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The City Diary

Bail for trustees over funds row

The Calcutta Metropolitan Magistrate?s Court on Thursday ordered detention of five trustees of La Martiniere for Boys and La Martiniere for Girls till the end of the proceedings, for their failure to submit provident fund returns of the employees. The court later granted them bail against a surety bond of Rs 2,000 each. ilda Peacock (principal of La Martiniere for Girls), Richard Flyn (former principal of La Martiniere for Boys), Percy Jones, Andrew Simik, Gilian Rosemary Hart and Dilip Bhattacharya were among those present in the court. he petition against the trustee board was lodged by an official of the regional provident fund, on the basis of an allegation by the employees? association of the schools. The court had asked the members to be present on Thursday. spokesman for the schools said: ?This was a matter of mere technicality and has been sorted out. The court has disposed of the matter.?

Trade school on Bypass

The Union commerce and industry ministry will set up an export-import management institute on EM Bypass, chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee announced on Thursday. He was speaking at a programme organised by Netaji Subhas Open University at Benfish Bhawan, in Salt Lake. hattacharjee also announced that the government, in association with the Calcutta Municipal Corporation, would set up a market for ornamental fish on Galiff Street. An institute for research in marine food will be set up in collaboration with the Vietnam government.

Housing estate

Power minister Mrinal Banerjee on Thursday laid the foundation stone of a housing estate in New Town, Rajarhat. Rabi Rashmi Abasan, developed by West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency (WBREDA) and the ministry of non-conventional energy sources, will be the first of its kind in the country to have a solar energy-based power generation system.

School plea

Justice J. Bhattacharya of Calcutta High Court on Thursday admitted a petition, moved on behalf of the principal of St. Augustine Public School, in Howrah, challenging the legality of ?administrative interference? of the ICSC board in the affairs of the institution. The judge, however, declined to pass any injunction on the board?s decision to cancel the ?home-centre facility? of students appearing in the ICSE exams. The board had asked the school authorities to hand over all examination-related documents to the authorities of Don Bosco School, in Liluah, where the students are supposed to write their tests.

Fake cheque

Two persons were arrested on Thursday while trying to encash a ?false cheque? at the Ballygunge branch of UCO Bank. The police said the duo on Wednesday had deposited a forged bearer cheque for Rs 25,000. The two identified themselves as Dipak Maiti and Joydeb Roy, but police suspect these names could be false.

Green fair

The second Environment Fair, organised by the state pollution control board, began at Salt Lake stadium on Wednesday. It?s on till Sunday.

Choked by fumes

Rabinder Seuli, 20, died of suffocation early on Thursday in a house in the Lake area. Police said the owner of the house, Papia Guha, had hired a generator after CESC snapped power connection. Seuli was sent to the house on Wednesday evening by the owner of the generator to run the machine. He slept in the room where the generator was installed. On Thursday morning, the room was filled with smoke and Seuli was found critically ill. He was taken to MR Bangur Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Thumbs Up

To Lifeline Health Care services for organising a medical camp on Lenin Sarani on February 26