Strike against price rise peaceful in West Bengal

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KOLKATA: A 12-hour nation-wide bandh called by 13 non-NDA and non-UPA parties today to protest against price rise is peaceful in Kolkata and surrounding areas. Bandh hit normal life and affected air and rail services in city.
Streets in city and its surrounding districts where educational institutions were also closed wore a deserted look.
The 'Bharat Bandh' began at 6 am.
Besides the four Left parties and 13-party including AIADMK, BJD, SP, RJD, TDP, RLD, LJP, JD-S and INLD gave the call for the nation wide strike. grouping to protest against hike in prices of petrol, diesel and fertilizer products.
Rail services were disrupted in Sealdah and Howah section.
A senior leader of the CPM claimed the bandh is successful in large parts of the country.
Two train passengers were injured as a clash broke out between travellers in Ganga Sagar Express and bandh supporters at Pandua station in Hoogly district.
Hundreds of passengers were stranded at Howrah and Sealdah railway stations and airports.
Airport official said only ten out of 25 domestic and international flights took off this morning from NSCBI Airport.

27 APRIL, 2010

Hailstorm in districts

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KOLKATA: People of the several districts today heaved a sigh of relief following hailstorm in Bankura, Burdwan, North and South 24 Parganas Birbhum and Murshidabad. Most of the districts were reeling under heatwave for over a fortnight.
A senior official of the Regional Meteorological forecasted rain and gusty wind in some areas of south Bengal in the next 48 hours.
The official also added that the rains followed by thunder are likely to lead to a temporary lowering of temperatures in the Kolkata and the surroundings areas.Four flights had to be diverted from Kolkata because of the strong wind coupled with the shower around 7 pm. Tulin Brahma an EFR jawan of the first battalion was injured in a camp in Midnapore West after a tin of a roof hit his head during the storm. Two persons were injured in Burdwan district after a tree fell on them.

Tarakeswar and Talpur rail services started

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KOLKATA: Railway minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurated a new line between Tarakeswar and Talpur on 25 April. Banerjee also announced that Talpur station would be renamed as “Kathasahithik Saratchandra Chattopadhyay.”
After inaugurating the new railway line she said that she laid the foundation stone for the Tarakeswar-Bishnupur 82.47 kilometre new line project during her five-month tenure as railway minister in 1995, but the Left Front and its friendly ally at the Centre did not do anything to complete the project.
She promised that railway authorities will provide job to one member of each family who will give their land to help railway to lay the tracks for Tarakeswar-Bishnupur railway line.
She highlighted that railway authorities soon connect the major tourist places of Hooghly and Bankura including Kamarpukur, Jayrambati by railway line.
Railway authorities will also lay the 51.95 kilometre railway track between Tarakeswar and Magra station soon. A new line between Bishnupur and Gokulnagar was also inaugurated by the union minister of state for shipping, Mukul Roy in Bishnupur, Bankura on Sunday. Union minister of State for Urban Development, Sougata Roy inaugurated some passengers’ reservation counters in several stations of North 24 Parganas including Birati, Belghoria, Sodepur on Sunday.

26 APRIL, 2010