Amal Dutta

Kolkata, July 11 (IANS) The country's first professional full-time football coach Amal Dutta will be cremated on Monday with full state honours, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced here as hundreds of football lovers poured in to offer their last respects.

Mohun Bagan appointed Jahar Das as its coach replacing Amal Dutta who relinquished his post protesting appointment of a goalkeeping coach and a physical instructor.

Former India international and Mohun Bagan legend Bhabani Roy, who excelled as the country's first 'overlapping full-back' under the tutelage of the great Amal Dutta, died in Kolkata on Monday following a prolonged illness.

Eastern Railway (ER) and South Eastern Railway (SER) have assessed damage and loss suffered to the tune of over Rs 84 crore during the December 13-15 agitation against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and National Register of Citizens.

Prisoners lodged in city jails will now get an opportunity to step out of the confines of the four walls to test their sporting skills in open playgrounds.

Biswajit Bhattacharya is the new Mohun Bagan coach. The former India skipper replaces Jahar Das who will go back to the Mohun Bagan SAIL Academy in Durgapur.

Researchers and experts, who gathered in the city on Wednesday for an awareness programme expressed concerns at the deteriorating condition of groundwater pollution.

Mohun Bagan on Tuesday sacked Amal Dutta to complete an extraordinary cycle of events.

Questions have been raised about Mohun Bagan goalkeeper Subrata Paul's integrity with the serious allegation of his being bribed to deliberately underperform.

Former India and Mohun Bagan winger Pranab Ganguly, who is best remembered for his double strike against East Bengal in the club's 1969 IFA Shield win, died after suffering a cardiac arrest here.

A Class-XII student, who had gone to Ichhagunj ghat on the banks of river Bhagirathi in Lalbag to attend the funeral of his grandmother, drowned in the river on Monday.

Rudraprasad Sengupta, theatre personality: I had a terrible experience during Durga Puja, which kept me away from this festivities for a long time. My beloved elder brother, Shibaprasad, died during the immersion ceremony of the goddess.

Thirty soccer lovers from the city who paid several crores to watch the World Cup finals are stranded in Frankfurt - the victims of a fraud by a travel agency.

India goalkeeper Subrata Paul will leave for Canada to try out with the Vancouver Whitecaps, and will be offered a deal if he attracts attention during trial.

Bhaichung Bhutia considers himself fortunate to have played under the tutelage of PK Banerjee, who died on Friday, and recalled how the iconic footballer-turned-coach had a huge role to play in one of his most memorable performances. Bhutia struck a famous hat-trick to script an epic 4-1 win for East Bengal against Mohun Bagan in the 1997 Federation Cup semifinals in front of a record turnout.

Bhaichung Bhutia is stuck between a rock and a hard place, but he is not backing off. Upended on the question of fitness first by Mohun Bagan coach.

Mohan Bagan announced that Subrata Bhattacharya would be the team's new technical director while Prasanta Banerjee will be the coach.

Indian Super League outfit Delhi Dynamos on Monday appointed Mridul Banerjee as their new assistant coach. Banerjee takes over from Shakti Chauhan who left the side earlier this month.

KOLKATA: Former Army chief and Rajya Sabha MP, Shankar Roy Chowdhury, has suggested the framing of a legislation to spell out the role of the Territorial Army and to ensure that civilians do not face difficulties with their employers while on army duty.

The Maidan's unruly crowd behaviour once again came to fore as Mohun Bagan fans allegedly spit on their coach Sanjoy Sen who quit minutes after the club suffered a shock loss to minnows Chennai City FC in an I-League football fixture on Tuesday.

KOLKATA: Looking around, many may want to throw the question back at us – with a little twist, of course.

Subhash Bhowmick was down in the dumps with no visible light at the end of the tunnel when Pradeep Banerjee gave his career a second lease of life, something he is grateful to this day. As Banerjee finally lost his battle against prolonged illness, his students wanted to celebrate an accomplished life that their "beloved Pradip Da" lived.

KOLKATA: There has been a considerable slump in the travel industry after the terrorist attacks in USA on September 11. The situation has become even more grim from October 7 after the US air force went into action in Afghanistan.

It is time for the Public Vehicles Department (PVD) to take a lesson or two from its counterparts in the districts, namely Alipore in South 24-Parganas and Barasat in North 24-Parganas.

During 2004 Lok Sabha elections, Sheikh Jalaluddin, Ataur Rahman and Naimul Haque, worked from morning till midnight for their party candidate.

Police closed down the Prayag group's Behala office on Tuesday night following the chit-fund row.