Tagore 150-birth anniversary observed

KOLKATA: Sri Sri Sitaramdas Omkarnath Sanskrit Siksha Samsad organised a programme at ‘Baikunta Dham’ near Southern Avenue on 25 February to celebrate 150-birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore.
The programme was presided by professor Dr Gopal Mitra. Bramhachari Mural Bhai, the general secretary of Dakhineswar Ramkrishna Sangha Adyapeath delivered his speech in that occasion.Dr Suresh Kumar Bandhopadhya, register of Sri Sri Sitaramdas Omkarnath Sanskrit Siksha Samsad, and professor Ranjana Mukherjee also addressed the gathering.

Human Rights and Law College to be set up in Panskura

KOLKATA: Panskura Brihannala Welfare Society (PBWS) and Asian Human Rights Society (AHRS) will set up a Human Rights and Law College at Kanakpur near Panskura in East Midnapore.
Secretary of Panskura Brihannala Welfare Society (PBWS) and secretary of state women wing of AHRS, Barama (Sova Halder), said the fund would be provided by the Asian Human Rights Society.
Md Mehebub Rahmani, president of AHRS laid the foundation stone for the college on Saturday. He said without legal awareness men can’t fight against the violators of the human rights.
Quazi Sadeque Hossain, general secretary of AHRS said that the requirement to set up human rights and law-college is very much important to help the tortured victims.
Barama said there are a large number of cases of human rights violation taking place in several areas of East and West Midnapore and the brihannala are the worst victims of human rights violation cases.
“Even police hate us and denied to pursue our cases. So legal awareness is much required to organize movement against the human rights violations, she said.
Barama said that a group of miscreants snatched the valuables and money of the brihannala (eunuch) and fled away but police are not arresting the criminals and taking bribes from them. Most of the victims (brihannala) lost their deposits following the stealing of the valuables by the miscreants.
“Even the miscreants group plotted a conspiracy to murder me as I led a movements by the brihannala to protest against the looting and snatching by the miscreants. I lodged a complaint but the culprits are not behind the bars, said Barama.
A meeting was organised and several human rights activists participated in the programme. Manju Mukherjee, Khokan Banik, Ratneswar Kayal, Barun Mahato, Kundan Halder
Madan Mohan Upadhya, secretary of Vivekananda Sishu Mandir (Radhamohanpur), Ganga Pada Maity, vice president of the same organisation, Sudarshan Maity, headmaster delivered their speech in the occasion.
Human rights activist Kundan Halder said more movements should be organised to stop the attack on eunuchs and administration should pursue the criminal cases against the attackers, who are robbing the valuables of the brihannala.
Khokan Banik said there is a long history heritage of the eunuch of India and they have their own separate culture and should be helped to maintain their tradition.

LF proves mass strength by pouring crowd in Brigade rally

KOLKATA: The Trinamul Congress leaders are hampering the development works in West Bengal, Left Front (LF) chairman Biman Bose said today.
He was addressing a big rally at Brigade parade ground. This is the last Left Front rally at Brigade before Assembly poll.
He said the Trinamul is an evil force and people should deject this party as the party is hampering all development works in the state.
Other LF leaders also said in their speech that the Trinamul supporters in connivance with the Maoists terrorizing the people of Junglemahal and instigating violence.
Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee expressed his satisfaction over the gathering at Brigade said that they are ready to fight at the Assembly election
Chief minister said UPA government at the Centre is solely responsible for the price hike of the essential commodities and the government failed to take action against the corruption and scams.
He said that the Trinamul has hand in glove with the Maoists and is responsible for several murder and violence in Junglemahal areas. He said Trinamul leaders should plead apology for their mistakes. He urged that all the supporters should fight to oust the evil forces from the state.

Parliamentary Standing Committee on railways satisfied over land acquistion process for railway projects

Pix:Bapi Raju Kanumuru, Member of Loksabha (third from left) with Varun Vharthuar, general manager, Eastern Railway and Vinoy Mittal, general manager, South Eastern Railway (second and third from right respectively )

KOLKATA: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Railways in Kolkata, members of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Railways under the convenership of Bapi Raju Kanumuru, Member of Loksabha held a meeting with both Eastern and South Eastern Railways today in a city hotel.
During the meeting, members discussed regarding the policy of employment in Railways and also land acquisition. Both the General Managers of Eastern and South Eastern Railways, Varun Bharthuar and Vinay Mittal explained elaborately regarding the policies and present condition in details. Members expressed their satisfaction after the discussion specially for the transparency on this two subjects.
Among the members Khiladi Lal Bairwa, Dr. Ram Chandra Dome, Pralhad Joshi, Bapi Raju Kanumuru, Dr.Botcha Jhansi Lakshmi, Somabhai G. Koli Patel and Satabdi Roy from Loksabha and Om Prakash Mathur, Tarini Kanta Roy, T.M. Selvaganapathi and Sushila Tiriya from Rajyasabha and officials from Loksabha Secretariat were present in the meeting. Other than GMs, senior officers of both Eastern and South Eastern Railways also joined the meeting.

Tusker damages Technology market of IIT Kharagpur

KOLKATA: A tusker entered into the campus of the IIT Kharagpur this evening and damaged havoc the Technology market.
The animal earlier destroyed crops and damaged many residences at Jakpur, Thakurnagar and Palasia in rural areas of Kharagpur.
A police officer said the animal damaged the gate of the Tata Stadium and some shops of the market. Shop owners soon fled away after closing their shops. People also stayed inside their residence. Senior divisional forest officials arrived at the spot and supervising elephant driving operation. A large number of crowds gathered at the spot and forest employees facing difficulties to continue the tusker driving operation. Police also arrived at the spot and urging people to vacate the area.