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Orissa mines: Shah panel snubs lapses

The Centre-appointed Shah Commission is appeared quite unhappy with the state of affairs in the mineral-rich Keonjhar district.

Rahul discusses Muslim issues

AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi interacts with party workers at a UPCC meeting in Lucknow on Sunday. 	— PTI

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Sunday visited Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama, a much respected Islamic seminary in Lucknow, and met its rector Maulana Rabey Hasani Nadwi, also the president of the All-India

Tragedy brings adversaries face to face

The AMRI tragedy brought arch political adversaries chief minister Mamata Banerjee and CPI(M) state secretary Biman Bose face to face. When Mr Bose went to the SSKM Hospital, he stopped his car when he saw Ms Banerjee. Both said a polite “namaskar” and then Ms Banerjee held Mr Bose’s hand and assured him that her government was taking every possible measure.

‘She died by the time I reached’

Some of the patients were critical while some were about to be discharged, but destiny had something else in store for them. The ill-fated Friday turned AMRI Hospital into a tinderbox. By 7 am, the AMRI Hospital witnessed heart-wrenching scenes. The premise was filled wails and cries of the patients’ families.

Mamata takes charge at the spot

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday once again led from the front in the face of the major tragedy that unfolded in a south Kolkata hospital. She arrived on the scene and took control of the situation. Holding a hand-held mike, she started giving orders. She supervised the shifting of the dead bodies to the state-run SSKM Hospital for post-mortem.

89 die in Kolkata hospital fire

Eighty-nine people were killed in a devastating fire at the Advanced Medical Research Institute (AMRI) Hospital at Dhakuria in south Kolkata early on Friday morning. It is feared the death toll may rise.

Fears over radiation trigger panic

The catastrophe at AMRI Hospital on Friday once again exposed the skeleton infrastructure of the state government in tackling any emergency when the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) was pressed in by the Centre to

Kabir Suman kicks off another controversy

Maverick Trinamul Congress MP Kabir Suman has stoked yet another controversy by composing a song criticising the police firing at Mograhat village in South 24 Parganas district which left two women dead on December one.
Suman uploaded the song Kabir Jethur Gaan (Song of uncle Kabir) on his

JD-U retains Laukaha Assembly seat

The ruling JD(U) on Sunday retained the Laukaha Assembly seat in Bihar with its candidate Sanjay Kumar Sah defeating his nearest RJD rival Mokhtar Ahmed by 22,763 votes.

Trinamul sweeps Kolkata South bypoll

With the win of Subrata Bakshi by a massive margin in Kolkata South Lok Sabha seat, the victory march of the Trinamul Congress goes on.

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