participate in a big way in because the area is very much the countrywide “protest screen- congested and most of the resi- subsidised ings” of the film ‘Muzaffarnagar dents are used to migrating SC tells Bengal govt Baaqi Hai’ organised by the between locations for job. So, it By Our Correspondent 30 DSP-rank officers, 85 four times the strength price start wall ‘Cinema of Resistance’ on is difficult for KMC’s health Inspectors, 40 Sub offered by the state govern- Tuesday, documentary maker workers to screen dengue carri- KOLKATA, Aug 24: The Inspectors and 160 ment – was to be submitted By Our Correspondent Sumit Chowdhury said on behalf ers and control the disease.” Supreme Court on Monday Constables. The state gov- before the apex court with- of the organisers on Monday. Ghosh admitted that there had ordered the West Bengal ernment had, however, told in a month, it was ordered. KOLKATA, Aug 24: With The programme has been called been some drawback on the part government to provide the the court that it was in a Given the large number onion prices spiraling out of cleaning to protest the stopping of the film of the KMC staff. Regular check- CBI with adequate number position to give only 3 of chit fund cases spread control, selling anywhere directed by Nakul Singh ing areas for mosquito following of officials – at least twice DSPs, 2 inspectors, 5 SIs over several states, the CBI between Rs 60 and Rs 80 a By Our Correspondent Sawhney from being screened at the GIS map had not been fol- the number that the state and 10 constables. had earlier told the apex kilo, the state government has Delhi’s Kirori Mal College on lowed in all cases, he said. “We government was willing – to The Supreme Court told court that because of severe decided to sell onion at Rs 50 KOLKATA, Aug 24: After three days of tumultuous agitation, August 1 by alleged members of have started zonal fogging and expedite investigations into the state government to shortage of men and offi- per kg to help middle class the Presidency University students finally decided to change the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi area fogging to eradicate mosqui- the multi-crore chit fund provide at least double the cers it was not being possi- consumers. Agriculture minis- tack on Monday while continuing their symbolic gherao of the Parishad. Altogether 50 screen- to. These processes are prescribed scam. number of policemen. The ble to complete the investi- ter Arup Roy said on Monday Vice-chancellor’s chair. With criticism flowing in from different ings are scheduled at 44 towns in by WHO,” Ghosh said. The CBI had appealed to government was also told gation soon. The court that the government would quarters for defacing the heritage building with their graffiti, the 22 states. Ghosh had visited Calcutta the apex court to direct the that these officers should should order the unwilling open 49 counters in Kolkata to students decided to rectify their deeds. ‘Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai’ is Medical College on Monday. state government that it be be sent only on deputation state governments to lend it sell onions in packets. Each From the morning they started washing off all the wall writ- a documentary on the communal During the visit mosquito breed- provided with 10 to the CBI. Also, a list of adequate number of police packet would contain 500 gms ings at the heritage building and pasting white paper on the por- violence in Uttar Pradesh during ing ground had been found at the Superintendents of Police, officers and other men – officials, it had said. of onions and no one would be tico walls. Sourabrata Chakraborty of biological science depart- August-September 2013. The hospital’s garden and gust house allowed to purchase more than ment third year said, “The writings on the walls were the out- film will be screened on Tuesday near Eden building. He asked one packet. come of our rage on Friday. We apologise for the same. We have at the Film Studies Department, hospital authorities to take prop- Roy said that before leaving started removing all the wall writings and will also wash them Jadavpur University, at 3 pm and er measure, and assured them of for Darjeeling during the day, from the VC’s visitors’ room.” by Cinema of Resistance KMC help, if required. Rare tumour surgery the Chief Minister had State education minister Partha Chatterjee commented, (Kolkata chapter) at Muktangan instructed the government to “Whatever is happening at Presidency is a clash of cultured and at 6 pm. The CPI(M) youth wing sell onions at subsidized uncultured attitudes among the students. Anuradha Lohia will Democratic Youth Federation of prices. The price was unlikely remain the Vice-chancellor of Presidency University. The India (DYFI) will also hold an Slabs to come down soon as onion protest and vandalism were mainly done by the outsiders.” A open-air screening opposite at SSKM saves child produced in the state will come group of 20 Vice-chancellors of various universities also con- Jadavpur Supermarket at 8 pm. By Our Correspondent to the market only in October. demned the agitation. In a statement, they said, “Democratic removed About 3.8 lakh tonnes of onion privilege must not be tantamount to use of coercion and all By Our Correspondent KOLKATA, Aug 24: Doctors of the cardio-tho- are produced in West Bengal, stakeholders of higher education institutions across the state Police break racic surgery department of SSKM Hospital in while the demand is about 8 must work collectively towards the preservation and sustenance KOLKATA, Aug 24: Removal the city have successfully performed a compli- lakh tonnes. of a harmonious academic and administrative environment.” sit-in at of three slabs from the wall of cated operation on a rare tumour. The patient, According to experts, prices They expressed solidarity with Lohia. The All Bengal the KMC conference room has 10-year-old Naaz Parveen Ansari, is the only of onions are likely to increase Principal’s Association, too, extended their support to her. Lumtex Jute sparked off a controversy. The daughter of Firoz Ansari, a vegetable vendor of further by at least 10 per cent Former Assembly Speaker Hashim Abdul Halim, however, By Our Correspondent slabs were built during the pre- Nalhati in Birbhum district. Naaz had been suf- because of unseasonal rains said the students had a right to protest. He called for stopping vious Left regime when Bikash fering from fever since March. Her weight had affecting the crops. Onions of the “increasing government interference in the education- KOLKATA, Aug 24: Police Ranjan Bhattacharya was the come down to 20 kg. Local physicians had failed imported from Pakistan are al sphere”. swooped down on a two-and-a- city’s mayor. According to to cure her. She was losing consciousness from already in the market and those The students held a general body meeting which set the agen- half-year long workers’ sit-in sources, the slabs were time to time. Firoz brought her to SSKM in May. from Egypt will hit the market da for their future course of action. “From Tuesday we will start near the Lumtex Jute Mill at removed on Sunday and the Her treatment was started at the paediatric next week. But this will not a cultural movement. We will sit in front of the VC’s office with Khardah in North 24-Parganas wall was whitewashed. The department. help much in bringing down black cloth covering our face. We are publicly apologising to all district on Monday morning. conference room is just oppo- After a long procedure, the doctors detected the prices because the 100-200 those who are hurt by our mode of protest, especially to our stu- Five trade union activists, site mayor’s chamber. that she had got an inflammatory myofibroblas- containers carrying 30 tonnes dent fraternity, but not to Anuradha Lohia because she provoked including the former president When asked about the tic tumour blocking her left lung. She was trans- each will have to be distributed us to do it,” said Trisha Chanda, general secretary of of Lumtex Sangrami Mazdoor removal of slabs, mayor Sovan ferred to the cardio-thoracic surgery department. Mandal said, “The tumour was disturbing both in the entire country. Independent Consolidation, Presidency University. The protest- Union (LSMU) Alik Chatterjee said on Monday: She was treated under Dr Shantanu Dutta and Dr the lung and the heart of the girl. She could not The wholesale price of ing students as well as those opposing the movement clarified Chakraborty, were rounded up “The slabs did neither have Debajyoti Mandal, associate professors of the eat properly or even breathe properly. In this sit- onion has risen to around Rs their differences in the meeting. Almost 100 proposals were and taken to the Khardah police names of great personalities department. Dr Dutta said this type of tumour uation, anything could have happened.” 60 per kg at Lasalgaon in placed, which took about four hours to sort out. station. They were released on written on them, nor mention was commonly found in bones. But its occur- Dr Dutta and Dr Mandal operated upon her on Nasik, while it is already sell- Trisha also said, “Students of Jadavpur University or any PR bonds in the afternoon, but any great achievement of KMC. rence on the diaphragm between the lungs and August 12. After four hours of effort, the whole ing at around Rs 80 per kg in other institution can show us solidarity, but we assure that no police occupied the platform Walls of the heritage building the abdomen was very rare. Only two or three tumour was detached from the diaphragm. She retail markets. The high price one other than Presidency students will be allowed to enter the where the sit-in was being held. should be clean.” cases had been reported in the world and none in started to take food the day after the operation. has also begun attracting VC’s office. We are sticking to our demand for her resignation.” Reacting sharply to the present India. Since the diaphragm was also attached to On August 17, Naaz was released from the hos- thieves – something unheard From Tuesday, the agitators will start class campaigning and mayor’s remarks, former mayor the pericardium, the covering of the heart, Dr pital. She is almost normal now. of in recent times. also distribute a leaflet to the public explaining their stand. Bikas Ranjan Bhattachaya told Morning India: “They (Trinamool-led KMC) are trying to destroy the history. TMC board is functioning on the Garfa snatcher TMC defers Pune delegation achievements of the Left board. By Our Correspondent Students of FTII have begun an agita- students’ wing on the street. These slabs bore testimony to our tion demanding resignation of chairperson Opposition leaders have already point- achievements. Now, they want to in police net KOLKATA, Aug 24: Barely a couple of Gajendra Chauhan since June. Chauhan is ed out that Trinamool, at least in recent remove those achievements from By Our Correspondent lodged a complaint on August days after announcing that a delegation of known to be close to the BJP. times, had come in support of only those the sight of the people.” 11 with the Survey Park party MPs would visit Film and Television Trinamool’s decision to visit the FTII student agitations led by it even if they KOLKATA, Aug 24: The police station, saying that Institute of India in Pune to express solidar- campus in Pune had surprised many in the resulted in rampage in the campus and prime accused in the series of while she was walking down ity with agitating students, the Trinamool political circles, given the party’s track assault of teachers. Trinamool’s support snatching incidents which Chanchal Sarani a man Congress decided to postpone the visit. record on dealing with recent student for the FTII students – protesting against Sawan took place in the last fortnight snatched her gold necklace Abhishek Banerjee, party MP and movements in the state. the BJP-led government’s appointement KOLKATA, Aug 24: On the last in Garfa area has been arrest- and fled away before she nephew of Chief Minister Mamata The party had vociferously opposed the of Chauhan as the chairperson - had sur- Monday of Sawan Month, a ed by the detective depart- could react. On August 19, Banerjee, tweeted on Monday that the “Hok Kolorob” agitation in Jadavpur prised many. huge gathering of people was ment sleuths of Kolkata the police station received party delegation was keeping the visit on University, going to the extent of mobiliz- Significantly, the decision not to send the seen in the Shiv temples across Police. A 34-year-old another complaint of snatch- hold and hoped that the trip would happen ing its own students’ wing against it. Even delegation to FTII came only a day after Kolkata and Howrah. Mritunjoy Das alias Bappa ing. This time, the victim was sometime soon. The MP gave no explana- during the ongoing student agitation in Union finance minister in Kolkata com- Bhoothnath Mandir, Mota was arrested on Sunday night a middle aged man, whose tion as to why the earlier decision was Presidency University, the party had mended the Mamata Banerjee-led state Mahadev Mandir on Nimtalla at the 212 bus terminus under hand bag was snatched away being cancelled. strongly opposed it, again mobilizing its government’s developmental activities. Ghat Street, Shree Kashi Garfa police station in con- while he was passing by the Vishwanath Mahadev, nection with the snatching Pathbhumi Apartment. The Jabreshwar Mahadev, Bhu- incidents on August 11 and 19 bag contained Rs 5,900, a Kailash in Khidirpore, twelve in Garfa area, said Joint CP, mobile phone and some Mahadev in Dakhineshwar and crime, Pallav Kanti Ghosh. important documents. Adding speed to e-commerce also in Shiv Darbar in Shree Bappa, the main accused in The police observed that By Our Correspondent Kolkata and its neighbouring we shall pick up any product Shyam Mandir Ghusurudham, the two snatching cases, was the accused was alone in both districts in view of the huge of customers’ choice from Howarh were prominent to produced on Monday before the cases. On screening all the KOLKATA, Aug 24: potential thrown by the large local whole-sellers and retail- attract devotees. From the early the metropolitan magistrate of CCTV footages of Survey India's leading online mar- customer base. ers and arrange delivery of the morning people stood up in the Bankshal Court and was Park area, the police spotted ketplace Askmebazar.com "We are expecting to dou- same to the customers’ door- queue and waited for their turns. granted police custody till the presence of Bappa on both on Monday announced the ble our business volume in steps in immaculate condi- September 2. the days. The police then laid launch of a unique 'Next this part of the country from tion, that, too, on the very Anusua Das Gupta (66) a trap and arrested Bappa. Day Delivery' model in the about 200,000 transactions a next day," said Mathur. city, setting a new bench- month to at least 450,000 Mathur said that the offer mark for e-commerce and transactions from September price of any product delivered Mysterious burns kill housewife the fast pace on-line busi- onward," he said and added by them would be between KOLKATA, Aug 24: A murder case was registered over the ness covering a wide range his plan to move on to 50 eight and 20 per cent less than unnatural death of a housewife at Narkeldanga in north Kolkata of products and equipment. more cities and towns across the printed MRP with no addi- on Monday. Around 12.10 pm, police recovered the body of Announcing the launch of the country by this year-end. tional hidden cost. Hazra Begum, aged about 28 years, from a house at Narkeldanga the new 24-hour delivery Mathur claimed the NDD Accordingly, after Jaipur Cross Lane with severe burns. She was taken to the NRS system, Askmebazar.com's business module to be the first and Nagpur, Askmebazar had Hospital where she was pronounced dead. Police started a case Next Day Delivery (NDD) of its kind in India and said joined hands with several of murder after getting a complaint from her husband. Hazra head Marichi Mathur said NDD would play the role of a reputed chains of whole-sell- Begum was allegedly being harassed by her in-laws for some that following the success of catalyst in connecting the ers and retailers in the city to time. Neighbours were alerted by seeing smoke coming out of this new e-model for door-to- local buyer with local players ensure on-time delivery a the room where the victim stayed. Suddenly, her mother-in-law door delivery in Jaipur and for a seamless and cost-effi- wide range of products, daily groceries, selected med- started screaming.People rushed in and found Hazra Begum Nagpur earlier this month, cient transaction. including latest electronic ical equipment and many lying on the floor, badly burnt. the focus was now moved to "As per the rule of the game gadgets, computer, laptops, household items, Mathur said.