Новости за 21.12.2015

Child welfare activists as well as serving offi cials mince no words in pointing out that correctional homes for juvenile delinquents in Tamil Nadu actually aggravate the problems in the children by pushing them towards violence and vices like drugs and liquor.

The release of the man, who as a minor raped and brutally assaulted Nirbhaya in 2012, has thrown wide open a debate about the juvenile justice system and the reformation process (of juveniles in conflict with the law), parts of which have been termed inadequate recently by a Madras high court panel in Tamil Nadu.

After serving for over 32 years, the country’s first indigenously designed and built missile-guided frigate Indian Naval Ship (INS) Godavari is scheduled to be decommissioned on December 23. It was commissioned on December 10, 1983.

On a day the release of the minor convict in the Nirbahaya rape case kicked up a storm countrywide, a juvenile justice court in Salt Lake on Sunday granted bail to a 17-year-old boy, accused of raping a minor in Naihati.

The Kolkata Police’s effort to cut down on accidents on the Basanti Highway seems to have proved successful but officers believe the PWD will have to chip in, by installing powerful street lamps, to stop all mishaps. Street lights is especially required to see through the winter fog and smog.

Many of those who get caught in cyber crime cases tend to think that the long arm of the law will not get them as they think that the police are “backward”, says advocate Prashant Mali.

Netaji researchers and activists have dismissed Subhas Chandra Bose's grandnephew Ashish Ray's claim that there was no information on the freedom fighter being in Soviet Russia after 1945.

Three days after a 23-year-old woman died of burn injuries at her residence in Kandivli, a 28-year-old man has been arrested by officials of Malwani police station for allegedly sexually assaulting the woman and trying to kill her.

Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued fresh summons to the owners of two Kolkata-based trusts in the black money muddle. Owners of the trusts, now in Mumbai, have been evading the ED probe claiming they don't own the accounts under lens. ED is also seeking intervention of Germany and Switzerland in procuring details of the accounts which appeared in the HSBC list.

South Eastern Railway (SER) is crying foul over the manner in which Howrah Municipal Corporation (HMC) moved the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Eastern Zone Bench and obtained an ex-parte stay on construction of a new station building at Santragachi.

A state-level kabbadi player was shot dead by two unidentified motorcycle-borne men in Rohtak on Sunday.

The state government's ambitious `Sabooj Sathi' project to distribute nearly four million bicycles to students of Class X, XI and XII has translated to bad news for cycle traders.

Rebel Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) leader and MLA Harka Bahadur Chhetri got a rousing welcome in his home town on Sunday after the announcement of the Kalimpong district. He hinted at floating a new political party to counter the GJM that is also claiming credit for the formation of the new district.

A cement company will commence operations in the state after procuring land without any “intervention“ from the government at a site few kilometres from where Tata abandoned its Nano car project after vehement opposition from Mamata Banerjee over forceful land acquisition.

Worried over the deaths in north bengal tea gar dens, chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday sent her envoy to the gardens to look in to the condition of the workers there.

A study is being conducted to develop an integrated transport app in the city , which promises to cut down commute times and reduce pollution by rationalizing the various modes of transport that one needs to take to reach from Point A to Point B.

Breaking free of corporate trappings, they have turned their back on a safe, conventional life to take the plunge. An enterprising group comprising geologists, gamers and computer science graduates have walked out of the cushy confines of their cubicles to loat a startup that deals with unique travel options that combines tourism with education.

From prawn on toast and mushy velvet cake to carols and Latin jazz, revellers jumped from one sphere to another at the Christmas festival at Allen Park on Sunday. A bright, cool weather kept the energy level high and the fifth day of the festival was marked with a Christmas march that had 600 participants from various schools.

Forty years is time enough to change everything around us, be it human values, social reactions or personal relationships.

The city shivered in pre-Christmas chill as the mercury slid to 13°C on Sunday , making it the coldest day of the season so far.

Prodded by Mamata Banerjee, Howrah mayor Rathin Chakraborty is splurging crores to set up a sprawling park to showcase the chief minister's achievements.

The CBI, having filed a charge-sheet in the Rs 6,172 crore Bank of Baroda scam, will soon send a detailed assessment report to the government and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) listing loopholes that allowed the scam and will also recommend corrective measures.

Government is likely to set up an entity for monitoring and intervention in case of sharp variation in prices of essential commodities.

Ahead of the Christmas and New Year season, security has been beefed up at malls and important tourist spots in the city following a terror alert from the Intelligence Bureau. Police said that the city has been put on alert but there is no specific threat.