Archive for 'April 6th, 2012'

Heavy showers cause water-logging in Kolkata

Heavy showers cause water-logging in Kolkata

Kolkata, Apr 6: Heavy thundershowers woke Kolkata on Friday morning. In fact, overnight rains have left several parts of the city waterlogged. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has been working to drain out the water. While the [...]

Nine infants die in Malda hospital within 12 hours time space

Nine infants die in Malda hospital within 12 hours time space

Malda, Apr 6: Nine infants died within a space of 12 hours at the Malda Medical College and Hospital in the district where barely two months back 20 newborns had died. Of the nine infants, who [...]

Industrialist, Lord Paul says India is an attractive investment destination

Industrialist, Lord Paul says India is an attractive investment destination

New Delhi, Apr 6 : India is currently the “most attractive” investment destination, London-based industrialist Lord Swraj Paul said today, underlining that retrospective amendment of laws to bring into the tax net Vodafone-type deals will not [...]

GSPCB issued Show cause notices to 40 mining firms in Goa

Panaji, Apr 6 : Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has issued show cause notices to 40 mining firms for allegedly extracting ore much beyond permissible limit. The firms have been asked why appropriate action under [...]

Forest guard missing

Jamui, Apr 6 : A forest guard is suspected to have been kidnapped by unidentified persons from Amjhuri pelamba village in Bihar’s Jamui district, police said. Naresh Singh, a forest guard of Batia, went missing from [...]

Uttar Pradesh govt transfers Principal Secretary K K Sharma

Uttar Pradesh govt transfers Principal Secretary K K Sharma

Lucknow, Apr 6 : The Uttar Pradesh government has transferred Principal Secretary, Law, and legal advisor, K K Sharma, official sources said here. Sharma has been transferred to Agra as District Judge in place of Zaki [...]

Veteran CPI leader, Promode Gogoi dead

Veteran CPI leader, Promode Gogoi dead

Guwahati, Apr 6 : Veteran CPI leader and former Assam Minister Promode Gogoi died here today following brief illness. Gogoi, the party’s central secretariat and national executive member since 1975, was 82 and a bachelor, CPI’s [...]

RSP’s record breaking show in all major areas in 2011-12

Bhubaneswar, Apr 6 : Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has completed 2011-12 with record breaking performance in all major areas such as hot metal. The steel plant produced 2.31 MT of hot metal, 2.17 MT of crude [...]

Five killed in jeep-truck collision

Dhar, Apr 6 : Five persons were killed and five others injured in a jeep-truck collision this morning about 40 kms from here, on Indore-Ahmedabad national highway, police said. A total of 13 passengers were travelling [...]

Fresh talks for release of abducted MLA, Italian

Bhubaneswar, Apr 6 : Fresh talks were held today between the Odisha government and the Maoist mediators, a day after the government named the 27 jailed people to be freed in return for the release of [...]