KOLKATA: A 22-year-old man died on Friday after being allegedly beaten up by bouncers at a bar the previous night. His death triggered a mob rampage at the bar in Dum Dum's Shyamnagar on Saturday evening, with the protesters placing the body on the road and disrupting traffic for hours. Madhav Das, a resident of Naskarpara near Chinar Park, had gone to Kingston Bar near Shelly Cinema around 9.30pm on Thursday. When he failed to return till midnight, his wife got...more »
KOLKATA: The police have finally started investigating the actual reason behind the death of Oindila Das, albeit a week late. Six days after the 11-year-old died, investigators on Tuesday reached her...
The Times of India 2013-09-18KOLKATA: Principal Helen Sircar had called police to give protection to teachers and students on a day when outgoing Madhyamik students were having their pre-test viva voce while other classes were...
The Times of India 2013-09-18Threat call to principal, finger at drug accused OUR BUREAU Debashis Bhowmick, the principal of Rishi Bankim Chandra Evening College, on Thursday. (Bhabatosh Chakraborty)...
The Telegraph India 2012-07-06KOLKATA: An armed gang barged into a house in Dum Dum on Tuesday morning, shot a youth twice while he was asleep, hurled bombs and fled. The 32-year-old victim, Gour Das, was rushed to RG Kar Hospital...
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KOLKATA: A 16-year-old schoolgirl was critically injured after she fell off a motorbike and a private bus ran over her leg on Jessore Road at Kajipara in Dum Dum on Thursday. The girl was admitted to a private nursing home near Nagerbazar and the doctors said they might have to amputate the leg. Locals...
The Times of India 2013-08-01The CCTV footage of a bar in Nagerbazar shows Madhab Das, who died after allegedly being assaulted by bouncers, fall off the stairs but what led to the fall remains unclear. There was an altercation between some employees and Das, followed by a scuffle, said Debasish Bej, deputy commissioner of police, detective department,...
The Telegraph India 2013-12-23KOLKATA: Two TV journalists reporting on a murder that was allegedly the fallout of a Trinamool Congress faction fight were on Friday brutally beaten up by goons working for a local leader of the ruling party. One of journalists was dragged into a room and doused with petrol and says he would have been burnt alive had local residents not come to his rescue in the nick of time....
The Times of India 2013-06-07KOLKATA: Dum Dum's Purba Kamalapur area turned into a mini battlefield on Wednesday with at least 6,000 reality show contestants and their guardians ransacking a studio compound near airport's gate No.1 off Jessore Road and clashing with cops. Police said four people were seriously injured and hospitalized. Three woman constables were also hurt. According to unofficial...
The Times of India 2013-11-07KOLKATA: Dum Dum's Purba Kamalapur area turned into a mini battlefield on Wednesday with at least 6,000 reality show contestants and their guardians ransacking a studio compound near airport's gate No.1 off Jessore Road and clashing with cops. Police said four people were seriously injured and hospitalized. Three woman constables were also hurt. According to unofficial...
The Times of India 2013-11-07KOLKATA: Tension prevailed in the Barrackpore court on Thursday afternoon after Prasenjit Majumdar, a chit fund owner of Annex Infrastructure India Ltd who was absconding since March 26, 2013 and arrested from Jagaddal in North 24-Parganas on Wednesday night, was produced in the court. Hundreds of agents and investors attacked the prison van in which Majumdar was being taken...
The Times of India 2013-04-25Madhav was an 8th century Indian physician who wrote the Nidāna, which soon assumed a position of authority. In the 79 chapters of this book, he lists diseases along with their causes, symptoms, and complications. He also included a special chapter on smallpox (masūrikā).
Ayurveda used a system of inoculation to protect against smallpox. Treatment was done by inoculation with year-old smallpox matter. The inoculators would travel all across India pricking the skin of the arm with a small metal instrument using "variolous matter" taken from pustules produced by the previous year's inoculations. The effectiveness of this system was confirmed by the British doctor J.Z. Holwell based on observations made during his residence in Bengal in an account to the College of Physicians in London in 1767.
