Dilip Mukherjee

Under pressure to increase frequency and the number of services, the Metro Railway is facing a severe crisis. It doesn’t have enough motormen to take the number of daily trains from the existing 270 to 320 by the end of March, 2013.

Biswarup Mandal had his first ride in the brand new air-conditioned Metro rake on Tuesday morning. In 10 minutes he was swearing to god that he would not get on a Metro train ever again, AC or not.

It was a mid-week treat for music lovers as master flautist Steve Gorn performed to a packed audience on Wednesday.

A little over 12 hours after the CMRI Hospital vandalism, violence erupted in another hospital barely a kilometer away. On Thursday midnight, the state-run SSKM Hospital turned into a war zone as touts and hoodlums engaged in a pitched battle with junior doctors following an attack on a fellow doctor on duty. One of the attackers was arrested.

KOLKATA: Religious leaders should spread awareness about AIDS among the masses, say doctors. "This can help to control the spread of the dreaded disease," said cancer expert and president of the Indian Academy of Paediatrics Dilip Mukherjee at an AIDS workshop organised at the Ramkrishna Seva Sadan in the city on Sunday.

The mason, Md Hamruj Alam (38), who allegedly murdered Bansdroni businessman Dilip Mukherjee (78) and his wife Swapna (71), was inebriated when he had sneaked through the open main gate and waited near the staircase on July 28

A middle-class locality in Bansdroni woke up to the murder of a septuagenarian couple, who had been staying in the area since the 1970s, on Tuesday morning.

KOLKATA: Facilities for mass detection of genetic disorders before and after child birth should be popularised to warn people of impending health risks and allow effective use of health care resources, eminent medical experts said here on Friday.

The audience was taken on a journey of melodious harmony, as the ghazals of music mogul Jagjit Singh, sung by renowned ghazal singer R D Kailey, filled the hall at Premchand Rangshala here on Saturday evening.

PATNA: Experts participating at a continuing medical education programme (CME) organised by the east zone chapter of Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP) on “Multi Drug Resistant Infections in Children” on Saturday said that unnecessary administration of antibiotics was making children drug resistant.

There’s no immediate relief on the cards for Metro commuters. In the next two years, all that the Metro will receive are two AC rakes from Integral Coach Factory (ICF), Chennai, and these won’t allow increase in frequency or improvement in services.

The homicide wing of the detective department, on the fifth day of investigations into the Bansdroni double murder, concentrated on getting the maximum possible leads from technical evidence collected so far.

KOLKATA: Metro Railway services in the city might as well be affected from early September, if the authorities do not take immediate steps for repairing the defective coaches still being used in the network.

The CPM may have been in favour of Paschimbanga but veteran communists who fought against the proposed merger of the state with Bihar in 1956, claimed that they had taken up the cause of Bangla.

KOLKATA: The running staff of Kolkata's Metro Rail or the people directly involved in running the regular underground train services decided on Monday to allow a month's time before taking any major move like refusing to drive the trains.

In a crucial breakthrough in the Bansdroni double murder case where septuagenarian Dilip Mukherjee (78) and his wife Swapna Mukherjee (71) were murdered last Monday, the cops have been able to confirm that someone was present at the house till 11pm and that the entry to the house was “extremely amicable”.

Union railway minister Mamata Banerjee has sought a report from Metro Railway authorities into Tuesday's incident of pandrol clips being found lying on the tracks of Tollygunge Metro station.

The double murder of septuagenarian Dilip Mukherjee and his wife Swapna at Ashoke Avenue in Bansdroni could not have come at a worse time for the locality that is trying to come to terms with the changing demography

Details emerging from various financial statements of the elderly couple, who were found murdered at their Bansdroni residence last Tuesday, have confirmed that they had more wealth at their disposal than initially thought of. The accused — who was “extremely close to the victims” — was well aware of their financial details.

While a section of employees and officers were happy after Mamata Banerjee granted Metro Railway the status of a railway zone, there are some who believe that this was nothing short of a gimmick.