The Supreme Court on Thursday wanted to know why trial in the murder of then railway minister L N Mishra, who wielded considerable political clout being close to then PM Indira Gandhi, in a bomb attack in Samastipur on January 2, 1975 was dragging in the lower court even after 37 years. A 27-year-old advocate, who was arrested in the case and chargesheeted, is now a frail 64 year-old and has...
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Bootleg liquor kills 143 people in West Bengal
-Associated Press Bootleg liquor containing toxic methanol killed 143 people and sickened dozens more who drank the cheap, illicit brew bought at small shops in West Bengal, officials said Thursday. Police arrested 10 suspected bootleggers. Emergency medical teams rushed to the village outside Kolkata, and thousands of relatives, many of them wailing in grief, gathered outside the packed hospital. Inside, dead bodies lay on the floor covered in quilts, while the ill...
More »Kolkata fire: Knee-jerk reactions stifling due process of law by A Mathur
A tragic fire broke out in the Advanced Medicare & Research Institute (AMRI) Hospital in Kolkata early Friday morning in which 91 persons have died, making it one of the worst tragedies in any hospital in India. Many patients died while asleep.The government has ordered a judicial probe which shall run parallel to the inquiry under police's detective department. AMRI hospital, where the unfortunate incident occurred, is a private hospital and...
More »Denied 1st AC berths, MPs create ruckus by Dwaipayan Ghosh
They are known to enjoy the privileges, but even the railways was not prepared for what essentially was a technical error on their part. Forced to board a second class AC compartment in the capital-bound Patna Rajdhani after the railways could not arrange for an additional first AC rake, 18 MPs from Bihar created a ruckus at Mughalsarai junction on Tuesday night. As a result, the train was stuck at...
More »56,000 homeless in Delhi, finds UNDP by Geeta Gupta
There is finally a definite figure to the number of homeless people in the city. Delhi has nearly 56,000 homeless people, says a survey conducted by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The government has accepted the draft survey report prepared by the UNDP, in association with Mother, an NGO, as an official estimate of the number of homeless in Delhi. The report, titled ‘Homeless Survey-2010’, says the Capital has a total of...
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