timesofnorth January 2016

DAY & NIGHT SUBJUNIOR CRICKET TOURNAMENT INAUGURATED IN SILIGURI

By Shekhar Patra (TNI Siliguri) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 31st January, 2016: ‪ A Gala opening of Prakash Chandra Saha memorial Day & Night Sub Junior Knockout Cricket Tournament took place at Dadabhai Sporting Ground today in the wee hours of Sunday. The tournament also has the other prizes i.e. Ajit Kumar Biswas and Mira Biswas Champions Trophy, Dhirendra Kumar Banerjee Runners Trophy, Dipa Guha Fair play trophy. The chief guest on the occasion was The SMC Mayor Mr. Ashok Bhattacharya. Apart from this the MIC – Sports Mr. Shankar Ghosh was also present along with other distinguished guests. The chief guest and other dignitaries greeted the players of both the teams of the 1st match i.e. Udayan Cricket Academy (Alipurduar) and Baghajatin Cricket Coaching Centre (Siliguri) before the start of play. In the match, Baghajatin CCC won the toss and elected to bat and ended their innings scoring 136 runs loosing 4 wickets in 25 over. Chasing the total Udayan CA (Alipurduar) managed only 115 runs in 24.3 overs losing all the wickets and the match. Ritesh Roy from Baghajatin CCC was declared Man of the Match for his 65 runs in 66 balls.

Photo: Shekhar Patra (TNI)

HELP PROVIDED TO MADHYAMIK & HIGHER SECONDARY STUDENTS OF RED BANK

By Atish Sen (TNI Banarhat) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Banarhat, 31st January, 2016: Sunitibala Dustho Chattri Kalyan Samity today organized a help camp for this year’s Madhyamik and Higher Secondary candidates from the closed Red Bank Tea Garden. 32 candidates were given Rs. 500 each. Present was Vice president of the organization Smt. Aparna Bagchi & Smt. Swapna Deb, Secretary Smt. Jaya Ghatak, other members i.e. Mr. Sanjay Chakraborty, Mr. Subhajit Roy etc. The officials of the organization that though the organization works for the poor girl child but today they have diverted their principle and have tried to help all irrespective of the gender by looking at the condition of the guardians of those distressed examinees.

Photo: Atish Sen (TNI)

THIS YEAR’S WORST BATTING DISPLAY AT SILIGURI CRICKET LEAGUE

By Shekhar Patra (TNI Siliguri) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 31st January, 2016: ‪ In one of the worst batting display in this year’s version of Siliguri Cricket league a meager total of just 133 total runs were scored by both teams despite no over cut due to bad weather. In the round robin 1st Division Cricket League of Siliguri Mahakuma Krira Parishad at Kanchanjangha Stadium between Netaji Subhas Sporting Club (NSSC) and NRI. Netaji Subhas Sporting Club made 68 runs in 15.3 overs after losing 3 wickets. However, the score could not be overcome by NRI and thus NRI lost the match. NNC could only manage 65 runs in 24.4 over before losing all of their wickets. None of the batsmen scored anything mention worthy enough in the scoreboard. Netaji Subhas Sporting Club thus won the match by just 3 runs.

Photo: Shekhar Patra (TNI)

ARMY PERSONNEL DIE IN MYSTERIOUS CONDITION AT BINNAGURI

By Atish Sen (TNI Banarhat) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Binnaguri, 31st January, 2016: An army personnel was found dead in mysterious circumstances at Binnaguri Army Base Camp. An unconfirmed source told that Naik Kishor Bantaya (59) from Army Defence Service Corps was found dead at dawn in the camp. Primarily is suspected that his death has occurred from his own service rifle bullet. Mr. Kishore Bantaya had retired from Naga Regiment and joined the Army Defence Service Corps in the position of Naik. He has joined his services after coming from a leave on 28th January. From the Police source, it is said that the bullet pierced from his forehead and went out from his skull. The investigation is going on and the body was sent for post-mortem.

40 THOUSAND MADHYAMIK CANDIDATES THIS YEAR FROM U. DINAJPUR: MR. BYOMKESH

By Partha Chatterjee (TNI Raigunj) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Raigunj, 31st January, 2016: This year Uttar Dinajpur district is having a total number of 39465 students appearing for Madhyamik Pariksha. The WBBSE appointed District Monitoring team convenor Mr. Byomkesh Burman told TNI that this year a total of 93 centers is conducting the examination. WBBSE is ensuring that the students, who are appearing for their first Board examination in their life, should not face any sort of difficulties. From the last year, 16 centers have increased in the district. Among the total number of Madhyamik candidates 13839 are male regular candidates, 1310 are male casual candidates, 65 are compartmental candidates, 19615 are female regular candidates, 4507 are female casual candidates, and 129 are female compartmental candidates. Mr. Byomkesh also told TNI that for meeting any kind of situation in the examination centers the district administration have arranged police pickets in the centers, Fast aid facilities, Paramedical team etc apart from other security measures. The WBBSE have wished all the best to all the Madhyamik Pariksha candidates.

DEVASTATING FIRE ROCKED MALBAZAR’S MARKET TODAY

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Webdesk, TNI Malbazar, 31st January, 2016: A devastated Fire rocked the Malbazar’s Daily bazaar at Dooars this morning. at least 7 fire engines from Mainaguri and Jalpaiguri rushed to the spot for dousing the flames. Currently, the fire is under control. The fire was detected at around 4:30 am today morning by the localites who informed the other people. Immediately, the matter was reported to the fire brigade and police. However, there were no casualties reported. This is one of the major fires which have rocked this town in the recent years. The total valuation of the economic loss is currently estimated.

IIT GUWAHATI RANKED AS THE 14TH BEST UNIVERSITY OF THE WORLD

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Webdesk, TNI Guwahati, 30th January, 2016: According to the Times Higher Education’s (THE) ‘World’s Best Small Universities Ranking 2016’ is concerned the IIT – Guwahati is ranked as the best 14th University of the World. According to Mr. Phil Baty, the ranking editor “India’s institutions are well represented in the World’s Best Small Universities Ranking 2016  alongside Caltech, they demonstrate the world-class offering available at smaller institutions, no matter their location.” The small universities are defined by some criterion i.e. students current enrolment is below 5000 and research works carried out in at least 4 disciplines. The news has already created ripples in the Indian Education sector especially, the North Eastern regions, which is always considered as the last benchers in the National scene. There is a sense of hue and cry among the students of IIT-Guwahati. According to one 1st year student “I didn’t understand that I have taken admission in such a great institution in my course. I now can realize it not because of the ranking because of the extreme professionalism the institution is imparting on us”.

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12TH ANNUAL DAY OF ICOD CELEBRATED AT KOLKATA

By Swarnali Goswami (TNI Kolkata) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 30th January, 2016: On 24th January ICOD celebrated their 12th Annual Day. Many guests were invited on the occasion. Visitors enjoyed the eco-biological area of the institution, the farmland, and the overall lush green campus as well which was also decorated with Rangoli (Alpona). A wall magazine & handicraft (made by the inmates of ICOD) exhibition was also inaugurated on the occasion. The main program started at 2.30 PM at ‘Bhogini Nibedita Hall’. Brother Gastone presided the program. He welcomed all the guests with his welcome speech. Smt. Mamata Ghosh, the Secretary of ICOD also addressed the gathering in the hall describing ICOD and the future of the organization. A musical drama directed by Mr. Samrat Bose and scripted by Mr. Nirmalya Ghosh was staged by the inmates of ICOD. Overall, it can be said that the sparkle in the eyes of the inmates of ICOD like Adimoni Besra, Iasmina Khatun, Rinki Khatun, Sarina Khatun etc. told the story which ICOD could bring in their eyes about their future.

Photo: Swarnali Goswami (TNI)

TAI ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD AT BINNAGURI TODAY

By Atish Sen (TNI Banarhat) ~ Edited By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Binnaguri, 30th January, 2016: The North Bengal branch of Tea Association of India (TAI) organized their 45th AGM today at Binnaguri Central Dooars Club. The main personnel present in the meeting was the president of TAI (North Bengal) Mr. Manas Bhattacharya, General Secretary Mr. Prabir Kr Bhattacharya, The Consulate General of India in Bhutan Mr. Piyush Gupta, The MLA of Alipurduar Mr. Debaprasad Roy and the owners of tea companies from Hills, Terai and Dooars. According to Mr. Manas Bhattacharya that currently the price of per kg of tea has decreased every year. However, the tea production has gone up in double quantities from the year 1992. He also clarified that re-plantation is highly required by replacing the old non-productive bushes. Moreover, the Tea industry is an agricultural industry but the rates of electricity are line with the heavy industries which is a huge burden on the Tea companies. Most of the dignitaries in the meeting expressed almost similar viewpoints. The Alipurduar MLA Mr. Debaprasad Roy said that since 7 tea gardens have been acquired by the Central Government, it may usher in a new hope for this region. He again emphasized that the other tea gardens which are crumbling should see the similar ray of hope from the Central Government. Tea Tourism was also discussed in the meeting.

Photo: Atish Sen (TNI)

TOTO ACCIDENT AT SHIVMANDIR DUE TO PROBABLE WRONG DESIGN

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Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 29th January, 2016: In an alarming incident today at Shivmandir, Siliguri a TOTO (E-Rickshaw)met with an accident while taking a sharp turn near the library building of an educational institution located here. Eyewitnesses told TNI that the TOTO vehicle didn’t collide or slipped while taking the turn rather the vehicle came in a misbalanced condition which the driver could not control and it capsized. During that time, there were 3 passengers in the vehicle who escaped unhurt because the vehicle was not at a high speed. However, the TOTO driver got some minor injuries in his head. He was immediately taken to a local clinic for treatment. No police case was registered. According to the experts, such incidents may rise in Siliguri and adjoining areas due to the entry of crude designs and technologies used in manufacturing of the TOTO vehicles by some unscrupulous and unlicensed TOTO vehicle makers. These locally designed vehicles are not made scientifically so they met with some unexpected accidents.

CHILD INJURED IN STONE PELTING AT SHATABDI EXPRESS

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Webdesk, TNI NJP, 29th January, 2016: Window seats of Shatabdi Express seats are not safe anymore. On 23rd January in an incident of sudden stone pelting at Shatabdi Express before Malda Station, an infant was severely injured leaving the co-passengers terribly shocked. The incident has been reported to the rail authorities and they spent no time to come forward and make necessary damage control measures to close the hole in the window. Mr. Sajal Bose from Jalpaiguri and a frequent traveler to Kolkata told the press that “This is not the first time such an incident have occurred. This is the 3rd incident I have witnessed in Shatabdi Express in the last 1 year”. However, such incidents are alarming in a scenario when a huge amount of money is collected in the name of passenger security through the tickets, which is witnessing a skyrocketing price for the last few years.

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COBRA RESCUED FROM A BANARHAT SEPTIC TANK

By Atish Sen (TNI Banarhat) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Banarhat, 29th January, 2016: A cobra was trapped accidentally today in a septic tank of a house at Banarhat. The house belongs to Mr. Bimal Sengupta, a resident of 1 No. Colony of Banarhat area. Mr. Sengupta told TNI that there are some construction works going on in the house. To dump the garbage the unused septic tank was opened by the masons engaged in the work. Immediately they saw the cobra inside the tank. The people gathered to see the reptile. However, nobody wanted to hurt the snake instead they themselves called up the forest department for rescuing it. Forest personnel from Binnaguri forest squad came in the afternoon and took it away along with them.

Photo: Atish Sen (TNI)

“SAHID DIBAS” TO BE ORGANIZED AT SILIGURI TATHYA KENDRA TOMORROW

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Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 29th January, 2016: ‪The Department of Information and Culture, GOWB of Siliguri Subdivision is going to organise the ‘Sahid Dibas’ tomorrow i.e. 30th January 2016 Saturday. In a press invitation today the SDICO Mr. Mitendra Chettri today informed the press about the event. The program is slated to start from 9 am where an All Religious Prayer meeting at Siliguri’s Tathya Kendra. The SDO of Siliguri Mr. Rajanveer Singh Kapoor will be present in the program including many invited religious heads based on Siliguri.

NEW BENGALI FILM TO HIT SILVER SCREENS ON 26TH FEBRUARY

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 28th January, 2016: Sanjoy Hazra is all set to make his directorial debut with the film “E Je Ek Obujh Prem” by Suramandir Films and marketing by Sanjoy Hazra Production. Music is directed by Mr. Ranvir Roy in association with Rooh Music, and few of the tracks are sung as well by him. A new set of faces will be seen in the film casting Anand Mishra, Arpita Sarkar, and many others. “The film will bridge the gap between Art Film and Commercial film of the Kolkata Film industry,” said the Director. The story revolves around a couple with different social status who ultimately marries but, in the end, dies according to the script bringing tragedy in the story which is going to hit the screens on 26th of February. The film was shot in China and different parts of Bengal.

Edited by: D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri)
Photo: Priyanka Ghosh Dastidar (INT – Kolkata)

A SPECIAL GUIDE BOOK FOR PREGNANT WOMEN LAUNCHED IN KOLKATA

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 28th January, 2016: Sudip Basu, an eminent doctor working for years in UK launched his book on guiding the would-be-mothers “Maa Howar Prostuti” on 24th January at South City Residential Club. Being a doctor himself Dr. Basu has seen how much restless the patient’s guardians while the pregnant woman is inside the labor room during her delivery. The writer said that when his wife Urvashi was pregnant she used to walk down the streets to buy books that could guide her in the journey of 9 months pregnancy. This clicked an idea in his mind of educating the would-be-mothers back home in India. The pregnant woman in India, very often face a lot of problem during child delivery. Further, Dr. Basu clarified that he was well aware of the fact that this mammoth task would not accomplish single-handedly.  Sujata, a health column journalist penned down his concept in a lucid form for the compilation of the book. Ultimately, after countless phases the book was launched on 24th of January. Dr. Basu dedicated the book to all the pregnant mothers with a good intention to help them out, which also contain a lot of research work with authentic support & information.

Edited By: T. Deepika (TNI Siliguri)
Photo: Priyanka Ghosh Dastidar (INT – Kolkata)

“BAANGALER CHHORACHHORI” LAUNCHED AT KOLKATA

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 27th January, 2016: Ajoy Gupta’s “Baangaler Chhorachhori” an exquisite book of limericks, was launched at Oxford Book Store, Kolkata. The book reminisces his days in erstwhile East Pakistan. ‘Baangaler Chhorachhori’ pens down an emotional account of Ajoy’s memories held in laughter and tears. The book was launched by the Brand Ambassador of Kolkata, Chuni Goswami, an Olympian Footballer and Sankarlal Bhattacharjee, an eminent Litterateur, and journalist. Chuni Goswami brought much humor to the book launch saying that in spite of being a ‘Bangal’ I played for Mohun Bagan which is believed to a ‘Ghoti’ team. This proves that in spite of the numerous refugees settling in the then formed new-land, could easily mix up with the people of this West Bengal. The book narrates the story of a refugee displaced by the partition of Bengal. The book is an exemplary look back at Bengali manners and mores of times gone by. The Poet has reworked his memories into a confessional mode but offered it all in a uproarious laughter and ‘Baangal’ accents and intonation.

Edited By: T. Deepika (TNI Siliguri)
Photo: Priyanka Ghosh Dastidar (INT – Kolkata)

MOVIE ‘AIRLIFT’ TO IGNITE PATRIOTISM AMONG THE AUDIENCE

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 27th January, 2016: The movie ‘Airlift’ has been strategically put on screen to coincide with the patriotic fervor that merges with the Republic Day as it is based on country’s largest human evacuation ever made in history from Kuwait during its Iraq invasion. The protagonist of the film Akshay Kumar along with Nimrat Kaur was in Kolkata to promote Raja Menon’s film, Airlift. He said he will be playing the part of Ranjit Katyal, the then business tycoon of Kuwait who selflessly took up the responsibility of 1,70,000 Indians captive during Iraq’s sudden invasion in Kuwait. After doing movies like Holiday and Baby he feels like doing movies that are based on real events and that would attract the audience to stimulate patriotism for the nation. The movie starts with the Hero believing in Kuwaiti Citizenship but gradually as the scenario changes the distress of the men of his motherland drives him restless to save those poor souls by using his contacts.

Edited By: T. Deepika (TNI Siliguri)
Photo: Priyanka Ghosh Dastidar (INT – Kolkata)

RELIEF CAMP AT BANDAPANI TG ON REPUBLIC DAY

By Atish Sen (TNI Banarhat)

Webdesk, TNI Banarhat, 27th January, 2016: On the eve of Republic Day a relief camp was organized in the closed Bandapani tea garden in Dooars. It was a voluntary initiative by Banarhat Integrated Rural Development Society. The organization secretary, Devyani Basu, informed that usually people go on picnics during such holidays or enjoy the excitement of the day’s celebration. Unfortunately, the locked down gardens do not even get their share of flag hoisting events on such days. Keeping this in mind the organization chose to celebrate the day by setting up relief camp. Reportedly, relief items were distributed on the morning of 26th January among the garden workers after hoisting the national flag. 30 new blankets were given out and 500 workers received (used) warm clothes. The used clothes were collected from Banarhat Tea Garden, Banarhat Bazaar, Karbala Tea Garden and Chunabhati Tea Garden. In this regard, she thanked all the contributors.

Photo: Atish Sen (TNI)

“SABUJ SATHI” CYCLES SOLD THROUGH OLX.IN BY GUARDIANS IN SILIGURI

By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 27th January, 2016: The whole day in Siliguri saw a gruesome time for most of the pedestrians, cyclists, motorists etc. in Siliguri. Some of the office goers could not even reach their offices in time and had to take a sudden leave. Reason …. protest by the guardians and students for the delay of cycles delivery through the CM’s “Sabuj Sathi” scheme. However, what for the cycles when the students have mobile phones with net packs? Was that the motive behind the scheme? Absolutely not. This was reflected when you take a sudden visit in the local cycle repairing shops. Many shops displayed cycles with “Sabuj Sathi” logo for sale for Rs. 2000 – 3000. On inquiry, the shop owners said they will earn a commission of Rs. 1000/- per cycle sale. More vivid pictures came out in OLX.in website. The students/guardians spent no time in uploading the cycles of the scheme in the online advertisement for sale with the names and phone numbers openly displayed.

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RATAN TATA INVESTING IN A SILIGURI BASED TEA E-TAILER COMPANY

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Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 27th January, 2016: Siliguri is the undeclared business capital of North Bengal is again proved when the Tata Son’s chairman emeritus Mr. Ratan Tata had decided to invest in a none other than a speciality Tea E-Tailer called Tea Box which is a very new company founded on 2012. This has been disclosed by the CEO Mr. Kaushal Dugar to a national tech portal. Though it’s not new for Mr. Tata has it is turned to be the 5th investment of him in 2016 itself. Earlier he has been investing profoundly in 2015 in some promising companies. However, for the Siligurians it’s a delight as the name of Tea Box is associated with the city. According to the company officials, the investment money would be used in the company’s expansion in the International platform. The CEO also informed the portal “Ratan Tata’s direct guidance and experience in the tea industry will surely help us grow as the first global premium tea brand from India,” Teabox said it will use the money mainly to expand its global footprint. The company currently exports tea to 93 countries and aims to cross 100 soon. “Ratan Tata’s direct guidance and experience in the tea industry will surely help us grow as the first global premium tea brand from India,” Dugar said. Basically, Teabox  is founded by Kaushal Dugar which provides an online platform through which it ships fresh Indian tea to customers globally. It sources premium tea directly from the plantations in Darjeeling, Assam and Nepal. Teabox has raised $6 million in Series A funding led by a venture capitalist firm from Singapore called JAFCO Asia. Apart from this, there are investors like Accel Partners, along with Keystone Group LP and Dragoneer Investment Group.

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By Arunangshu Maitra (TNI Falakata)

Webdesk, TNI Falakata, 26th January, 2016: Coach Behar Panchanan Verma University registrar, Dev Kumar Mukherjee inaugurated the diamond jubilee celebration of Falakata Bhutani Ghat High School. The attending guests were Falakata MLA Anil Adhikari, Hirendranath Bhattacharya (principal, Falakata College), Nirodbaran Roy (ex principal, Falakata High School), Sandhya Biswas (chairperson, Falakata Panchayat Samitee), Jatin Roy (vice chairman) and Jogesh Chandra (ex headmaster, Falakata Bhutani Ghat High School) among other dignitaries. The present headmaster, Matilal Das told that the diamond jubilee celebrations commenced today and would last for one whole year. The celebrations would end in December amidst festivities. Everyone is cordially invited and cooperation from all quarters is hoped.

Edited By: Jonali Karmakar (TNI Siliguri)
Photo: Arunangshu Maitra (TNI)

BIDHAN SPORTING MANAGED TO WIN IN SILIGURI CRICKET LEAGUE

By Shekhar Patra (TNI Siliguri) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 26th January, 2016: In the round robin 1st Division Cricket League of Siliguri Mahakuma Krira Parishad at Kanchanjangha Stadium between Bidhan Sporting Club (BSC) and Narendra Nath Club (NNC).  Bidhan Sporting won the toss and elected to bat first.  BSC made 240 runs in 36.2 overs after losing all of their 10 wickets. However, the score could not be overcome by NNC and thus NNC lost the match. NNC could only manage 144 runs in 39.4 over before losing all of their wickets. Any of the batsmen could not stand upright against the deft bowling of Bidhan Sporting here today. BSC thus won the match by 96 runs. Interestingly, both the teams survived in exactly 39.4 over precisely.

Photo: Shekhar Patra (TNI)

40TH KOLKATA INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR INAUGURATED BY CHIEF MINISTER

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 26th January, 2016: The Kolkata International Book Fair is all set on the Milan Mela Ground for its 40thjourney. The focal theme this year being Bolivia marks the 50 years of Che Guevara’s struggle against imperialism. Vietnam will be seen participating as the Guest of Honor this time to celebrate their 40th anniversary of Vietnam War. Spain will be the special participant this year for its 60 years of diplomatic relationship with India. The book Fair was inaugurated with number of dignitaries and authors.  Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Authoress Magela Baudoin, Author Nirendranath Chakraborty, Director of guild Mr. Sudhangshu Dey and other notable personalities were present to glorify the evening. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s 10 books were launched in this ceremony which includes Amar Pahar, Kathanjali, Biswa Bangla and many others. CESC Sahitya Sanman was given to felicitate author Nirendranath Chakraborty on this occasion. The fair will continue from 27th of January till 7th February, from 11am till 8pm.

By: R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)
Photo: Priyanka Ghosh Dastidar (INT – Kolkata)

FROM NOW, NO ANTIBIOTICS FOR COMMON COUGH & COLD

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Webdesk, TNI New Delhi, 25th January, 2016: In a straight way decision the premier medical body IMA have given a directive to its members (doctors) prohibiting prescribing antibiotics for the adults for common ARTI (Acute Respiratory Tract Infections). These included common cold, bronchitis, sore throat or sinus infections. According to the president of IMA, Dr. S. S. Agarwal, “Over 50 percent of antibiotic prescriptions may be unnecessary or inappropriate in the outpatient setting,”. Antibiotic resistance is a big problem in Indian Medical scenario and maximum of them are caused by the inappropriate use of antibiotics for ARTI, he added. Alternatively, the IMA has issued a set of guidelines according to which doctors should communicate to their patients suffering from a common cold that symptoms can last up to two weeks. Further according to the directives antibiotics can only be prescribed if the symptoms last 10 days till then cough suppressants, expectorants, antihistamines, decongestants and beta-agonists may be prescribed. In continuation, the directives also said that the antibiotics should be prescribed for a sore throat only if a strep test confirms streptococcal pharyngitis.

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‘CHORABALI’ MUSIC ALBUM LAUNCHED IN KOLKATA

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 25th January, 2016: The Bengali film documentary director Subhrajit Mitra launched his upcoming project Chorabali’s music album. One of the versatile singer Dibyendu Mukherjee known for his Tollywood film ‘Jaatishwar’ is the music director of the film. The movie is set in the backdrop of North Kolkata with its British Raj charm, the story is a classic thriller. “The music gets the most crucial part of the movie”, said one of the cast Locket Chatterjee. The retro pallette chorabali incites its viewers to stick to the interface plot. The cast of the movie are George Baker, Barun Chandra, Locket Chatterjee, June Maliah, Dipanjan Basak, Shataj Figar, Malabika Banerjee, Mou Baidya, Tanushree Chakrabarty, Sanadarshi Dutta, Sayani Datta.

Edited By: T. Deepika (TNI Siliguri)
Photo: Puja Sahni (INT – Kolkata)

BICENTENARY ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS AT HINDU SCHOOL, KOLKATA

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 25th January, 2016: Hindu School, Kolkata one of the most prestigious schools of India celebrated its bicentenary on 20th of Jan. The program was inaugurated by Sri Biman  Bandhopadhyaya, Speaker of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha and the chief guest Brahmachari Mural Bhai, the trustee of Dakshineshwar Ramkrishna Sangha Adyapith. The ceremony was initiated by syllabus committee chairman Avik Mazumdar enlighting the lamp followed by the Rabindra sangeet and the cultural performance by the school students. Some of the notable alumni were also present at the ceremony felicitating the principal Shyamnarayan Bandhopadhay. The other guest panelist included Justice Samaresh Banerjee, IMAS Nirmal Manjhi and others.

Edited By: T. Deepika (TNI Siliguri)
Photo: Puja Sahni (INT – Kolkata)

ACTOR ARJUN CHAKRABARTY ADDS ANOTHER FEATHER TO HIS HAT

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 25th January, 2016: Starmark South City Mall, Kolkata in affiliation with Patra Bharati launched Arjun Chakrabarty’s book of poems ‘Arjuner Aw Kobita’ in the presence of renowned writer Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay, Jogen Chawdhury, Rachana Banerjee and Srijato. Arjun’s poem is a collection of 101 poems. He ventilated his memories from the past, life, love and passion. In his early days, Arjun Chakrabarty worked in various sectors from working as a assistant lyricist for Gulzar to acting in some critically acclaimed Hindi and Bengali films like ‘Kori diye kinlam’. He also recited one of his poem in the book launch at starmark. Arjun won a lot of respect for his solemnness from the audience. All the readers out there in the city are eagerly waiting for the book published by Patra Bharati and will be available in the stalls soon.

Edited By: T. Deepika (TNI Siliguri)
Photo: Puja Sahni (INT – Kolkata)

‘SABUJ SATHI’ DISTRIBUTION JAM LOCKED SILIGURI, THE WHOLE DAY

D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 25th January, 2016: The entire city was today jam locked, courtesy the miscommunication of the organizers in the distribution of “Sabuj Sathi” cycles to the Class 10, Class 11 & 12 of Siliguri city schools. According to the students they were told from the school authorities that they will be given the cycles today but at around 11 am they came to know that cycles will be given to them some days later. This enraged them and scuffle resulted immediately. The student’s road blocked the main roads of Siliguri creating jams everywhere in Siliguri. The intensity of the jam reached even in the far Noukaghat more road towards NBMC&H stopping the emergency ambulances. Students protested mainly not because of the delay but to lose an important preparation day for the nearing exams like Madhyamik and Higher Secondary in February. Most of the Head Masters of the schools expressed their helplessness in the issue. Later police intervened and the blockades were removed by the students.

Photo: D. Prasun (TNI)

ARMY BOMBING DRILL PANICKED THE SILIGURIANS

By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 25th January, 2016: Sudden bomb scare among the residents of Siliguri especially for the residents of Shantinagar, Suryanagar, Sukantanagar, Bharatnagar and nearby places made them ran out of their homes around 6 pm in the evening today. According to the residents of these places the buildings shook like earthquake and suddenly there was a big boom sound. This made them run here there. Mrs. Sankari Paul ran and fell on the road injuring her with some scratches was taken to a private clinic in Suryanagar. Due to the rise in the earthquake frequency in this region, Siligurians runs in every small shake smelling earthquake. It was later learnt that the sound came from a routine demolition at Teesta Bed by the army firing range. However, the source of the earth shake is still unknown.

Photo: File photo of Ranatu Ghatak (Siliguri)

FAMOUS WRITER “CHOMONG LAMA” IS NO MORE

By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri) ~ Edited by D. Prasun (Pradiptamay Saha)

Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 25th January, 2016: Famous veteran writer of North Bengal Mr. Bijay Ghosh or better known as Chomong Lama breadth his last yesterday in a private nursing home in Siliguri. He was 91 years of age. Interestingly, few days ago he was being awarded as a ‘Banga Ratna’ award in the Uttar Banga Utsab by the state Government. During his life-time he had earned huge accolades as a Bengali writer from North Bengal, which is very rare in this part of the state. An East Bengalian by birth, he was an ex Tea Garden employee and was passionate about writing in Bengali Literature. Many Novels, Stories of Chomong Lama had gained maximum popularity which made him a household name in North Bengal. Many political and non-political personalities have expressed their respect to his departed soul after they learnt his sad demise.

ASIEWT ALL BENGAL SIT & DRAW COMPETITION HAD HUGE PARTICIPATION IN GARIAHAT

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 24th January, 2016: All Bengal Sit & Draw Competition started today morning i.e. on 24th Jan 2016 with a full swing at the Murlidhar School of Gariahat. ASIEWT has completed its 6 years in the preening of the little artist hidden inside every little one. A crowd of nearly 1200 had participated in the event from schools covering all over the Bengal. The number of contestants is increasing massively every year leading to a huge success of the program. The competition was started at 8.30am which continued till 3.30 pm. As mentioned earlier, the 5 different age groups will have participated in 5 different time slots and the time contained for each group was 1 hr 30 min. It was gratifying for the viewers to see the young hearts indulging with such enthusiasm. The prizes will be given to the winner after a week, however, consolation prizes (medal & books) and a certificate has given to all the participants. Moreover special gift voucher from IFB will be given to the topper of each group. A special gratitude has been given to Shriniketan, Gitanjali, and ASIICE.

Photo: Puja Sahni (INT – Kolkata)

ANOTHER FAILED ATTEMPT OF BAGAN IN TODAY’S DERBY: EB – 1, MB – 1

By Soumya Dasgupta (TNI Kolkata) ~ Edited by R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 23rd January, 2016: After devouring their Mohun Bagan 4-0 in the last CFL derby this season, the 3rd round encounter of the 9th I-league ended 1-1, both the goals being scored in the 2ndhalf of the match. The match being hosted by Mohun Bagan athletic club was flanked by 80000 odd supporters from the either club although did not raise to its Monty of expectations since the Mohun Bagan being the better team couldn’t take the advantage of East Bengal team who lacked the edge on pen and paper. Although the match stated with high expectations from the Mohun Bagan supporters, the East Bengal Team started the match on their toes and grabbed the lion’s share of the possession during the first half. Mohun Bagan defended well with the likes of their new recruit Brazilian Luciano, who took the utmost care of Ranty Martins. Do dong Hyun, the Korean Mid-fielder took some chances but the limelight of the half was the 23-year-old native NE boy Bikash Jairu who tore the field apart with his pinpoint passes, cheetah speed and most importantly, through his perilous corners. The second half started with a bit laid back approach of both the teams until a cross from Bikash Jairu fell in mid-air for Ranty Martins. The talismanic striker did no error in volleying it in the back of the net past the young Bagan goalkeeper Debjit Ghosh who didn’t have much to do in the 68th minute. Bagan pressed the pedal hard after this goal and tried to increase possession. Their hard work did come into effect 10 minutes later when Cornel Glen, the new Bagan recruit this season scored from a Sony Norde Corner through the hands of the East Bengal Goalkeeper T.P.Rehenesh. East Bengal coach did what all it takes to gift a better play on the field although with the absence of key players such as Bernard Mendy and Cavin Lobo, but it is evidently clear that Mohun Bagan lost a golden opportunity to beat their arch-rivals with 4 foreigners and with a half-line that will send chills to all the clubs in this I-league 2015-2016. As it stands now, Mohun Bagan has fetched 7 points from 3 matches whereas East Bengal has 5 from similar outings.

Photo: Soumya Dasgupta (TNI)

ACTOR ABIR INAUGURATES LAURANCE & MAYO STORE AT SALTLAKE, KOLKATA

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 23rd January, 2016: India’s Premium Optical Retailer Lawrence and Mayo opened their 105th door in India at Saltlake, Kolkata. Lawrence and Mayo is known as the only premium and most preferred eyewear brand which started its operation in 1877 from Kolkata. This marked their 8th exclusive outlet in the city. The store was inaugurated by one of the most famous Tollywood Personality Mr. Abir Chatterjee along with the Zonal Head- North & East of Lawrence & Mayo Mr. Suman Anjoy. The store is located at Kwality more of Saltlake Sector-I which arrays a wide variety of frames and sunglasses from international brands like Emporio Armani, Cartier, Silhouette, Mont Blanc etc. Apart from a huge collection of eyewear, the new store will also have contact lens lounge and digital ophthalmic lens lounge offering optimum vision screening and first of its kind eye care services.

Photo: Priyanka Ghosh Dastidar (INT – Kolkata)

NORTH BENGAL FIRST OPEN CORRECTIONAL HOME INAUGURATED AT RAIGANJ

By Partha Chatterjee (TNI Raigunj) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Raigunj, 23rd January, 2016: For the life term sentence convicts North Bengal now has got its own Open Correctional Home here in Raiganj. Today it was inaugurated officially by the MIC Jail Administration Mr. Haider Ali Safi. Apart from the MIC the other dignitaries present were ADG IG Mr. Arun Kumar Gupta, IG Mr. Kalyan Pramanik, District Magistrate Mr. Randhir Kumar, District Police Super Mr. Amit Kumar Bharat Rathod etc. The new building is made by renovating the old Housing complex of the Departmental Staffs in the compound. The MIC told to the press that at least 30 inmates can be accommodated in this centre simultaneously. This is the third such correctional home in the state after Lalgola and Durgapur. MIC further clarified that the selection of the inmates in this special centre would be decided by a selection committee. The speciality of this correctional home is that the inmates would get a chance to earn for themselves by indulging themselves in some productive works. However, everyday food would be provided by the Department itself.

BOOK ON SUCHITRA SEN LAUNCHED AT KOLKATA

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 23rd January, 2016: Suchitra Sen mesmerized audiences for years with her classic acting poise in varied roles, before withdrawing from the public gaze and refusing to emerge in the limelight in the last years of her life. Shoma A. Chatterji, well-known film critic, journalist and author has penned down this nuanced biography that unveils the many dimensions of Suchitra Sen persona. The book “Suchitra Sen: The legend and the Enigma” was launched on 20th January at Starmark outlet of Quest Mall in association with Harper Collins Publishers, India. The book was launched in the auspicious presence of the protagonist’s daughter-cum-MP Smt. Moon Moon Sen as the chief guest of the evening and her grand-daughters actress Raima Sen, Riya Sen. The National Award winning author has sketched the legendary romantic star, her slow, steady metamorphosis into a powerful artist; her working women roles at a time when women were seen as mere appendages to the narrative; and her willful social seclusion which spawned many a conspiracy theory; through her words in this book.

Photo: Priyanka Ghosh Dastidar (INT – Kolkata)

10 PERSONALITIES TO RECEIVE RAMLAL ADHIKARI AWARD ON REPUBLIC DAY

By Rita Das (TNI Siliguri) ~ Edited By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 23rd January, 2016: Ten eminent personalities from various fields of North Bengal will be felicitated with laureate ‘Ramlal Adhikari Smriti Samman 2016′ on the republic day at Milan More, Champasari near Siliguri. The felicitation is given year in memory of late Ramlal Adhikari an eminent literary of Darjeeling who served as professor head of Nepali department of Darjeeling government college since last year. This year ten eminent personalities including Journalist, Social Worker, Environmentalist, Teacher, Dancer, Litterateur, Businessman, and people working on women empowerment and human trafficking. According to the program coordinator, the felicitation programme is organized by a NGO named ‘Bagdogra Paradristhi Society’ (BPS) in association with a private organization of Siliguri. A five-member selection committee decided to felicitate ten personalities who have dedicated their works for the betterment of the society and needy. Rajiv Lochan Adhikari, son of Ramlal Adhikari and president of BPS said, “We have decided to felicitate personalities working for the society and poor people after celebrating my father’s birth anniversary that falls on 31st December. My father being a writer and poet always worked for the deprived people of the society and praised the people working for their benefits.” Ramlal Adhikari (1946-2005) was a gifted writer, poet, dramatist and journalist.

ICOD ULUBERIA, A TRUE ‘WORLD OF JOY’ NEAR KOLKATA

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“The World of Joy”- as defined by them, the member of ICOD family happily has been staying under one roof since 12 years. Inter-religious Centre of Development  situated on the bank of the river Damodar  at around 70 km south-west of Kolkata, 20 km on the left of Uluberia town, and 3 km from Athanno (58) Gate Bus stop, in a large 32 bigha eco-biological land expressing environmental respect, communion and harmony with the whole nature, plants, animals, earth, water and air. ICOD is an Inter Religious Community of Abandoned and Downtrodden committed to established their ‘Right to Home, Right to Education, Right to Good Health, Right to Happy Living, Right to Self Reliance.’ Near about 250-260 inmate staying here at different houses named- Mother Teresa Bhavan (mentally sick unit), Malala Bhavan (orphan girls unit), Tagore Hall(abandoned women unit), Dr. Sen Boys Home. Luis Education Centre is a classroom coaching for school going children of ICOD and nearby villages, Maya Academy is the music school for the girls and boys at ICOD, Vocational Training like- needle-stitching works, tailoring, zori and shiphon embroidery is also being imparted here. ICOD provide simple but healthy meals of the regular crops, vegetables, and spices come from the ICOD farmland to all the inmates from one common kitchen for all the homes. Primary Healthcare Unit- Healing Touch, Physiotherapy Unit, Healthcare on the Wheel (Ambulance under MPLAD Scheme) and Hospitalization completed the healthcare of inmate. Celebrating various occasion, outing, sports, and entertainment has become a part of the inmates for their happy living. Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Fishery, Handicrafts are the source of self-reliance for the inmates. “Under the guidance of socio-spiritual advisor Brother Gaston Dayanand, ICOD has established itself as a unique place filled with Love, Warmth and Harmony by men and women from different castes, creed, religion, with or without the disability, often rejected by their family and society. All of our 200 and more inmates are orphan or destitute and abandoned from their own family. ICOD is their family and a ‘World of Joy”- said one of the Governing Body Member and Spokesperson Mr. Nirmalyo Ghosh. They will celebrate their Annual Day on 24th Jan 2016.

SJC HONORS COACH BHARTI AND CLIMBER KUSHAN THROUGH THE CHIEF MINISTER

By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 22nd January, 2016: Siliguri Journalist Club conducted Kanchenjungha Award has been conferred to the famous table tennis coach Smt. Bharti Ghosh and Kushan Sherpa. Both awardees received the prize from the Honorable Chief Minister of West Bengal Smt. Mamata Banerjee at the dais of the inauguration of Bengal Safari here in Siliguri. The awards were presented just after the inauguration of the Safari Park. It should be mentioned that though TT Coach Smt. Bharti Ghosh had many laurels but this kind of big award is one of a kind for her. She didn’t fail to thank SJC for the gesture and had said that her responsibility towards table tennis has increased further. On the other hand, Kushan Sherpa had thanked the members of SJC for this honour.

Photo: Siliguri Journalist Club

FBB FEMINA MISS INDIA KOLKATA 2016 WINNERS LEAVE FOR THE FINALE AT MUMBAI

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 21st January, 2016: Fbb Femina Miss India Pageant 2016 took off for Mumbai along with its top 3 finalists from its Kolkata Regional Final from Swissotel Kolkata on January 14th. Rajkanya Baruah of Guwahati wore the prestigious crown of this credible beauty pageant as the winner of fbb Femina Miss India Kolkata 2016 and got her direct entry to the Grand Finale of fbb Femina Miss India 2016. Susmita Roy crowned by Churni Ganguly as 1st Runner up and Adya Niraj made her place to Mumbai finale as the 2nd Runner-up. The evening witnessed the Finale judged by Koel Mallick, Churni Ganguly, Manjari Agarwal Fashion Designers Dev and Nil. The live concert of Singer Usha Uthup raised the energy of the contestants and along with Shibani Dandekar-Punit Pathak electrified the stage with their Bollywood performances. The 14 contestants who were shortlisted over 100 aspirants presented fine charm and poise after going through intense grooming and rigorous training over 4days.

Edited By: T. Deepika (TNI Siliguri)
Photo: Priyanka Ghosh Dastidar (INT – Kolkata)

ACTOR TURNED AUTHOR NANDANA DEV SEN LAUNCHES HER FIRST CHILDREN BOOK

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 21st January, 2016: Award-winning actor Nandana Dev Sen, who is also known as child-rights activist launched her storybook Mambi and the Forest Fire at Starmark in association with Puffin Books at South City Outlet on 14th January 2016. The writer started the book launching program with a brief introduction to her characters of the story and a video to capture more attention of the several children present for the occasion. The children were divided into groups for further activities and games. The interactive session and fun games made the event successful. The storybook was about a little monkey Mambi and her crow friend Koko and Turtle friend Tonga. The book is a piece of beautifully told a tale and charming artwork that goes through the adventurous life of jungle animals, which is priced at Rs. 270/-.

Edited by: T.  Deepika (TNI Siliguri)
Photo: Priyanka Ghosh Dastidar (INT – Kolkata)

SECOND NATIONAL SKILLS CONVOCATION 2016 AT KOLKATA

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 21st January, 2016: Globsyn Skills, a Joint Venture between Globsyn Group and National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), organized the Second National Skills Convocation on 16th January at Kala Mandir. The Chief Guest was Shri Ujjal Biswas, Hon’ble Minister In-charge for Technical Education and Training, Government of West Bengal. Globsyn Skills is Eastern India’s largest skill development organization. The Convocation saw the achievements of 1100+ trainees, who had been part of Globsyn’s Skills’ development programmes nationally in Banking, Tourism & Hospitality, Plumbing, Beauty & Wellness and IT/ITeS among others, being acknowledged through the award of certificates. The participants in Globsyn Skills’ CSR programs, who were trained in Basic Computing and C Programming, were also recognized along with the other trainees. Mr. Rahul Dasgupta, Managing Director, Globsyn Skills said ““In line with our Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi’s vision of Skill India and his mandate of making vocational skills inspirational, Globsyn Skills organizes the National Skills Convocation every year.”

Edited By: T. Deepika (TNI Siliguri)
Photo: Priyanka Ghosh Dastidar (INT – Kolkata)

MAHANANDA SPORTING WINS BIG IN SILIGURI CRICKET LEAGUE

By Shekhar Patra (TNI Siliguri) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 20th January, 2016: In the 1st Division cricket league of Siliguri Mahakuma Krira Parishad today at Kanchenjunga stadium there was a match between NRI and Mahananda Sporting Club of Siliguri. NRI won the toss and elected to field first.  Mahananda scored 151 runs in 29 over losing 6 wickets against a lackluster bowling attack of NRI. As expected for chasing the target of 152 runs NRI scored only a meager 85 runs in 29 overs after losing 8 wickets. Mahananda Sporting won the match by 66 runs and 2 wickets.

Photo: Shekhar Patra (TNI)

MONETARY SUPPORT FOR THE BOARD EXAMINEES FROM CLOSED TEA GARDENS

By Atish Sen (TNI Banarhat) ~ Edited By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Banarhat, 19th January, 2016: ABPTA today came up with two camps in two closed tea gardens of Redbank and Surendranagar TGs. In the camps Rs. 500/- was given to each of the 60 Madhayamik and Higher Secondary aspirants from the tea gardens areas by two teachers from Jadavpur University. Apart from this, the secretary of ABPTA Mr. Biplab Jha said that this monetary support was given to bear the expenses for stationeries and transportation during the examination.

Photo: Atish Sen (TNI)

TEA WORKER ATTACKED BY LEOPARD IN BROAD DAY LIGHT AT BANARHAT

By Atish Sen (TNI Banarhat) ~ Edited By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Banarhat, 19th January, 2016: In a wild leopard attack a woman tea worker was injured today at Gendrapara Tea Garden’s 12 No. section. It is reported that during noon hours when Pyara Koya (32) was working a wild leopard attacked her. She was initially treated in the PHC of the Garden later she was transferred to Banarhat PHC. After first aid she was let out. However, the worker will be reimbursed by the forest department, which was reported by the Binnaguri beat ranger Mr. Dilip Das Choudhury.

JALPAIGURI HOUSEWIVES UNITE FOR RELIEF DISTRIBUTION IN DOOARS TEA GARDENS

By Gargi Deb (TNI Jalpaiguri) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Jalpaiguri, 17th January, 2016: The Jalpaiguri Housewives today came out of their homes and went straight to stand beside the tea workers of the closed tea gardens of Dooars. This has been done under a purely nonpolitical organization called “Mohila Kau Jon” originated from Rajbaripara of Jalpaiguri. To the surprise of the people of the locality, the women accumulated items like 250 blankets, edible oil, salt, turmeric, sugar, pulses, soyabean etc. The items were packed in a full Panjab trucks for transportation. Kalpana Roy told TNI that they had done their ground work for this purpose and done a pilot survey of this program. She also informed that all the items were procured by collecting subscription from the locality households of Jalpaiguri. It a great step on behalf of the women from Jalpaiguri especially the homemakers, who were indicated as couch potatoes addicted to the Bong Teleserials in the society.

Photo: Gargi Deb (TNI)

138TH AGM OF DBITA HELD AT BINNAGURI YESTERDAY

By Atish Sen (Banarhat) ~ Edited By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Banarhat 17th January, 2016: Yesterday at the Central Dooars Club 138th AGM of DBITA was held. In the AGM, various issues were discussed like the problem of discrepancy in the implementation of Panchayati System in the Tea Gardens, problems of flourishing the Tea Tourism etc. The meeting was attended by the Chairman of DBITA Sanjay Kumar Ghai, ITA West Bengal region chairman Mr. Tapan Kumar Choudhuri, the General Secretary of ITA Mr. Arijit Raha, the secretary of DBITA Mr. Sumanta Guha Thakurata and others. The main issue which was highly emphasized was the problem of the administrative policies which are not in accordance with the ground realities. Mr. Tapan Kumar Choudhuri raised the issues that if the problems of the Tea Garden growth is not addressed thoroughly policy wise then the Tea would vanish from the concept of PM Modi’s “Chai Pe Charcha”.

Photo: Atish Sen (TNI)

SUSPECTED NEPAL MAOIST ARRESTED FROM KHARIBARI, NEAR SILIGURI

By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 16th January, 2016: In big success today Kharibari Police arrested a suspected Maoist leader from Nepal named Rajeshwar Limbu in Kharibari near Siliguri. He has been arrested yesterday night in front of a hotel located in the New Market area coming within Indo-Nepal border. A bike and 900gm Hashish was also recovered from him. After detailed interrogation, it is learnt that he has conducted several secret meetings in Siliguri recently. He also said that he is the son of a retired British Gorkha Ex-service person. He was in charge of 12 villages of Nepal under the banner of Nepal Yuva Maoist organization. He is also facing many cases in Nepal. He has been produced in the Siliguri Sub-divisional Court and based on the Judge’s instruction he is taken under Police remand for 4 days.

PALAMOU ADMINISTRATION SHUTS DOWN ANALOGUE CABLE TV TRANSMISSION

By Kalyan Kumar (TNI Ranchi) ~ Edited by D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Ranchi, 16th January, 2016: Analogue channels of Medininagar has been closed from yesterday. Not a single household having the analogue connection will now able to view TV programs if they are not going to install the set-top boxes in their TV Sets. The order has been carried out by a directive from the Palamou District Administration. The District Administration has ordered to stop all analogue Cable TV transmissions including local Cable TV Channels. According to TRAI regulations, all the MSOs need to shut down their Analogue operations from January 1st, 2016. However, most of the MSO’s is found to still continue to keep their analog operations open after the cutoff date. The Additional Collector cum Nodal Officer Mr. Mohit Mukti Manjar has directed not to transmit programs in analogue mode to the MSOs. Failing which strict action will be taken against the MSO’s. Apart from this, there are complaints coming in against the MSOs of the area that the MSO supplied Set top boxes are costing Rs. 1000/- which much higher than the ones found in the market.

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HUNDREDS OF TORTOISE DIE IN MAYURAKSHI RIVER SOON AFTER RELEASE

By Kalyan Kumar (TNI Ranchi) ~ Edited By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Ranchi, 15th January, 2016: A huge haul of smuggled tortoises were found dead in Mayurakshi river today just after the release by the Forest Department. Internal sources say that the death toll would be in hundreds. According to the forest department, Dumka Police on 11th January had seized a truck with around 3500 smuggled tortoises heading towards West Bengal from UP. Soon after the recovery the tortoise were found in an inhospitable condition and thus they were immediately released at Mayurakshi River, however, the tortoises could not bear the earlier stress and had died. A departmental investigation had already started to access the cause of the death of such a large quantity of tortoises.

SEVEN ARRESTED IN RANINAGAR SCHOOL VIOLENCE AT JALPAIGURI

By A. Maitra (TNI) ~ Edited By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Jalpaiguri, 15th January, 2016: After yesterday’s incident of agitated students beat up police personnel the area remained tensed. At least 6 police personnel got beaten up and was critically injured when the agitated students were agitating in the Raninagar Rabindranath High School near Jalpaiguri yesterday. It was reported that the students were being delayed to provide them with cycles from a State Government project called Sabuj Sathi Scheme. The students complained that the school authorities were delaying the date of cycle distribution and when they came for the last announced date they found that only 64 cycles were there for the students. This enraged the students and they started agitating by gheraoing the Head Mistress and teachers of the school. The police were called by the school authorities and a commotion started. After a night long combing operation, 7 agitators were arrested. Police also filed cases against 16 more accused of initiating violence against the police.

Photo: A. Maitra (TNI)

YOUTH DIES IN A BIKE-BUS HEAD ON COLLISION AT JALPAIGURI

By Gargi Deb (TNI Jalpaiguri) ~ Edited By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Jalpaiguri, 15th January, 2016: In a gruesome accident between a bus and a bike one person was dead and another injured. It happened today afternoon at Paharpur More of Jalpaiguri town. The victim is identified as Sanjay Roy (21), a resident of Baruapara near Paharpur area. The injured is Manoj Roy. He has been admitted at Jalpaiguri District Hospital and re-transferred to North Bengal Medical College and Hospital. Local sources said that the two youth were riding the bike from Jalpaiguri main town. Suddenly, the bike lost control and banged onto the bus which was coming from the front. Sanjay died on the spot. Police rushed to the spot from Jalpaiguri Kotwali Police station. Sanjay’s body is sent for post mortem. The Bus is being recovered by the police.

Photo: Gargi Deb (TNI)

DOOAR’S SCHOOL OFFERS “PITHA & PAYESH” TO ITS STUDENTS ON POUSH SANKRANTI

By Atish Sen (TNI Banarhat) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Banarhat, 15th January, 2016: Today a special event happened at Banarhat High School. The school was open on Pous Sankranti day also. However, it may not be a very enjoying information for the students but what is enjoying is that the all the students of the school and the teachers today enjoyed an unexpected party of Sankranti Pitha and Payesh. When entire Bengal and Assam is celebrating Poush Sankranti, most of the BPL families have to go half fed courtesy the economic uncertainty going on in this tea belt. The school management today took the initiative to offer the Pitha and Payesh to all the students of the school. The students also had their unbounded happiness after receiving the unexpected gift. While talking to TNI, a teacher of the school Mr. Satyabrata Sengupta said that “We wanted to go beyond the routine corridors and thus offered this event to bring the smile in the faces of the students”. The Head Master Mr. Sukalyan Bhattacharya said “I am just the executing authority of this program everything has been done by the school management committee and the teachers. In the future, we also have some programs for the laborers of the closed tea gardens of Dooars”. In this connection, he also pointed out that the Mid Day meal kitchen is still in an unfinished condition.

Photo: Atish Sen (TNI)

MAHANANDA AARTI PERFORMED IN SILIGURI FOR CLEAN MAHANANDA

By Rita Das (TNI Siliguri) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 14th January, 2016: In an attempt to make the Mahananda Clean a local social association called ‘Bihari Yuva Chetna Manch’ have organized a Nadi Pujan Program in the Lal Mohan Moulik Ghat of Mahananda River in Siliguri led by the president of the organization Mr. Mithilesh Mishra. According to the association, this program will continue in every Purnima tithi. In this program a River Puja was performed along with this in the evening a Mahananda Aarti was also performed by the members in line with the Ganga Aarti performed in Varanasi and Hooghly. The members also have talked with the temple priest to support their cause. Interestingly, there were various projects taken up like Mahananda Action Plan by the Government but the fate of Mahananda remains in the same corridors and day by day the pollution, siltation, encroachment has increased leading to the dangerous eroding of the ecological balance of the place along with Siliguri city.

Photo: Bipin Roy (Siliguri)

SILIGURI COLLEGE NSS UNIT’S WINTER SPECIAL CAMP STARTS

By Rita Das (TNI Siliguri) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 14th January, 2016: NSS Unit IV of Siliguri College, began its Winter Special Camp today by inaugurating a Thalassemia Counseling and Detection camp with the Students of Siliguri Girls High School. A total of 204 blood samples were collected in the camp. The main motive of the NSS Unit IV’s was to make the school Thalassemia free. The Counselor Dr. Maitrayee Sen, from North Bengal Medical College, informed that this is the first time in Siliguri that this sort of camp is organized and she also expressed her thanks to Dr. Vidyawati Agarwala, the Programme Officer of NSS Unit for taking this initiative. Shortly, the NSS unit is also going to organize an Eye check up camp in the Old Aged home called Apna Ghar and a ‘Shrama Dan’ program will also be organized at Simulguri Village.

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SILIGURI YOUTH DUPED RS 9K BY HACKERS USING ONLINE SHOPPING SITE

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Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 14th January, 2016: In a surprising and alarming incident in Siliguri a youth lost, at least, Rs. 9000/- in the process of returning a damaged product to a Gurgaon-based Online store. The youth, himself a computer professional didn’t suspect any unnatural move by the hackers of his bank account and he lost his money without a hint of getting duped. Such was the preparation of the hackers. The youth a resident of Bidya Chakra Colony of Ward No. 44, Siliguri bought a garment from an online garment selling site in COD payment system. After he received the consignment he found some discrepancy in the product. So he opted to return the product and also intimated the company by mail. The next day he received a call from an unknown number by a male voice, where the person claimed himself customer attendant of the site. The person wanted the Bank Account Number and also the ATM card number from the youth by saying that the company will refund the money in the concerned account. The youth readily gave the Bank account number and also the ATM Card number. To his surprise within a split second Rs. 4500/- was deducted from his bank while the youth was talking to the person on the phone. The youth enquired about the deduction. The attendant on the phone avoided and disconnected the call. To the surprise of the youth again Rs. 4500/- was deducted from his account. Sniffing problem, the youth immediately called his bank and blocked his card. Later, a complaint was filed by the youth giving all the details to the Siliguri Cyber Crime Police Station. Currently, the case is under investigation.

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LAWN BOWLS TOURNAMENT TO COMMENCE THIS JANUARY IN KOLKATA

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 13th January, 2016: The 32nd RCGC Merchants Cup Lawn Bowls Tournament 2016 has attracted more than 75 teams from around 70 corporate houses starting 14th January. The event is a month long tournament ending on 13th February. The game is gaining popularity every year. This being the only Bowling Game of International standard in India, the Calcuttans are getting attracted to this game. The tournament is majorly supported by the real-estate brand Green Tech city. Koneenica Banerjee is the Brand Ambassador. Actor Dev along with Koneenica Banerjee will be present on the inauguration day. Lawn Bowls which is played in around 40 countries started in England and was introduced by the British expatriates in India. RCGC Lawn Bowls Greens started way back in the year 1886-87. This is the 130th year of bowling at the present premises and also could be one of the oldest active greens in the world. Players of our club also represent West Bengal in the national games. In the last concluded Kerala National Games we have contributed 7 medals to the Bengal kitty which includes 2 gold medals, 1 silver and 4 bronze for Bengal. The idea of holding The Merchant Cup is to make this game popular.

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SHEENA BORA MURDER CASE IN CINEMA: POSTER LAUNCHED

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 13th January, 2016: Even as the nation keeps talking about the sensational Sheena Bora murder case, Macneill Engineering Pvt. Ltd. has undertaken a fictional adaptation “Dark Chocolate” directed by Agnidev Chatterjee. According to the maker of the film, the film has taken a fictional route to sketch the life and times of femme fatale Indrani Mukherjea without moralizing sermonizing or being didactic. The movie is to be seen as a work of art and fiction made to entertain and also narrate one of the darkest episodes of modern times. The lure for lucre is one of the poignant themes in the movie while the malice behind the beauty underlines the spine-chilling depiction. The film is shot in Hindi, English and Bengali like any urban setup. “This is one of the most shocking and diabolical crimes of our times. I have done a lot of research on the case and while I have tried to remain true to most of the case some parts have been fictionalized to keep the element of wonder alive in the movie till the very end,” said director Agnidev Chatterjee. Mahima Choudhury plays Ishani inspired by the character of Indrani Mukherjea, while Riya Sen plays Rina Bardhan inspired by Sheena Bora. Mumtaz Sorcar, Indrashis Roy, Kaushik Sen, Biswajit Chakroborty, Sudip Mukherjee, Shataf Figar, Rajesh Sharma, Rwik Basu among others play other important characters in the movie.

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FOUR NEW POLICE STATIONS PROPOSED BY SILIGURI POLICE COMMISSIONERATE

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Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 13th January, 2016: Salbari Police Outpost may become a full fledged a police station along with NJP Police outpost, Ashigarh Police Outpost and Ambari Police outpost. This is based on the recommendation done by Siliguri Police Commissionerate to the Government of West Bengal. Apart from this there would be a Women police barrack at Matigara. Moreover, there would be more other projects in the pipeline for Siliguri Police Commissionerate. This has been declared by the Siliguri Police Commissioner Mr. Manoj Verma while speaking to the press during the inauguration of a Women’s waiting room at NJP Police outpost.

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‘BASTUSHAAP’ AUDIO CD LAUNCHED IN KOLKATA

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 13th January, 2016: Greentouch Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. & Lundia Group, today, launched the audio CD of their forthcoming movie, “Bastushaap”, starring Parambrata Chattapadhyay, Abir Chatterjee, Raima Sen, Kaushik Ganguly & Churni Ganguly. Directed by Kaushik Ganguly, music by Indradeep Dasgupta was released under the label of Amra Music. The movie Bastushaap revolves around the concept of Vaastu and how it affects the relationship & bonding between persons. Baastushaap has five songs,  “Gache Gache Rod Jhilmil Lege Jay” has been sung by Bonnie Chakraborty, “Raja Ranir Bhalo Hok” by Shreya Ghosal, the male version of “Tomake Chuye Dilam” has been sung by Arijit Singh and female version has been sung by Shreya Ghosal & “Tomar to Golpo Bola Kaj” by Rupkumar Bagchi. The song “Gache Gache Rod Jhilmil Lege Jay” & “Amar to Golpo Bola Kaj” has been written by Kaushik Ganguly and “Raja Ranir Bhalo Hok” & “Tomake Chuye Dilam” has been penned by Srijato.

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GARKNIT-X 2016 EXHIBITION SUCCESSFULLY CONCLUDED AT KOLKATA

By Swarnali Goswami (TNI Kolkata) ~ Edited By T. Deepika (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 13th January, 2016: The 13th Garknit-X completed its 3 days exhibition at Science City ground, Kolkata. The exhibition which started from the 8th January tried to grab the attention of the visitors in showcasing the technology behind the garment & leather industry of Bengal. From the organisers, it’s also learnt that the Government is keen to promote the textile industry sector tremendously. The exhibition was organised by Vardaan Events Pvt. Ltd.

Items like Apparel, Leather, Knitting & Jute Technology, Sewing, Cutting, Finishing, Embroidery, Fusing, Laundry, Printing, Knitting Machines, Fabrics trimming & embellishment, Dyes & Chemicals, Software, CAD CAM, Print & Packing, Laboratory, Support Services, Trade Publications and many more were exhibited. According to one of the participant Ms. Sutil Sukla “We are the manufacturer of the textile product. This is an excellent platform to interact with the customers directly by showing up our manufacturing product along with the technology we use for processing”. Another exhibitor Ms. Sangeeta told TNI that, “We are here to display the technology along with our leather products for the visitors in this exhibition”.

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NEROLAC BRINGS ITS BRAND AMBASSADOR SRK TO KOLKATA

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 12th January, 2016: Kansai Nerolac Paints Ltd (KNPL), have launched a unique coffee table book, ‘Shades of Bengal’ to commemorate their deep rooted connection with Bengal, a state soaked in rich tradition, culture and spirituality. Bollywood superstar Mr. Shah Rukh Khan, along with Mr. Ram Mehrotra, VP Sales and Marketing, Decorative Paints, Kansai Nerolac Paints Limited, unveiled the book and introduced Nerolac Pearls Emulsion Paint on Monday, 11th January 2016 at a glittering ceremony in Kolkata. ‘Shades of Bengal’ is an ode to the vibrant and varied colours of humanity reflected in the rich cultural heritage of Bengal. This coffee table book celebrates the spirit of Bengal from its landscape and festivals to the heart of it all – its people. Commenting on the launch of ‘Shades of Bengal’, Brand Ambassador and Bollywood superstar Mr. Shah Rukh Khan said, “My love for Bengal is a well-known fact. The vibrant spirit of this city always amazes and inspires me to keep coming back for more. I am pleased that Nerolac, a brand that I have been associated with shares my love of the city and has decided to make me a part of this celebration of the spirit of Bengal. Mr. Ram Mehrotra, VP Sales and Marketing, Decorative Paints, Kansai Nerolac Paints Limited said, “Nerolac’s association with West Bengal dates back many decades and it continues to be an important market for us. Our endeavour has always been to introduce products that celebrate the spirit of the state and its people.

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IGNOU SILIGURI OBSERVED 153RD BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri) ~ Edited By D.  Prasun (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 12th January, 2016: IGNOU Regional Centre Siliguri celebrated the 153rd Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda on today at the Regional Centre premises. On this occasion, Prof. Raghunath Ghosh, former Professor of Philosophy, University of North Bengal was the ‘Chief Guest’ Prof. Raghunath Ghosh spoke on ‘Relevance of Swami Vivekananda’s Teachings in Modern India’. At the outset, Dr. Biswajit Bhowmik, Regional Director welcomed all the guests, students, Academic Counselors, Coordinators, Asstt. Coordinators of IGNOU Study Centres. Sh. Ashoke Barua, Asstt. Registrar, IGNOU proposed the vote of thanks.

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CAVIN KARE’S GREEN TRENDS UNISEX SALON OPENS ITS 299TH OUTLET IN KOLKATA

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 12th January, 2016: Green Trends unisex Hair & Style Salon from the house of Cavin Kare Pvt. Ltd.’s beauty salon division Trends in Vogue today launched its 299th outlet at Kalikapur, Kolkata. Renowned television actress Ms. Sreetoma Bhattacharya graced the occasion and lighted the traditional lamp 6in the presence of the other dignitaries. The popular salon brand is commonly known for providing styling services at affordable price for the entire family currently has numerous salons located across the country.  Speaking about the launch, Mr. Deepak Praveen, COO, Green Trends Unisex Hair & Style Salon said, “This salon would establish benchmarks in quality and service levels and would also be consistent with beauty services offered at our salons across the country.”

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‘VIVEK CHETNA UTSAV’ ORGANIZED AT BANARHAT

By Atish Sen (TNI Banarhat) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Banarhat, 12th January, 2016: Today at Banarhat High School the Dhupguri Block Students Youth Festival Committee organized “Vivek Chetna Utsav 2015-16″ under the aegis of the Department of Youth Affairs, GOWB. In this occasion, students and teachers of different schools of Banarhat participated in a rally organized in this occasion. Later in the day, an interactive session about Swami Vivekananda was also organized. The personnel participated in the program was Swami Tadrupananda Maharaj of Nathuhat Ramkrishna Sevashrama. The Block Youth Officer Smt. Jayanti Roy said that various events were organized in the Block level like quiz, sit & draw competition, women football tournament etc.

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REVIEW: BHOOKH – THE MYSTERY, IS TRULY CREATING HUNGER FOR THE AUDIENCES

Film: Bhookh – The Mystery (Hindi)
Director: Kiran Kundu
Cast: Sunny, Gautam, Manoj, Tikam and others
Rating:  ♦♦♦

Yes! After many days of the lull here comes a Hindi flicker, a complete full-scale Hindi Feature Film from North Bengal. Yes, you heard it right. It’s Hindi and we can’t tell whether it’s the first Hindi feature film from this region or not because many of the releases go unnoticed even from the viewers. That’s the state of filmmaking here in this region. That’s the promotions made for that production made from here. Many local dialects (local languages) films were created over the last 15 years and almost all of those gone into oblivion soon after their release. Mind it, we are talking about Censor Board recognized films and not those which were released in CDs or DVDs and shown in illegal shanty video halls throughout North Bengal. Talking about this film ‘Bhookh – the mystery’ we can say it’s a brilliantly executed project and not merely a good attempt. We should not talk about the hardships which the director have gone through while accumulating non-professional resources like supporting artists, technicians, absence of low-cost equipment or the hostile red tapism. We also should not talk about how the unit managed such a full-length 2-hour thriller with such a shoestring budget of Rs. 25 lakhs. Above all, we should not talk about the passion, dedication and enthusiasm of the film crew, artist and the makers despite knowing how the market is going to behave with post-release. However, we are here to tell you something in black and white. If we go by the words of Director Kiran (the producer and director of the film) “It’s a film not to prove ourselves but to establish the long-standing thought “Kabhi yahaan bhi film industry hoga”. From the point of view of the script, the film goes a little slow as far as the editing is concerned. However, the momentum catches up just before the intermission. Since the film has no songs so the background music scores attention. The cinematic manipulations were excellently portrayed by Sujay (Cinematographer). The only single song “Lamha Lamha”, which is evident that it has been planted into giving a melodic relief between the blood hungry cannibalism is no doubt can challenge a run for the money for even the Tollywood music directors.

Bhookh scores down heavily in the dubbing section, which is evident that the spoken words are of some amateur voice over artists, who could not come out of their mother tongue accent. The chasing sequence, the camaraderie of the characters, the frame by frame transition is highly appreciable. All the credit goes to Director Kiran. Debutant Sunny, the lead character was up in his toe to deliver the best in the film. So is the villain Gautam Deb (Not the minister). One of the biggest advantages of the film is that, once the viewers sit to see the film they will remain screwed till the last scene. That is the success of the makers of Bhookh – The Mystery. It’s truly a mystery to say why did you attempt and how did it win the battle. Overall, a good execution is done in Bhookh. Expecting more to come from the makers.

FBB FEMINA MISS INDIA 2016 RECEIVES OVERWHELMING RESPONSE AT KOLKATA

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 11th January, 2016: The Audition of fbb Femina Miss India Kolkata 2016 wrapped up with infinite oomph and glamour at Kolkata on January 10. The audition held at The Park, Kolkata; received an overwhelming response from the city with participation from over 100 young girls competing for the Crown. 14 girls were selected from them, who will be competing against each other for the title of fbb Femina Miss India Kolkata 2016 on January 14 at Swissotel, Kolkata. Rajkanya from Guwahati, a participant of the 100 girls from Kolkata, won the fbb Wild Card Entry of the Miss India Contest to be held on March in Mumbai. The audition was judged by the eminent personalities from the Glamour Industry like Designers Komal Sood and Jaya Misraand the stiff competition made their job tough. The Kolkata finalists will be seen being trained by the industry experts for the next few days to compete for the title at the Kolkata Finale. The winner of fbb Femina Miss India Kolkata 2016 will be fast tracked to the finale of fbb Femina Miss India 2016. Fbb is the Title partner for the pageant and Ruparel Reality is the Powered by the partner. The pageant is in association with Talent partner Mobstar. This year, the fbb Femina Miss India  2016 pageant traverses across 18 cities namely Hyderabad, Lucknow, Jaipur, Indore, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Ahmedabad, Goa, Nagpur, Pune, Guwahati, Bhubaneswar, Bhopal and Chennai with regional finals in Delhi, Bangalore and Kolkata. This all culminates into the final round of audition in Mumbai.

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FFACE CALENDER 2016 LAUNCHED ITS THIRD EDITION

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 11th January, 2016: “FFACE” (Fame Fashion and Creative Excellence) Calendar, the concept initiated 2 years before to provide a platform to the aspiring talents in the glamour industry, witnessed the grand launch of its third edition themed on 100 years of Bangla Cinema on 9th January at Main Banquets, The Park. Bangla Cinema has gone through lots of upheavals and changes and it has become a culture of Bengal itself. On this auspicious day, FFACE Calendar celebrated the glorious journey of 100years of Bangla Cinema felicitating the living legends of Bangla Film industry Actors Supriya Devi, Sabitri Chatterjee, Director Tarun Majumdar, Cinematographers Soumendu Roy, Shakti Banerjee and Singer Aarati Mukherjee for their contribution to Bangla Cinema. The city glitterati was in for a treat with FFACE Calendar 2016 unveiling the twelve fresh faces of Kolkata in the fashion industry. The star-studded night witnessed a gala fashion show with the twelve models featured in the calendar. Tollywood Divas Mimi Chakraborty, Srabanti Chatterjee, Nusrat Jahan, Rudranil Ghosh and renowned director Raj Chakraborty were present to unveil the themed FFACE Calender 2016. Mr. Neil Roy, Founder Director of FFACE was present to address the media.

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RISING STAR DEBUTS IN A PIJUSH SAHA COMEBACK

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 10th January, 2016: After long 6 years Pijush Saha is back in the industry with a new romance-drama-action film. Prince Entertainment P4 presents a Pijush Saha Production BEPAROYAA introducing Rubel Das as Surya, the protagonist of the story. Dancing sensation Rubel is to debut his acting career with the epic love battle in the movie against Ronojoy Bishnu for his love Papri. The movie is going to hit the screens this January 15th as said. Today’s Political Satire Youth love story always caters greater youth generation and viewers of all classes. Director Pijush Saha is much excited for the new release this year. Rajotabha Dutta will also be seen here, playing a negative role.It also stars Arun Banerjee, Santilal, Koushik Banerjee, Nimu Bhoumik, Soumili Biswas and Dolon Roy. The story, screenplay, dialogue, and direction are done by Pijush Saha himself. Indra’s special lilting melodious tune along with item number will surely attract the mass. J. Sridhar and Rajiv Srivastava joined hands in cinematography in making this film. They intend to represent the “HERO” of the movie in a very special format which will drive the mass “CRAZY”.

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BRITISH COUNCIL OPENS CLASSES AT CAMAC STREET, KOLKATA

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 10th January, 2016: British Council is going to open Classes at Camac Street from February onwards for catering all age groups. This has been announced by the organization in a press interaction during its launch of its state-of-the-art new classrooms. According to the officials with this initiative the students will have a choice of their classroom venue with the earlier venue remaining intact. Ms. Sujata Sen, British Council Director of East India said that they are ambitious about improving India’s high-quality English language education to compete with the global economy. She also said “Since 2010 with our launching of English classes demands have been growing. Classes will be held for Children (2yrs to 15yrs) and Adult (15+ onwards) from 9 am to 7pm in different slots each of 2hrs and 3hrs depending on the number of days the student attend per week”.

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 9th January, 2016: The India International Guitar Festival 2016 has started off on 6th Jan by private media organization at ICCR (Indian Council Of Cultural Relation) & G.D. Birla Sabhagar, Kolkata. This 2nd edition of IIGF constituted guitar competition along with talent hunt in Rabindrasangeet & rock on 7th & 8th of Jan from 11am to 9pm. The 4-day fete will be ending up tomorrow i.e. 10th with the seminars, master classes & prize distribution ceremony at G.D. Birla Sabhagar venue.  The Grammy Nominee from Kolkata Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya started this celebration of music last year dedicating to his guru Indian classical guitar pioneer pt. Brij Bhushan Kabra. This year the main intention was to promote the upcoming young slide guitarists by providing them the scholarship which migrated from the World War ll. The festival is hosting hundreds of guitarist from the outskirts of Kolkata and throughout the state led the audiences from Nadia, Krishnanagar, Bethua, Baruipur & many other districts to attend the celebration.”IIGF aims to bring world music everywhere irrespective of its area, region and genre” said Anandi Bhattacharya (organizer & daughter of Pt. Debashish Bhattacharya).

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FLIGHTS AND RAILWAYS HIGHLY AFFECTED BY HEAVY FOG IN SILIGURI

By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri) ~ R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 9th January, 2016: Siliguri along with other adjoining was today engulfed with heavy fog in the wee hours of the morning. This has resulted in a slowdown of the cities normal activities including business and other activities. Most affected were the transport systems like air services, rail and roadways. In Bagdogra Airport, the airways visibility was around 1 – 1.4 km which were below the 2.5 km mark according to the Airport Director of Bagdogra Airport Mr. Rakesh Sahay. A Bhutan bound flight and 4 other flights were today cancelled due to poor visibility. On the other hand, various other trains were reported to be going late by huge margins due to heavy fog. This has been reported from the official source of Northern Frontier Railways today.

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON HUMAN RIGHTS, ECOLOGY GOING ON IN MAINAGURI COLLEGE

By A. Maitra (TNI) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Mainaguri, 9th January, 2016: An International Seminar is currently going on in Mainaguri College. It is expected to continue upto 3 days which started yesterday. Delegates from USA, European Union and other countries are participating. The main theme of the seminar is Ecology, Globalisation and Human Rights. Further various academicians are participating in the seminar delivering their research papers in the earlier mentioned theme. The seminar is organized by the Institute of Cross-Culture Education and Academic Exchange. The main program is being organized at the auditorium of Mainaguri College.

By Rita Das (TNI Siliguri) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 9th January, 2016: In the recently concluded Election of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India -Eastern Region consisting the states of Orissa, West Bengal and North East, Mr. Manish Goyal has been elected to the Eastern India Regional Council for the second time in succession. He came overall second. Mr. Goyal is a member of Siliguri Branch. The entire members of Siliguri Branch had worked hand in hand for these results. Senior Members Mr. P C Maskara, Mr. Gopal Choudhury, Mr. G. S. Hora expressed happiness on his success. The Branch Chairman, Secretary and the Managing committee dedicated this victory to the unity of this Branch. The Branch also places its thanks to Guwahati Branch for supporting Mr. Manish Goyal.

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DARJEELING MARATHON ON 12TH JANUARY DECLARED

By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 8th January, 2016: Today Darjeeling police announced the most sought after marathon event to be organized by Darjeeling along with Gorkha Territorial Administration (GTA). The buzz was already in the air for quiet sometimes, however, today it was declared officially. The main theme of the event is peace and happiness. The superintendent of Darjeeling Police Mr. Amit P. Javalgi in a press meet addressed the press about the event which will cover a total of 21 kms. The chief guest of the occasion is slated to be the ace Indian runner Shiny Wilson, who will also be flagging off the marathon on 12th January from Sukhia Pokhri. However, participation will not be free of cost. The registration fee kept is Rs. 250/- however, there are considerations on behalf of Darjeeling Police about the ability of the participants who can pay or who can’t. On the other hand, the cash prize worth lakhs of rupees is awaiting the winners at the end.

WALKATHON FOR THE NORTHEAST CANCER PATIENTS AT KOLKATA

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 8th January, 2016: North East Officers and Professionals Welfare Association (NEOPWA) in partnership with Tata Medical Centre announced the event called “Walk-for-a-Cause” to be held on 10th of January 2016. It starts from the adjacent ground of Territorial Officers Institute near Park Street Crossing, Kolkata. This fundraising event is the first signature event of NEOPWA for the aid of the poor cancer patients from the North East coming to Kolkata for treatment at Tata Medical Center. The event is supported by many eminent people of the North East from different walks of life. Ex-National Football Team Captain Mr. Baichung Bhutia is their Goodwill Ambassador for the event. Mr. Amitava Gan Chaudhuri, Hony. Secretary of NEOPWA said, “NEOPWA Walkathon is our first noble attempt for a divine cause to support the underprivileged cancer patients coming from North East. The Walkathon is also to build awareness among the people of Kolkata and the North East about the deadliest faces and perils of Cancer. We pledge to donate a major portion of the amount collected to Tata Medical Centre, Kolkata to support all the poor patients coming from North East for their treatment at their hospital. CenturyPly has always been a forerunner to support such worthy causes and they have partnered with us as the principal sponsor of this event.’

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‘GREEN GALLERY’ AFFORDABLE ART FOR ALL

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 8th January, 2016: India Green Reality Pvt. Ltd. has come up with Green Gallery, a unique art gallery which aims to give exposure to the new and talented along with the veterans and the famous. The works of art are priced reasonably so that people with a taste of art and craft but with limited affordability can take home their purchase. The team of Chorabali came together to launch Green Gallery at Om-Parvati Bhawan, Rajdanga, Kolkata-107 along with its online version through which all paintings and artifacts are reflected online for view and sales. The director of the movie Chorabali, Mr. Subhrajit Mitra said, “The movie’s mounting is also very different. We have used different tones and colours to make look larger than life and bring the essence of a thriller. The posters have also been created to give it a brush stroke feel”. Actress Tanushree Chakraborty added, “We are happy to have been able to associate ourselves with this gallery as it espouses our philosophy that art to reach the grassroots.” Locket Chatterjee, Sayoni Dutta, Malabika Banerjee, and Shataf Figar were also present at the occasion. Director of India Green, Mr. Amitava Samanta said that it was their part of Corporate Social Responsibility project, where the money raised by selling the paintings will be given to educating the (underprivileged) children of Khushee.

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DACOITS CAUGHT BEFORE DACOITY AT MAINAGURI

By A. Maitra (TNI) ~ Edited By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Mainaguri, 07th January, 2016: Today Mainaguri police caught 5 dacoits with sharp weapons. After getting a tip off the dacoits were arrested from Susthirhaat area of Mainaguri yesterday night. All the arrested were dreaded criminals according to the police sources. From them, police recovered sharp weapons, bombs, bomb-making equipment and a car. The entire arrested have past records of dacoity, cow theft charges earlier in police records. All of them were produced in Jalpaiguri court today. Among them, 3 were taken to police remand according to the Mainaguri Police IC Mr. Sukumar Mishra. He also said that the dacoits assembled to make a dacoity attempt in a house of the resident of Sushtirhaat area of Mainaguri. All of the arrested are from Mainaguri area only.

FEMALE LEOPARD RESCUED FROM DAMDIM ARMY CAMP OF DOOARS

By A. Maitra (TNI) ~ Edited By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Damdim, 7th January, 2016: A female leopard was today rescued from Damdim Army camp in Dooars today. The animal was rescued by Mal Wild Life Squad. The range officer Mr. Subir Biswas told TNI that the animal was creating the problem in the army camp for the last few days. A big trap was laid to catch the leopard. The animal was caught in the trap on Wednesday dawn. After rescuing the animal was later let go in Gorumara forest today.

JALPAIGURI QUACK ACCUSED OF INJECTING WRONG DRUG

By A. Maitra (TNI) ~ Edited By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Jalpaiguri, 7th January, 2016: A quack doctor was today accused of injecting the wrong drug into a patient leading to the death of the patient. The incident happened in Jalpaiguri’s Shobharhaat area. The name of the patient is Aliar Rehman (55) of the same area. Today the family of the patient lodged a complaint at Jalpaiguri’s Kotwali Police Station against the quack under who the patient was undergoing treatment. The Super of Jalpaiguri District Hospital ordered the viscera examination of the dead. However, the quack doctor named Ranjit Halder said if the accusation is proved correct he is ready to face trial. He is said to inject Voveron injection after the patient came with chest pain. Soon after the injection was applied the condition of the patient deteriorated and he died en route to the Jalpaiguri District Hospital.

ALL BENGAL SIT & DRAW COMPETITION OF ASIEWT BRINGING IN HOPE FOR CHILDREN

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 07th January, 2016: “All work no play makes Jack a dull boy”. With so much stress in studies and pressure of exams children nowadays get no time to relax their mind. Creativity plays a major part in our daily work to ease our life and if a kid doesn’t get time for her hobbies, it will make her dull and there will be very less prospect for her growth. Keeping this thing in the mind, during this time of the year ASIEWT every year organized a sit and draw competition. This year it’s on 24th of January, 2016. There will be 5 different time slots so that everyone can participate according to their convenient time. The first slot starts from 8:30 am with a period of 1hr 30mins each continued consecutively that means after the first slot the next will be at 10 am, followed by the 3rd at 11:30 am and so on. In each slot of timing, all the 5groups will be participating. There will be 5 different Age Groups Participating: Group A: 0-5, Group B: 5+ to 8, Group C: 8+ to 12, Group D: 12+ to 16, Group E: 16+ to 20. The Time Given to first 3 groups will be 1hr and the rest will get 1hr 30mins. Topics: For Group A is Draw as You Like, and for the rest there will be 3 topics given on the spot. Consolation prize and participating certificate will be given to each and every participant. Prize: will be given to 1st till 13th position of every age-group. Starting with 350 student 5years back ASIEWT has reached a 1000 expected participants this year. Their reach massively increased and children from all corners of Bengal are currently aspiring to participate in this contest. Contestants from most schools and even from Asansol, Bardhaman, Canning, Howrah etc. come here to sit and portray their imagination.

By A. Maitra (TNI) ~ Edited By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Mainaguri, 6th January, 2016: A minor girl’s body was today found hanging in Mainaguri town which created a tension in the area. The girl’s father a daily laborer alleged that his daughter was raped and then murdered. He also said that the girl yesterday went for school but never returned. The body was found in a bamboo bush today morning. The body was sent for postmortem at Jalpaiguri Sadar Hospital. A case of unnatural death was registered by the police.

By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 6th January, 2016: A Private Coaching Picnic Bus today overturned at Simulbari area near Siliguri. Three students got injured in the accident. The bus was coming from Damdim for picnic towards Mirik. The bus overturned and fell in a ditch when it hit a light post in the side of the road. The students started screaming which prompted the locals to come to their rescue. The injured were admitted in a nearby hospital. Later the bus was pulled up with the help of army equipments.

DANGEROUS CHEMICAL ARE USED EXTERNALLY FOR PRESERVING FISHES

By Arunangshu Maitra (TNI Falakata) ~ Edited By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Falakata, 06th January, 2016: Till now there were reports about water bodies were poisoned for catching fishes. Things are changing towards the worst situation. This 1st Plate item fish item of the Bengali’s are directly poisoned with dreaded chemicals and preservatives for weight increasing and preserving this water stock. Those chemicals are injected into the dead fish body regularly. The chemicals which are being used are:

1. Formalin
2. Formaldehyde
3. Potassium Dichromate
4. Sohaga
5. Urea
6. Isabgol
7. Iron dust

All these chemicals are highly dangerous for human anatomy creating diseases like cancer, psychological disorder, body poisoning, kidney dysfunctioning, digestive dysfunctioning etc. In this connection, Mr. Asish Mandal, Biology teacher from Deogaon High School of Falakata told TNI that chemicals like Formaldehyde and Formalin can create Cancer in the human body. Dr. Bikram Saha (Ayurved) from Falakata told TNI that high levels of Isabgol are unacceptable for the human body. The ramifications came to light when iron balls were found in the stomach of fishes in Falakata Bazar area. These were used for increasing the weight of the fishes.

Photo: Arunangshu Maitra (TNI)

‘NETAJI PHIRECHILEN’ DISCLOSES DECLASSIFIED FILES OF SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 05th January, 2016: Since the declassification of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose files last year there were arguments raised on the issue regarding Netaji’s death. In the file number 58 there was a hint weakening the point of his death in the air crash because on the said date i.e. 18th August 1945, no flight left from Taiwan which was crashed. Thus, it is apparently believed he went off to China or Soviet. In this burning issue of the national hero, Mr. Anuj Dhar, the founder of Mission Netaji and also an author has penned down a book named ‘Netaji Phirechilen’ which is translated in Bengali by Saibal Mitra, the film maker. The book is completely based on documents of the 64 declassified files. The death of the national patriot is still a mystery and there are still several documents that have to be disclosed which includes KGB archives of Russia, Mi6, Japan Intelligence files, India Intelligence Bureau files and other files from Germany and Great Britain. The central government has actively taken up the duty to solve and end the secrecy of his death, as said by Sri Chandra Kumar Bose, Official Spoke Person of Bose Family.

Edited By: T. Deepika (TNI Siliguri)
Photo: Priyanka Ghosh Dastidar (INT – Kolkata)

SILIGURI’S H.C. ROAD BYABSAYEE SAMITY PAYS HOMAGE TO THE PATHANKOT MARTYRS

By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 5th January, 2016: Yesterday evening the Hill Cart Road Byabasayee Samity Siliguri arranged a programme to pay tribute to the martyrs of Pathankot Terror Attack. The Tribute Programme was organised at Hill Cart Road, Sonapatty area where a large number of gathering was present. Candles were lit and flowers were showed in front of the Martyr pictures. The Samity President Mr. Trilokchang Agarwal, Secretary Mr. Sanat Bhowmick, Vice President Mr. Bijay Gupta and In Charge Mr. Sandeep Karnani were present in the occasion.

Photo: Mr. Sandeep Karnani (HRBS Siliguri)

ODEUM FESTIVAL 2016 TO REVIVE THEATRE IN INDIA

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 5th January, 2016: Golven Creation Pvt. Ltd presents Odeum Festival 2016 to be held from 8th to12th January 2016 at Science City Hall, Ahindra Mancha and ICCR. In the festival Mahesh Bhatt, Arvind Gaur, Zahid Markand Deshpande, Sujoy Prasad Chatterjee, Sudipa Basu and others from different states of India and Bangladesh are participating. The authority wishes to mark theatre as a part of social responsibility in the corporate world. Eminent personalities like Sujay Prasad Chatterjee, Sudipa Basu, Bijoylakshmi Barman, Premasish Dey, Kheyali Dastidar were present in the launch of the theme music by Rooh Music. Plays by Suresh Bhardwaj, Manish Joshi, Mahesh Bhatt and others will be acted upon.

Edited By: T. Deepika (TNI Siliguri)
Photo: Priyanka Ghosh Dastidar (INT – Kolkata)

CLASSICAL MUSIC EVENING AT ICCR, KOLKATA

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 5th January, 2016: In the presence of musical maestros like Pandit Kumar Bose, Pandit Tarun Bhattcharya, Sri Joy Sarkar, Mr. Hindol Majumder and others it is announced that on 18th January 2016, a classical instrumental evening of music will be organised at Satyajit Ray Sabhagriha, ICCR Kolkata at 5pm. Hindol Majumdar, Sanatan Goswami, Smt. Priyadarshini Kulkarni and others will be there with their soul of sound. Mr. Hindol Majumdar has occupied a commendable position amongst the young table players of his generation. Love for music being in his blood, he started learning table at the tender age of 5 years and received training from eminent masters. He is now shuttling all over the globe with various artists and his work and experiment is critically acclaimed by the people around the world.

Edited By: T. Deepika (TNI Siliguri)
Photo: Priyanka Ghosh Dastidar (INT – Kolkata)

THAKUMAR JHULI TO HIT THE SILVER SCREEN SOON

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 5th January, 2016: 21st century kids are much absorbed into Harry Potter, Transformers and other West-born Super Heroes, Art Director Nitish Roy decides to put all the Bengal kids to Thakumar Jhuli. The Generation X and Y to some extent has witnessed the thrilling and fairy atmosphere while watching the ‘thakumar jhuli’ episodes on Sunday mornings. With growing technology and broadcast medium, somewhere “Thakumar jhuli, Nonte Phonte, Batul da” has lost their audience. Children now-a-days no longer wait for those fictitious shows to come on television, but find themselves comfortable with various mobile games and western heroes. Buddhu- Bhutum, a story based on the concept of Thakumar Jhuli developed by Nitish Roy is going to hit the silver screen soon. This will act as a comeback of bengali animated fairy tales for the kids who have lost touch with these magical characters like Buddhu and Bhutum. This will be a much nostalgic piece of work for the grown up people. The script and dialogue penned by Kaushik Bandyopadhyaya, DOP-Mrinmoy Mondal, Art Directed by Amit Chatterjee and Music by Surajit Chatterjee. The casting includes Sujoy as Buddhu, the monkey prince; Manali as Princess Bhutum. The three queens Locket Chatterjee, Koneenica Banerjee, and Debleena Kumar respectively of the King of Viratgarh played by Kaushik Chakraborty.

Edited By: T. Deepika (TNI Siliguri)
Photo: Priyanka Ghosh Dastidar (INT – Kolkata)

FLUCTUATING COLD CREATING PROBLEMS FOR KOLKATA LIFESTYLE

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 4th January, 2016: Global Warming and the weird fluctuations of the weather, an issue of discussion. The urban civilization is quite confused to take a decision whether it’s about taking a vacation or about fashion. With the continuous ups and downs in the mercury, the problem of health issues also is frequent in the winter. “Children’s are the worst sufferer as their vacations get wrecked,” said Mr. Sudip Kumar Datta who is equally concerned for his son. Moreover, winter has always been a fashion statement for the young generation who keeps waiting to grab their hoodies and jackets from the old bunch of suitcases. “Because of the not so cool temperature I couldn’t flaunt my leather jackets & boots as it would be too heavy to carry”, said a BBA student ‘Santu Garodia’ from Techno India. ‘Manisha Das’ student of Scottish church enunciated her uttermost love for sweatshirt & coats which she is still hopping to wear in upcoming days if the temperature gets down. Furthermore, the sale of the street vendors is also getting hampered.

Photo: Puja Sahni (INT – Kolkata)

TUSKERS DESTROY 6 HOUSES AT KARBALA TEA GARDEN OF BANARHAT

By Atish Sen (TNI Banarhat) ~ Edited By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Banarhat, 03rd January, 2016: Two tuskers attacked the labor line quarters of Karbala Tea Garden, destroying 6 houses. The elephants came from Reti Forest, which falls under Banarhat Police Station. The attack happened on Saturday night around 11 pm when the families were sleeping. Incidentally, no casualties were there. The affected families accused the forest department of non functioning against the attack and non co-operations with the affected people. On the other hand, the forest staff accused the laborers of dumping local liquor in their houses that attract the tuskers. However, the forest Department has assured the families to provide compensation after proper investigation.

Photo: Atish Sen (TNI)

RELIEF DISTRIBUTED BY THE ANANDA MARGA TEAM AT DOOARS TEA GARDENS

By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri) ~ Edited By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 03rd January, 2016: Today Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team (AMURT), Hakimpara Unit of Siliguri has distributed blanket, clothes (sari, shirt, trousers), Soyabeans, Bengal Grams (Chola), baby foods among 150 families of laborers at Killcott Tea Garden. This has been informed by a press release issued by AMRUT, Hakimpara Unit of Siliguri. Apart from this 7 labourer families of Bagrakote Tea Garden were also provided with the same relief materials. On this occasion, Senior Monks of Ananda Marga Pracaraka Samgha, Acharya Sumitrananda Avadhut and Acharya Mantrasiddhyananda Avadhut were the Chief Guest and Special Guest respectively. The programme was coordinated by Dr. Biswajit Bhowmik, Subrata Pal, Abhijit Das of AMURT and Sh. Prakash Naik, Sh. Ratan Parja, Sh. Sakhi Oraon of Killcott Tea Garden.

Photo: AMRUT, Hakimpara, Siliguri

KALAKAR AWARDS 2016 COMING SOON

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Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 03rd January, 2016: Kalakar Parivar Foundation announced the 24th edition of Kalakar Awards at a Press Interaction. The Gala Award Ceremony will be hosted at the Science City Auditorium, Kolkata on 24th of January, 2016. The Annual Kalakar Awards is known for the Excellence in Cinema, Television and Entertainment organized by the Kalakar Parivar Foundation. It started its journey in the year 1993. Since then it has emerged as the premium award ceremony of Eastern India amongst the entertainment fraternity across Bengal. Hon’ble TMC MLA and Veteran Actor Chiranjeet Chakraborty and Playback singer Ms. Jojo will unveil the Prestigious Trophy of the 24th Annual Kalakar Awards 2016 along with the renowned Artist Wasim Kapoor and the esteemed members of the Kalakar Foundation Parivar.

Edited By: T. Deepika (TNI Siliguri)
Photo: Priyanka Ghosh Dastidar (INT- Kolkata)

COMMERCE MINISTER ARRIVED AT BAGDOGRA

By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 03rd January, 2016: Today the Minister of Commerce, Smt. Nirmala Sitaraman, came to Siliguri (Bagdogra) in a 3 day visit for taking stock of the situations in affected Tea Gardens of  North Bengal. According to the sources the minister will be visiting the closed tea Gardens of Dooars today and tomorrow. Among the gardens she will be visiting it will be Bandapani, Birpara & Denguajhar TGs. Apart from this the tour schedule also have the minister meeting separately with the garden owners, the financial institutions associated with the tea gardens, worker unions and other stakeholders. This visit is based on the assurance of the Commerce Minister to take note of the current situation prevailing in the closed Tea Gardens in the last session of the Parliament.

DEEP TUBE WELL FOR GURUNG BASTY’S HINDI SCHOOL AT SILIGURI

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Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 03rd January, 2016: A deep tube well setting-up work has started at Siliguri Deshbandhu Hindi School located at Gurung Basty at Ward No. 3. The Siliguri MLA Dr. Rudranath Bhattacharya initiated the work after a brief traditional ritual performed by the school authorities. Dr. Bhattacharya told that press that the entire cost of the setting of the tube well will be done from the MLA fund for development. The school currently has total student strength of around 2000. However, there were only the well and the municipal corporations’ supply of water for the warts studying here. The entire construction and setting works of the tube well is going to be executed by the P.H.E Department of the GOWB.

SILIGURI MIGHT GET ITS FIRST POSTAL ATM BY THE END OF JANUARY’16

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Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 02nd January, 2016: if everything comes in the right places then probably there’s something to cheer for the Postal Savings Bank account holders of Siliguri. Siliguri might be getting its first India Post ATM machines right here in the city. Unconfirmed postal sources said that all preparations are ready and currently the preparation and installation of the first Postal ATM machine is going on in full swing. According to the source, the probable date would be around this year’s Republic Day i.e. 26thJanuary, 2015. Earlier, the Government of India issued a gazette notification, which in effect amends the Post Office Savings Bank General Rules, 1981 and allows some specific Post offices which are part of the CBS (Core Banking Solution) network to issue ATM cards for their customers. Customers with ATM facility can use any other CBS enabled facility to withdraw or deposit money into their account. Hence, a Post Office Saving Account holder from Siliguri can visit the Post Office with CBS facility in Kolkata or Mumbai or New Delhi and use the ATM to withdraw money or deposit. As part of the massive IT modernization project of India Posts,  a sum of Rs. 4999 crore has already been allocated to increase the number of CBS connected Post Offices with ATM facility to 2800 locations by the end of the past year i.e.2015. Initiation of Siliguri Post Office’s ATM is a part of that project.

ANALOGUE CABLE TV SERVICE CONTINUES IN SILIGURI AFTER TRAI DEADLINE

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Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 02nd January, 2016: There is a confusion among the Siliguri’s Cable TV subscribers after the deadline of 31stDecember 2015 passed away. For the last 3 months all the MSO’s operating in Siliguri as well as the Broadcasters were informing the subscribers to convert the analogue Cable TV subscription into Digital Cable TV Subscription. It was also declared through the infomercials that there would be telecast blackout for the analogue cable TV subscribers. Almost 90-95% of the subscribers in Siliguri city itself have converted their subscription into DAS. However, after the passing away of the deadline i.e. 31st December 2015, the transmission continues to remain intact. According to the TRAI deadline, analogue Cable TV subscribers in urban areas (in the notified areas in the IIIrd phase) under Municipalities and Municipal Corporation will not receive any transmission. However, for the past two days there were no interruptions in the Analogue Cable TV services. Mr. Dilip Chakraborty from Hakimpara said that I had to spend around Rs. 1600/- for the STB provided by a popular Cable TV, but I see the previous transmission for some of my neighbors who didn’t spent the amount”. Similar experiences are there from various areas of Siliguri. Interestingly, not all the areas of Darjeeling district were under the purview of the deadline. According to the TRAI notification, areas like Phansidewa, Naxalbari, Panitanki, Bidhannagar, Ghoshpukur etc. don’t feature in the IIIrd Phase list. According to the TRAI notification, the deadline for Digital TV conversion is December 31st 2016 for these areas.

D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 02nd January, 2016: After information reached Siliguri’s security administration about the militant attack in Punjab’s Pathankot Air Base, the security checking have increased out of the block. The whole day Siligurians saw sudden checking in the vehicles mostly public ones irrespective of State run or private. Siliguri is always a sensitive place in terms of security cover is concerned according to the security forces. Recently, many agents belonging to the NE terrorist outfits and even ISI has been nabbed from the city. However, the worst state of affairs continued in NJP railway station and Siliguri Junction. The metal detectors and luggage checking kiosk stands functionless for the last few months. When asked about the sudden rise in security checks, the Police Administration averted the issue calling it as a “Routine Checks”. However, the security checks in Bagdogra were immediately up in the morning when the news reached about the militant attack.

SILIGURI TO GET ITS OWN LANGUAGE MARTYR TOWER

By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri) ~ Edited By Pradiptamay Saha (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 02nd January, 2016: Siliguri might be getting its own Language Martyr Tower. We all know about the famous Language Martyr Tower located in Dacca. Siliguri Municipal Corporation has decided to create the same in Siliguri’s Baghajatin Park. This has been declared by the SMC Mayor Mr. Asok Bhattacharya in a press conference yesterday. He also said that the Martyr Tower will be enclosed by a specially designed barricade to protect it from the crowd. He also further said that there are various organizations both nationally and internationally wanted to finance the project.

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TREATED WATER HOPE FOR JALPAIGURIANS IN THE NEW YEAR

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Webdesk, TNI Jalpaiguri, 01st January, 2016: The new year is going to become a boon for the Jalpaigurians. Jalpaiguri Municipality has decided to launch the tender bidding process of establishing the water treatment plant for supplying treated water to the Jalpaiguri residents. The chairman of Jalpaiguri Municipality Mr. Mohan Bose today declared that the water from River Teesta would be treated in a plant to be constructed at Sukantanagar area of the town. The municipal body has already received Rs. 74 crore for making the plant. Apart from this 4 Flood Relief camp facility would also be developed at Sukantanagar area each having a capacity of 300 people. As far as the water treatment plant is concerned an external organization would be hired for construction it but it would be supervised by the Municipality Engineering Department.

JALPAIGURI DAY CELEBRATED IN THE NEW YEAR DAY

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Webdesk, TNI Jalpaiguri, 01st January, 2016: New year day is also very much special for Jalpaiguri lovers. This is the day when this town was established in the British reign. In the year 1869, 1st January, this town was established by the Britishers in the form of a district. During that time the residents of the town comprised of only some handful families. There were various functions organized by some organizations like NGOs, social organizations, cultural organizations etc. Fruits and food packets were distributed among the hospital patients, sit & draw competitions were organized, cultural programs were also organized. However, an innovative activity was observed when the members of a social networking site assembled to organize a “Swach Bharat Abhiyan” drive in the heart of the town. Young boys and girls were seen cleaning the roads a mark of celebrating the establishment day of the town.

MAIDEN KOLKATA-COOCHBEHAR FLIGHT LANDED IN BAGDOGRA

By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri)

Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 01st January, 2016: In the second day of the Coochbehar bound flight from Kolkata via Durgapur (Andal) today touched Bagdogra. Today at Bagdogra 3 passengers boarded the flight of 9 passengers to Coochbehar. The Spirit Air flight has agreed to run flight for 4 days per week to and fro Coochbehar-Kolkata with a subsidy of around Rs. 26 Lakhs by the state Government. Every day the flight will start from Durgapur at 8:30 am towards Kolkata then from Kolkata at 8:50 am it will start towards Bagdogra which is scheduled to reach by 11:05 am. After refueling from Bagdogra and boarding passengers the flight will start towards Coochbehar at 11:25 am. It is expected to reach Coochbehar at around 12:05 pm. The same vice versa route will be followed towards Kolkata and then to Durgapur (Andal).