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Shocked the way Kishenji was killed: Forward Bloc

-IANS  Expressing its admiration for slain Maoist leader Kishenji but opposing his brand of politics, The All India Forward Bloc Saturday said it was 'shocked' over the way he was killed by the police. 'We are shocked over the way Kishenji was killed. Many times he had tried to contact us through telephone. I told him clearly that I admire you, but I do not agree with the way you are fighting...

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12 infants die in 48 hours in Kolkata hospital

CNN-IBN   In a shocking development, a total of 12 infants have died at the B C Roy Children's hospital in Kolkata. All the infants died in the hospital in the past 48 hours. Hospital superintendent Dilip Roy said that delayed admission of the babies, who were already in a very critical condition, led to the deaths. "We are always trying to improve service and treatment but some deaths are taking place since the babies...

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Hunger stalks government schools in West Bengal by Sayantan Bera

Pilot survey under Project Dipankar in four prosperous districts shows 87 per cent class I students of government schools are undernourished Eighty-seven per cent school children in four districts of West Bengal are undernourished right at the entry level. The shocking numbers are from the yet unpublished report of Project Dipankar, a child tracking system initiated by the department of school education in the state. The project tracks the educational performance...

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Reversing reforms? by Malini Bhattacharya

The beneficiaries of the land reforms in West Bengal get pushed out of their land under the new regime. MOGHAI MUNDA is dead. No one is there to mourn him but his distraught parents and his young wife who seems to have lost her power of speech. But it is a significant death, even if it is ignored by the ubiquitous media and, therefore, by the world at large. Like the...

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Bare-knuckle battle with rocks by Bijoy Gurung

Nine villages with a combined population of 1,000 were out of the reach of the rescue effort in North Sikkim till this evening, injecting a fresh sense of urgency into a task force blasting past and working around boulders blocking roads in the region. The cut-off villages are located in Dzongu, the protected area of the Lepchas, the indigenous tribal community of Sikkim. The villages have been identified as Shipgyer, Bey,...

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