Actress through the eyes of an actress
A parna Sen has changed her plans about her next film. She has teamed up with Shree Venkatesh Films for the first time to steer Iti Mrinalini, a semiautobiographical tale starring motherdaughter Aparn |
BOLLYWOOD - Dancing queen
Danc The dream girl who made a zillion hearts skip a beat through the 70s and 80s,was in town on Monday for her brand association with Dreamline Big Bazaar. t2 spoke to HEMA MALINIas she whizzed from |
WORTH IT
?So what if Man U lost the Champions League? At least Cristiano Ronaldo went home smiling.And for good reasons too.Recently,Real Madrid bought him for a whopping �80 million from the Reds.The story go |
SIGNAL HONOUR
?Last week former European star,Nick Faldo became the first British golfer to be knighted in his own lifetime.Faldo's award means that he stands alone in the world of golf, a fitting position for a ma |
sky is the limit
?The Beijing skyline may have changed forever, thanks to the 2008 Olympics.And now it's the turn of the London skyline.The 2012 Olympics,as we know, is slated to be held in London and the organisers h |
WIZ CONTEST
Look at the columns of three-letter groups given below. One group from each column combines to give a nineletter word. For example, SINGAPORE Z
SIN WAS ION ORE THE IOU ALE RAT BAR TRY ASS FOR INS PEN |
QUICK
THINK
How quickly can you use all these letters to spell just one word? d e j n o o r s t u w |
Girl faces flu test ordeal
Cough & cold land 7-year-old
A seven-year-old girl became the latest victim of the city's squalid quarantine cell on Tuesday after touching down with a cough and cold
A week ago, a seven-year- old boy arriving from Bangkok wit |
'Manual' Metro slower but safer
Calcutta's Metro rail is safer - and slower - than Washington's crash-hit Metrorail because of the manual signalling system it is set to replace with an automatic one
"No two trains have come even |
Colleges in Aila fix
Colleges are facing problems implementing the state government's order to provide academic and financial sops to Aila-affected students. Principals of various colleges told Calcutta University that th |
Mamata in
budget
mode
Ten days before the railway budget, Mamata made it clear on Tuesday that austerity must begin at office. And the first to feel the squeeze will be railway officials eyeing frequent foreign jaunts
" |
Monsoon ray with rider
The possibility of a cyclonic circulation has raised hopes of monsoon rain from Thursday, exactly a month after cyclone Aila had dragged a premature and weak monsoon into the state
The weatherman a |
Mother in
shock after
fatal 'drop'
Panchami Jana,who allegedly dropped her eight-year-old son Sukumar while dangling him from the roof of a threestoreyed building to teach him a lesson, has confined herself to a room after Monday's fat |
Solar tools score in
power cut season
The demand for solar appliances is soaring in the city, thanks to daily power cuts
According to the 16 solar appliance manufacturerscum-retailers in Calcutta, their sales have increased at least 30 |
Hospital plans
The MP Birla Group has announced plans to set up a second hospital in the city after Belle Vue clinic
"The 200-bed hospital will provide healthcare facilities to the economically weaker sections.We |
One held
for fraud
The joint head of a Delhibased tyre manufacturer's office in Bowbazar was arrested on Monday night for defrauding the company of Rs 1.13 crore.The other head is on the run
Samir Bhushan Ghosh Ma- j |
State tightens criteria
for management quota
The state government has decided on a tougher criteria for students seeking admission to private engineering colleges under the management quota this year
An official in the higher education depart |
Conduct code for brokers
Realtors in Calcutta have stressed the need for a code of conduct for property marketing agents to ensure transparency in their functioning and a better deal for the consumer
"The selling agents' j |
5 judges
for high
court
- Shya mal Kumar Chakrabarti,Raghunath Roy, Provat Dey, Mrinal Kanti Sinha and M.A
Ghani - will be sworn in at Calcutta High Court on Wednesday
The appointment of the five will take the judge co |
Extra trains
?Eastern Railway will run an extra pair of local trains between Howrah and Sheoraphuli on June 24 and July 2 for Ratha Yatra and Ulta Ratha mela at Srirampur.The trains will leave Howrah at 4.05pm and |
Cop surrender
?Police officer Basudeb Bag, accused of torturing his eight-year-old help, surrendered before the Howrah chief judicial magistrate on Tuesday as directed by a district and sessions judge on Monday whi |
Tram mishap
?The driver of a tram was seriously injured and the vehicle damaged after a lorry hit the tramcar from the side on AJC Bose Road late on Monday.The driver was admitted to NRS hospital with critical he |
Bridge
?A portion of the eastern slope of Howrah bridge was damaged after a minibus on the Salkia-Esplanade route lost control and rammed into the railings on Tuesday morning.A passenger of the bus, Tultul A |
CUB CLUB - DRIFTWOOD
the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. It is known for its beautiful carapace (shell), which is central to its exploitation by humans
The Hawksbill is a medi- T um-sized sea turtle weighing about |
Fire
?A fire broke out in the ground-floor meter box of Moulali Yubakendra on Tuesday afternoon
Local residents spotted sparks emanating from the meter box and alerted cops,who contacted the fire brigad |
Shop robbed
?A shopowner on Canning Street lodged a complaint with Burrabazar police that four people on two motorcycles had robbed Rs 30 lakh from his shop on Tuesday afternoon
Sandeb Goenka said he had been |
WIZ CRAFT - Peel jewellery
C ut the peel of some oranges into four pieces
Cut out shapes from some of the peel. Make holes in these shapes with a knitting needle. Cut the rest of the peel into long rectangular strips
Wind |
WIZDOM
Y ou all know that the manatee is a large aquatic mammal. But did you know that the manatee's closest living re
lation is the elephant? Both have the same dental structure and produce babies in the sa |
WIZ CHEF - Snowy egg
T oast a slice of bread
Butter one side lightly
Separate the yolk and white of an egg. Beat the white till stiff with a little salt and pepper. Spread the beaten egg white on the buttered toast |
style & stars
|
You can't get through
this week without.
?.catching up on Wimbledon 2009. In fact,we're wondering if we'll see an emotional Roger Federer blubbering yet again
He cried when he finished runner-up to Rafael Nadal at last summer's Wimbledon |
TOLLY-BOLLY - PRETTY WOMEN
hree lovely ladies from three generations will come together to share screen space in an untitled film to be produced by Anil Gadar Sharma and steered by younger brother Sanjay. Bong beauty Rituparna |
OLYMPIC TRIP - Run, Jeff, run
?jeffrey lawal balogun, a British national, never thought running after a bus would fetch him a chance to run in the Olympics. Twentythree-year old Jeffrey is well on his way to making it to his count |
BOOKWATCH - Activity corner
?harpercoliins india has recently brought out a new series of books exclusively for tiny tots. Titled the Big Cat Read At Home Series, it comprises 16 books divided into four levels
The books are a |
who am I
? ? I started scoring music for films in the 1990s. I am now one of the all-time top selling recording artists in the world. I have won 13 Filmfare awards, four national awards, a BAFTA award, a Golde |
PUNCH
Father bear (looking at his empty bowl): Who's been eating my porridge? Baby bear (looking at his empty bowl): And who on earth has been eating mine? Mother bear: Oh, do be quiet, both of you. I haven |
MY FUNDAYS
f I was born in Lucknow's Dufreen Hospital. My parents had three daughters before me and so everybody was delighted when I was born. At the time of my birth, I happened to be the only baby boy in the |
Partition
Years of accumulated tears threatened to gush out at once
t What was happening? . Doesn't Go Y maya know him? How had he become "miyan" from Qurban bhai in one moment? The respect he had acquired b |
Five wanted
for arms haul
Police are looking for five criminals in connection with the arms haul at Thakurdari in New Town's Action Area II on Sunday morning
Ajit Naskar, behind whose single-storeyed house 18 guns, over 1,6 |
TOLLYWOOD
Rituparna Sengupta (extreme left) shows off her Anarkali churidaar designed by Sabyasachi Mukherjee at a party to celebrate Chaturanga winning awards at international festivals
The party was hosted |
Marry me!
If Jeet-Koel's Saat Pake Bandha was about a rocky marriage made good, here comes Aat Pake Bandha with the promise of a marriage stretching eight lifetimes! Co-directed by Kunal Chowdhury and Ruby Gupt |
FRIDAY film
The cast: Paran Bandopadhyay, Chinmoy Roy, Lily Chakraborty, Sreela Majumdar, Soumitra Chatterjee,Madhabi Mukherjee Directed by:Somnath Sen Catch it at: Nandan 2,4pm and 6.30pm The story:Swartho is ab |
BOLLYWOOD
It's been eight years since the 9/11 attack. Do you feel people would still be drawn to a film on the subject? 9/11 is only the backdrop for the film.The story of the film is about the lives of these |
HOLLYWOOD - HER NAKED TRUTH
G reta Scacchi proclaimed a year ago that she was done with taking her clothes off.Having stripped off in the films White Mischief, Heat and Dust and Shattered, a critic once commented that when it ca |
THE WOMAN ON TOP
|
Kids injured
in blast
Two children were injured after a crude bomb exploded at Mahestala, on the southern fringes,on Monday morning
Police said Anil Mahato, 10, and Santoshi Kumari, 15, had gone to an abandoned building |
Victoria list
plea in court
Environment activist Subhash Dutta moved the high court on Monday seeking an order directing the Victoria Memorial authorities to submit an inventory of objects in the museum's collection
The activ |
Mother's punishment kills boy
A mother who dangled her eight-year-old son from the terrace of a threestoreyed building to teach him a lesson for being naughty ended up not only losing her grip but also her only child
Sukumar Ja |
Hotel to
scale
new
heights
Rooms: 500-plus Floors: 27, with two basements Height: 350 feet Covered area: 1.5 million square feet Total project cost: Rs 1,500 crore-plus Coming up, Calcutta's largest star hotel
Dwarfing the e |
Monday blues
of sweat &
power cuts
Calcutta has beaten Mumbai on one count at least. "I thought Mumbai was humid but this is unbelievable," said Shankar Mahadevan, sweating profusely outside Science City on Monday
If Bollywood's mus |
HC prods battery auto
The high court on Monday directed the government to allow conversion of a twostroke autorickshaw to battery mode. The private firm doing the switchover would send the three-wheeler to the Automotive R |
Money hurdle in medical dream
A 19-year-old who studied by the light of a kerosene lamp to crack JEE is seeing darkness descend on his dream of becoming a doctor.He has the marks but not the money to study medicine
"My parents |
Cash scan on varsity dean
Jadavpur University's dean of arts is under the scanner over irregularities in the accounts of a research grant by a foreign agency
When questioned about the missing Rs 85,000, Biswajit Chattopadhy |
No water
supply
?Water supply will be suspended in the Howrah Municipal Corporation area for 24 hours from 2pm on Tuesday
According to civic officials, a major crack in the main grid of Padmapukur Water Works was |
Cop gets bail
?Basudeb Bag, the deputy inspector-general (development and welfare),was granted anticipatory bail by a Howrah court on Monday.Bag was accused of torturing his eight-year-old domestic help on May 6 an |
Puri train
?South Eastern Railway will run a pair of special trains between Puri and Howrah for Ratha Yatra.The Howrah-Puri Ratha Yatra Special will leave Howrah at 6.05pm on Tuesday and reach Puri at 3.30am on |
Uluberia halt
?The Howrah-Digha Kandari Express will stop at Uluberia from Wednesday on an experimental basis for six months, South Eastern Railway announced on Monday.Officials said the train from Howrah would rea |
Found dead
A 39-year-old man was found hanging in his Shyampukur home on Monday. Jogesh Kumar Ghosh was taken to RG Kar hospital,where he was declared dead, police said.A preliminary probe revealed Ghosh was an |
Arms haul in
New Town
Two polythene bags stashed with 17 guns, more than 1,600 bullets and material used for making crude bombs were found buried in Thakurdari, in New Town Action Area II, on Sunday afternoon
A 52-year- |
CALCUTTA'S CLEAN-UP CRUSADERS
An energetic band of youngsters descended on Dalhousie recently. Armed with plastic gloves and brooms, they attacked the paanstains, posters and billboards scarring the grand old edifices of Stephen H |
Broken taps
disrupt
supply
Households will never get enough water unless councillors stand united against the practice of breaking the taps of roadside stand pipes and drawing water directly from supply taps,sources in the Calc |
City police plan
for the outskirts
Calcutta police has drawn up a traffic management plan for the fringes which are set to be brought under its jurisdictionThe blueprint for Great Calcutta Metropolitan Police envisages city police t |
Cop car knocks
down bikers
A Calcutta police car, with an allegedly drunk man at the wheel, rammed into a motorcycle on Kushtia Road in Topsia on Sunday afternoon, seriously injuring the rider and the youth riding pillion
Ac |
Audience,
God & she
"We all have our hopes pinned on New York because if it does well, it will set the trend for the rest of the season with a long line of big releases (Kambakkht Ishq, Love Aaj Kal...),"he added
Katr |
Colour bar
E ver wondered why home-made tomato sauce is a brownishred concoction while the packaged variety is bright red? Or why gulab jamuns bought from a sweet shop are a rich brown while the ones that mother |
CHECKOUT - Hanging by a rope
bungee jump near Bangalore in April, forces me to question the safety of adventure sports in our country
It's time the administration turned its attention to these kinds of sports, debated their sa |
HOLLYWOOD - The machine bites back
James Cameron's shoes couldn't have been too small to fill.What was your first reaction when approached to direct a Terminatormovie? My first reaction was of utter disbelief.He was the first person wh |
BOLLY-TOLLY - A TALE
WITH 3
TWISTS
H is name may not ring a bell but Arup Duttahas steered several popular soaps and se- rials like Tara, Saturday Suspense and Star Best Sellers.Ready with his big screen directorial debut Morning Walk, |
SPOT THE
DIFFERENCE!
Only the stack of books under Reese Witherspoon's stilettos is missing from the lookalike Rahul-Priyanka poster for Bhalobasha Zindabad, directed by Reshmi Mitra
The rich-boymeets-poor-girl love st |
Monsoon flow out of sight for 48 hours
Sunday's sweltering heat will continue for at least another 48 hours with the weatherman ruling out the possibility of the dormant monsoon current over Bengal being activated in the next few days
" |
SHE LIVES HIS DREAMS
|
Lalgarh SOS to hospitals
The first batch of injured from battleground Lalgarh was wheeled into a private hospital rather than one of the staterun medical colleges that have been turning away patients to keep beds free for tho |
Why Kats is keen to hit Calcutta
Namastey London. She comes to Calcutta to promote the film. It's a super hit
Singh is Kinng.She comes to Calcutta to promote the film. It's a super hit
Yuvvraaj.She does not come to Calcutta to |
IIM space crunch
A new batch of budding managers will get into the B-school groove at IIM Calcutta next week with a crash course in space management
The class of 2009 will have to make do with cramped classrooms an |
Cellphone
haul
q Cellphones and memory cards worth about Rs 23 lakh were found in the toilet of a Biman Bangladesh plane and in an abandoned bag at the arrival lounge after the flight from Dhaka landed at the city a |
Diarrhoea
q Nearly 100 people had to be taken to Panihati State General Hospital with symptoms of diarrhoea after they ate prasadat a Kali puja in Azadhind Pally in Sodepur on Saturday
Hospital authorities s |
Gangster arrested
Pakhi Miyan, the kingpin of the biggest drug cartel in the Northeast, was picked up at Nayeemnagar in Durgapur town in a joint raid by the Calcutta police's Special Task Force (STF) and Assam police o |
Official found
dead in house
q A 38-year-old government official was found dead in his Jodhpur Park home on Sunday morning.Police said Subhendu Ganguly,a deputy director in the ministry of commerce, lived alone,drank heavily and |
Two injured
q The driver and help of a goods vehicle sustained injuries after it was hit by a minibus near Howrah court on Sunday afternoon.The injured were taken to Howrah District Hospital. |
Workshop
qA workshop for expectant mothers was organised at a city hotel on Sun day by Life Cell International,which has set up an umbilical cord blood stem cell banking, research and therapy facility in the c |
Blockade
q Nearly 200 Trinamul Congress supporters organised a roadblock at Golabari,Howrah,on Sunday afternoon to protest the "worsening" law and order situation in the area.The blockade held up traffic for o |
Electrical fire
q A fire broke out in an electric junction box at the Kadamtala crossing in the Ekbalpore area on Sunday afternoon.Two tenders took half an hour to douse the flames.No one was injured.The cause of the |
Agitation
q About 500 residents of Lebubagan in Baranagar demonstrated in front of the local police station on Sunday morning after hoodlums hurled bombs in the area.The protesters said the bombs were hurled be |
The first man
in my life
player.No matter how male-dominated our societies are, have we for far too long seen fathers as second best? I still remember the first time I saw an ad on Indian TV W where the father of the house wa |
flashback - Lunch on lotus leaves
L andmark buildings in cities often have interesting histories. There is every possibility that they were constructed after demolishing another building with an equally interesting past. The Birla Ind |
eyewitness - Methodical schizophrenia at 85
K .G. Subramanyan's creativity is marked by the coexistence of disparate, contradictory and often incompatible elements that jostle and struggle with each other and seem to be in a constant state of t |
STAGE - Turnover talk
only recently that groups are talking USP, turnover, public relations and global reach
On June 13, when British Council (East India) hosted in Calcutta India's first contes for the Young Performing |
Next weekend you can be at ...
Jamuna Dighi
of Eastern Railway and 13km from Paraj on Durgapur Expressway near Panagarh. It offers the perfect destination for a quiet weekend
Green paddy fields on either side of the road, and the abundance o |
Tomorrow is today
I t was 1967 and Martin Luther King was delivering a speech in New York City
"We are faced with the fact,my friends," he said, "that tomorrow is today.We are confronted with the fierce urgency of n |
Heritage
engine
driver
Papia Ghoshal from New Alipore drives a heritage S he has travelled a long way to keep travelling a long way.
steam engine in the UK, for West Somerset Railway
She claims she is the lone woman and |
CLIMATE WATCH - Security scare
after Aila
C yclonic storms like Aila can trigger serious security concerns, a recent study by the Delhi-based Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) has found
Funded by the British high commission, the study, |
Going
Take a train from Howrah station, preferably Black Diamond,and get down at Mankar station.One has to reach Jamuna Dighi by road.Or take a bus via the Durgapur Expressway and get off at Paraj More.Buse |
Staying
The state fisheries department rest house is an option. Contact Bikash Bhavan, Salt Lake, for booking. |
CITY LIGHTS - Art of cinema as boi
M oving away from the oft-repeated discussions on the influence of literature on cine- ma, Madhuja Mukherjee, a film historian and senior lecturer of Film Studies at Jadavpur University, drew her audi |
Face of the Buddha in thought
of famous men and women are an invention that goes beyond likeness and natural endowments and becomes an interpretation of their personalities, if only as grasped by the sculptor. (Sculptor) Sarbari R |
BOOK BAZAAR - On monogamy
I f monogamy is unnatural polygamy is illegal, and se rial monogamy is the way to go, why does it feel so wrong?' This was the topic of discussion on June 19 at Cross word Bookstore at the launch of H |
caleidoscope - Netherworld heat retreat
O n a summer day, all the people going down the stairs of a Metro station do not end up taking a train
You will see so many standing in small huddles, chatting away unhurriedly while all round them |
FREE RADICAL - Order, order, fall in love
whale. In the fading evening light, it lay inert and looked like a dark blob close to the edge of the water. But then, as a wave crashed in, the body came to life and, much to my horror, split into tw |
Neighbours' pride
O n her way back home one day, Mamata Banerjee spotted a stray dog under a tea-stall near her house in Harish Chatterjee Lane. It looked unfed. Banerjee pressed a 50-rupee note into the hands of the t |
REVIEW - A stale hodge-podge
Jackman, always seemed kind of special.A grouchy, sensitive loner with retractable metal claws and apparently unretractable facial hair,Wolverine brooded and growled through the first three X-Men pict |
Better mishtion menu
Railway minister Mamata Banerjee has issued a series of directives for better passenger amenities, including one on a change of menu for the Rajdhani Express
"The minister has issued orders aimed a |
Woman run over, dies
A 24-year-old woman, riding a two-wheeler, died after being hit by a vehicle and run over by another on Middleton Row on Friday evening
"Sowmya Venkateshan, the wife of an army officer, was flung o |
School plea
?Modern High School for Girls moved the high court on Friday for permission to operate school buses older than 15 years after July 31
The court had banned commercial vehicles older than 15 years in |
READ MY LIPS
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Disruption
?Services on the Sonarpur-Canning line of Eastern Railway's Sealdah South section were disrupted for four hours from 2.50am on Friday because of theft of 60 metres of overhead wires between Taldi and |
Civic budget
?The implementation of the state pay commission's recommendations has increased the annual deficit in the civic budget by Rs 180 crore
On Friday,mayor Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya tabled the Calcutt |
Lecture
?A lecture and interactive session on Management of Schools in India will take place at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Gol Park,on June 20 between 3 and 5pm.The lecture will be delivere |
Course launch
?Master of Public Systems Management (MPSM),a two-year degree course under Calcutta University (2009-11 session), will be inaugurated at the Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management |
REVIEW - PAINING PESTS
F riday after Friday you hope and pray that the producers and the plexes strike a deal and we get to watch Bollywood movies on the big screen. Fifteen minutes into Paying Guests, you hope and pray tha |
ALSO RELEASED
FILM: Let's Dance DIRECTOR: Aarif Sheikh CAST: Gayatri Patel, Aquib Afzal, Ajai Chowdhary, Abhaas,Paras, Nikunj, Sugandha Garg, Anjan Srivastav PLOT: The directorial debut of National Awardwinning edi |
TELEVISION - 'I REALLY LOVE WOMEN'
D ashing MTV VJ Rannvijay talks about the birds and bees, and the special women in his life
The cool dude is single but maintains that his ex-girlfriend Anusha Dandekar is the sexiest women in Boll |
FIRST LOOK
DUMSPECIAL: This episode of 10 Ka Dum is special for two reasons. First,Katrina Kaif is the celebrity of the day. Second, this episode has a prize to win.Katrina will ask a question and the viewers ha |
CHESS
B efore the Internet and laptop computers and chess databases, players wanting to keep abreast of developments in the opening phase of the game had to rely on magazines and books
They were publishe |
BRIDGE
I n the 120-board match played last Friday and Saturday to decide the USA-1 team in this ye- ar's Bermuda Bowl world championship, Steve Robinson, Peter Boyd, Doug Doub, Adam Wildavsky, Fred Stewart a |
Extra train
?The Sealdah-Jaipur biweekly summer special will make 15 additional trips between Sealdah and Jaipur.The train will leave Sealdah on all Mondays and Wednesdays in July and August
The schedule remai |
Inspectors to
scan colleges
A group of inspectors will monitor undergraduate colleges of all streams from this year, state higher education minister Sudarshan Ray Chaudhury announced on FridayThe inspectors, drawn from academ |
Mock threat, real panic
A couple of fliers left the queue at a ticket counter and rushed out.A group fled, leaving lunch unfinished in the first-floor restaurant.A few employees,missing even after the "all clear"sign was fla |
Black Cats land
at airport base
If Cobra has slithered into Lalgarh to neutralise the Maoist threat, the Black Cats have slipped into Calcutta to set up a quick-reaction counter-terrorism camp
A 25-acre plot belonging to the Airp |
Weekend
of power
woes and
sweat
The city's discomfort factor soared on Friday, with the CESC helplines going blank even as power cuts continued and the weather stayed sultry
The helplines would be alive and ringing this weekend, |
English gets a
career boost
English has won top honours among admissionseekers this season, with the demand for teachers in the subject in south Asian countries and West Asia spurring the scramble to study Shakespeare
"The nu |
DADDY
DEAR
|
COMPANY EYES END-2010 RE-OPENING -
Hotel revamp trips on
tenant, heritage hurdle
The revamped Great Eastern Hotel will open its doors in the last quarter of 2010, if there are no delays like the ones that have pushed back the early-2009 deadline
"The main structure and the new |
Run out or
run home
The CISF repeated the announcement on the first and second floors. The area was soon cordoned off and fire tenders, ambulances, police vehicles and men from the bomb detection squad swooped down on th |
TOLLYWOOD - ON FATHER'S DAY (JUNE 21) EVE, TINSEL TOWN'S BUSY DADS TALK ABOUT BONDING WITH THEIR KID
ON FATHER'S DAY (JUNE 21) EVE, TINSEL TOWN'S BUSY DADS TALK ABOUT BONDING WITH THEIR KIDS...
PROSENJIT: Hands-on dad Have you ever changed Trishanjit's nappies? Oh yes, I have done that and also clean |
YOU SHARE YOUR
B'DAY WITH...
RAHUL GANDHI & SALMAN RUSHDIE You are intelligent and optimistic.You prefer to work on your own.Too busy to bother about trivial things, you are often untidy and indisciplined
You don't hesitate to |
Many shades of life
nation and arouse viewers'emotions while transcribing the experience of a single moment.Dedicated to teaching students all aspects of this powerful art form,Light & Shadow has nurtured many talents wh |
HOLLYWOOD
latest film, he and the director, Joel Hopkins,were shooting a scene: Hoffman travelling through London in a black cab
It was just the two of them in the taxi, Hopkins crouched down behind a monito |
BOLLYWOOD - The passionate wordsmith
teractive session organised by the Ladies Study Group on Tuesday evening at Taj Bengal, announced at the very outset: "If there's anything about singing you want to ask me, you can. Otherwise the mast |
SURVIVING
HAPPINESS
|
Hit by heat & power cuts
The temperature and relative humidity shot up yet again on Thursday, ending the shortlived relief of Wednesday evening's thunderstorm. The discomfort index touched 66.7 degree Celsius, 12 points above |
School to reopen as
Trinamul backs out
Vivekananda Mission School, shut down "indefinitely" on Wednesday, will reopen on Monday following an assurance from Trinamul Congress leader Partha Chatterjee that the party would not back the union |
Kids'voices deny
cop father bail
A constable of Calcutta police, arrested for allegedly abetting his wife's suicide, was denied bail by the high court on Thursday on the basis of his children's statements and the contents of her diar |
Strike brake
on admission
The students' strike called by the SFI hampered the admission process in a number of city colleges on Thursday
Asutosh, City, Manindra Chandra, St Paul's and Jaipuria are some of the colleges that |
Fear of
flu ward
grounds
fliers
Calcuttans are rescheduling their overseas trips as much for fear of being quarantined at the ill-equipped Infectious Diseases Hospital on their return as for fear of the flu
According to tour oper |
Racing bikes kill
one, injure three
qOne person was killed and three were seriously injured after two motorcycles collided on National Highway 6 near Salap in Howrah on Thursday afternoon
Police took the four to Howrah District Hospi |
Protest at
dud IT firm
qAround 70 employees of dud IT firm Assurgent Technology Solutions demonstrated outside the Sector V office on Thursday and blocked the road near the Infinity building twice.The employees filed anothe |
Found hanging
qTaraknath Banerjee, 30,was found hanging in his Sonarpur home on Thursday.The family said he was undergoing psychiatric treatment after losing his job, police said. |
Judge posts
qTrinamul MLAs and members of the West Bengal Bar Council,Ashok Deb and Jyoti Priya Mallik,submitted a memorandum to governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi requesting him to ask the state government to fill up |
Death
qMaulana A.F.Karim Masumi,the former chairman of the West Bengal Wakf Board and former principal of Madarsa College, died in a nursing home on Thursday.He was 80. He is survived by a son and four daug |
WE ASK, YOU ANSWER - Seniors, just don't get physical
SANJANA BOHRA, Address not mentioned?Ragging is a crime in disguise that should be rooted out of the education system. It seems the pain and suffering of others give some students a high. Seniors shou |
City lab on
flu test map
Swine flu suspects in the city may soon be spared the ordeal of spending at least two nights in the squalid Infectious Diseases Hospital, Beleghata, waiting for test results
If things move accordin |
Dip in inflation but rise in shopping bill
Deflation is on paper,not on the pocket
For the first time in three decades, inflation slipped into negative - de- flation in the economist's lexicon - giving the average Calcutta shopper a glimmer |
Downturn boost for tech studies
What managers were doing six months ago, engineers have started doing now
Graduate engineers, in growing numbers, are queuing up for postgraduation courses as the global downturn forces companies t |
TOLLYWOOD - LEARNER'S GUIDE
Having played a heroine in two Tollywood films - Tomar Jonyo last year and Olot Palot this year - picking up Bengali is Punjabi actress Shriya's (picture left) top priority. But instead of hiring a la |
Minister's brother runs riot
A Union minister's brother held the New Market area to ransom during the morning rush hour, allegedly inciting a mob to attack police and block traffic to protest a relative's arrest in a petty disput |
FRESH AS A DAISY:
White rules the tinsel town wardrobe this summer.Arunima showed up at the Prabha Khaitan Foundation's book distribution programme in a cute white top teamed with blue jeans |
COOL COMFORT
Theheat got the better of Sabyasachi Chakraborty, also in white,on Tuesday afternoon.Feluda splashed his face with cold water to cool off on the sets of Anindya Sarkar's film Saathi Amaar Bondhu Amaar |
RAGS TO RICHES
Indrani Halder has slipped into the chappals of a middle-class homemaker in firsttime director Anil Harbachandani's Antim Shash Sundar
"I play Bibha, Subrat's (Dutta) wife
The twist in the tale |
PROSENJIT'S PYT:
Meet Sayantika - Prosenjit's new heroine;Prabhat Roy's find.This pretty young thing caught Roy's eye on ETV Bangla's dance show Nach Dhoom Macha Le. "Sayantika not only has a pretty face, she is hardw |
IIFA 2009 - GLOBAL CHARMING
BIPASHA BASU bagged the Female Style Icon award at IIFA
and one look at this snap and you know why. But then haven't
we seen Bips looking exactly the same too many times before?
Doesn't that ear |
What's new?
MTV has drawn up a fresh roster. Over the
next few weeks it is set to unveil a whole lot
of programmes as many of the old
favourite shows wind up. Ashish Patil, general
manager MTV India and senior vi |
BABY
FAT
FAT
WHAT MADE
MARILYN
MONROE
OPTIMALLY
FERTILE |
Serendipity in search of sculptures
Archaeologists are rejoicing over the chance discovery of two early
medieval sites while cataloguing sculptures in a city museumJalbandha and Bara villages, both in south Bengal, have con-
tribut |
Girl found hanging in bathroom
A 12-year-old girl was found
hanging in the bathroom of
her KC 50 home in Salt Lake on
Wednesday morningPreliminary investigations
suggested Akanksha Basu, a
Class VII student of A.I.W.CBuni |
Killer crossroads at crack of dawn
A 28-year-old marine engineer
and the driver of the taxi he
was travelling in died when
the vehicle collided with a state
bus at the Red Road
roundabout in front of the
Fort William main gate
around 5 |
Varsity firm on ragging penalty
The Jadavpur University authorities
on Wednesday refused
to repeal the punishment
of three architecture
students who allegedly ragged
a fresher last yearThe students, who have
served a year of th |
Students' strike
?SFI has called a statewide
students' strike on
Thursday to protest the
fatal Maoist assault on
its Jhargram zonal committee
member Abhijit
Mahato on Wednesday
morning. Asutosh College
has changed its |
Mishap death
?A young man was
killed and 13, including
a woman,were injured
in a collision between
two Tata Sumos on the
northern slope of the
Sealdah flyover on
Wednesday afternoonThe injured were
rushed to |
Metro snag
?A Metro Railway
train was vacated and
sent to Tollygunge station
on Wednesday
morning after officials
spotted that the doors of
a compartment were
not operating automaticallyAccording to an offi |
CBI probe
?A CBI team on
Wednesday interrogated
Alok Kumar Ghosh,
a sub-postmaster of
Park Street post office,
in connection with a Rs
40 lakh fraud at the post
office in Asylum Lane
in Taltala.The sleuths
also |
Rape case
?A high court division
bench on Wednesday rejected
the bail plea of
Tanmoy Mayukh Borai,
a third year student of a
reputable city college
arrested in connection
with the rape of a thirdyear
engineerin |
Burglary
?Bablu Bag, the security
guard who was arrested
on Tuesday in
connection with the
theft at BD87 in Salt
Lake Sector I,was remanded
in police custody
till June 22 on
Wednesday.Amiyakumar
Chanda,a resid |
Fall into river
?Masaur Ali, a 55-yearold
Budge Budge resident,
fell into the
Hooghly from a launch
on Wednesday morning.He
was on his way
to Bauria from Budge
Budge.The body could
not be traced till late on
Wednesda |
Shop fire
?A fire broke out in a
ground-floor shop in
Posta on Wednesday
morning.Two tenders
doused the flames
|
FROM the FLOORS - TOLLYWOOD - Sleuth saga
P
otboiler-maker Swapan
Ghoshal may have been the
last to announce a Byomkesh
Bakshi film but he has beaten both
Rituparno Ghosh and Anjan Dutt in
the race to make oneGhoshal wrapped up the shoot |
FROM the FLOORS - Rogue romance
director Raj Chakraborty has placed his camera to shoot
his third love story - an untitled project starring Soham
and PayelA large number of residents - mostly Nepalis, tribals
T
he sleepy Diesel |
PITTER PATTER - Rain yes, but not monsoon flow
A thunderstorm lashed the
city on Wednesday evening,
offering rare respite from the
swelter, but the weatherman
was quick to point out that this
was not monsoon rain"What we experienced in
the ev |
Union trouble shuts
down Joka school
A private school in Joka, with
more than 3,000 students on its
rolls,was "closed down indefinitely"
on Wednesday after a
few Group D employees and
local Trinamul Congress leaders
allegedly heckled tea |
Eye on sky
to escape
power cuts
Rain relief on Wednesday
evening was greeted with a
round of power cuts as CESC
kept its fingers crossed about
demand dipping with the Cel
sius slideThere were phased power
cuts in large parts of |
SWEAT SHIRT BEFORE... - Heat holiday heralds storm
If rain brought temporary
relief on Wednesday, the
government gave students
an extended respite by declaring
all primary, secondary
and higher secondary
institutions in the
state closed for three days |
Where the T20 hunt is on
India's T20 title hopes are
still alive at a Shyambazar
addressIn the drawing room of
11B Balaram Bose Street -
where framed newspaper
cut-outs of Dhoni and his
boys lifting the Twenty20
World Cu |
Web window
for admission
The state information technology
department on Tuesday
claimed to have developed a
software that would allow students
to apply to multiple colleges
through a website"Physical distribution and
sub |
Teacher held for
wife suicide
Basudeb Chakraborty, 43, a
lecturer of Jangipur College
in Murshidabad, was arrested
in Lake Town on Wednesday
morning on the charge of
abetting his wife's suicidePolice said Rakhi Chakra-
borty, |
Children from Manipur rescued
A group of 25 children from
Manipur, aged between six and
14 years, was rescued at Howrah
station on Wednesday morning
while being taken to Andhra
PradeshThree men who were ac-
companying the gro |
I DON'T THINK I'M SEXY'
The luscious model and finalist
of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, Gauhar
Khan gets candid about men,
marriage and moreDo guys have preconceived
notions about a model?
Only uneducated people think
of models |
