Dunlop meeting

Calcutta, May 22: Labour minister Mrinal Banerjee has called separate meetings with the management and trade unions of Dunlop’s Sahagunj factory tomorrow.

Trouble has been brewing between workers and the Pawan Ruia management over dues since the two sides agreed on certain terms for reopening the factory in early May.

Rice park

Calcutta: Bengal’s rice bowl, Burdwan, will soon get a rice park. Agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan, who met the chief minister at Writers’ Buildings on Monday, said it will produce various items from the straw, grain, bran and husk of rice. The park, to be run by women, would roll out 29 prod- ucts ? from oil to paper.

Crash death

Calcutta: A 35-year-old motorcyclist, Indranil Haldar, was killed at the MG Road-Central Avenue intersection on Monday night. Police said a taxi had hit the two-wheeler from behind.

Good cop

Calcutta: A traffic sergeant went out of his way on Monday night to locate a bag a tourist had left behind in a bus on his return from Digha. Joydeb Guha, a Belghoria resident, wouldn’t probably have been able to find the bag in the deserted terminus but for sergeant Abhilash Haldar.

Ammo haul

Bankura: Policemen intercepted Safikul Sheikh because he was moving suspiciously at Saltora bus stand in Bankura. They found in his bag 500 gelatine sticks and 100 detonators.