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Fair, match take toll on traffic
Traffic was disrupted on EM Bypass and in parts of Salt
Lake on Sunday afternoon and evening, following a huge turnout
at the Book Fair and the Mohun Bagan-Dempo football match,
both at Yuva Bharati Krirangan. The chaos forced the convoy
of chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who returned
from New Delhi late in the evening, to take the New Town
bypass on way to the city.
With the crowd spilling over from the barricaded footpath
on to the Bypass, vehicular movement was disrupted on Narkeldanga
Main Road and Beleghata Main Road. Several visitors had
to park their cars on roads leading to Salt Lake, as the
car park at Subhas Sarobar was chock-a-block.
Two killed in mishaps
Two persons were killed in road accidents in the city on
Sunday. A 50-year-old woman was knocked down by a private
bus on Mahatma Gandhi Road, near Chhabighar cinema, around
1.45 pm. She was taken to NRS Medical College and Hospital,
where she died.
In the other mishap, a man in his mid-20s was hit by a
private bus on the western slope of Narkeldanga bridge.
He was taken to NRS Medical College and Hospital, where
he died.
Flight cancelled
An Alliance Air craft had to be grounded at Calcutta airport
on Sunday, following a drop in the cabin pressure. The plane
first took off for Dimapur at 10.25 am, but had to return
at 11.03 am.
Later, it made another attempt to leave for Tezpur and
Jorhat, but failed. An airline official said some passengers
were put on another flight, while the rest will leave for
their destinations on Monday.
Items seized
A huge quantity of smuggled items, including Chinese-made mosquito nets, were seized on the Darjeeling Mail at Sealdah station on Sunday. The raid on the train followed a tip-off.
Olympiad
More than 400 students from 45 city schools have been selected for the state-level final of the 9th Science Olympiad, to be held in New Delhi. The students are from Class III to XII. The selection followed a test at Future Campus School, in Sonarpur, on Sunday.
Thumbs Up
To ROTARY CLUB OF BIDHANNAGAR
for donating Rs 23,500 to Ramakrishna Mission Ashram, Asansol
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