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CRY to urge Centre to amend Bill
KOLKATA, 20 NOV: Child Rights and You (CRY) would urge the Centre to amend the existing right to education Bill. Mr Dipankar Majumdar, director of the CRY, said there were many shortcomings and la

V-B proves that Tagore comes too easy...
;Pranesh Sarkar   KOLKATA, 20 NOV: The year has been a specially rough one for Visva-Bharati. It has been in the news for all the wrong reasons and the end is yet to come. In afresh round of contro

Tagore statuette impaled
JALPAIGURI, 20 NOV: The times are changing and even Tagore seems to have grown vulnerable in Bengal or else, who in the right frame of mind would think of impaling a Tagore statuette? It has happened

The woman who led from the top
; Statesman News Service ASANSOL, 20 NOV: Sometimes the best man for the job is a woman, but what if the job involves kidnapping high-profile businessmen for ransom across three states of eastern Ind

Money-minded docs shun govt jobs
;Anjan Chakraborty KOLKATA, 20 NOV: A lucrative private practice is what's keeping doctors in Bengal from taking up government jobs. The state health department stumbled on this rude fact when a numbe

Houses for poor still a far cry
;Snehamoy Chakraborty RAMPURHAT, 20 NOV: Construction of houses for slum dwellers under the integrated housing and slum development project (IHSDP) has come to a halt because of alleged callousness of

Briefs
Nine get life sentence RAMPURHAT, 20 NOV: Nine people were sentenced to life imprisonment after being held guilty of murder and provocation of communal tension by the additional district session’ judg

Govt staff justify late arrivals
;Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 20 NOV: A government order asking its employees to attend office on time, appears to have evoked a lukewarm response from most employees of various departments in Sal

Dead years ago, but still claiming property
;Asim Pramanik BEHRAMPORE, 20 NOV: Ever heard of a dead man claiming ownership of land in writing? A government employee, Mr Banka Roy Mondal and his brother, Mr Ashok Mondal, from Beldanga, in Mursh


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