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The City Diary

Probe announced in dairy violence

Animal resources minister Anisur Rahman has ordered a probe into Monday's incident at Belgachhia Central Dairy, where employees heckled additional milk commissioner Tushar Mukhopadhyay and brought dairy operations to a standstill. The city's daily intake of milk from the dairy, around 80,000 litre, has been cut off since Tuesday. If the employees have any grievances, they can approach the higher authorities or even come to me. But such activities are not desirable,' Rahman said on Wednesday, while announcing the probe. The minister, who was on tour when the incident took place, summoned Mukhopadhyay on Wednesday and heard his account of how he was driven out of office. 'In the complaint submitted to me, the additional milk commissioner has stated that he was abused and insulted by the staff,' the minister said. Rahman asked Mukhopadhyay, who has been operating from Writers' Buildings for two days, to resume office at the dairy. Adequate security will be arranged there, the official was assured. enying that militant trade unionism was responsible for the incident, the minister blamed it on the current unrest on the polypack issue. 'We'll continue to supply milk in lassi and other packets till we find a new polypack supplier,' he said.

Puja specials for Puri

In order to clear the Puja rush, South Eastern Railway (SER) will run five additional pairs of weekly Puja specials between Howrah and Puri from October 17 to November 15. With this, the number of Howrah-Puri Puja specials has risen to 12 pairs. esides, SER will also run 27 pairs of Puja specials to Bangalore, Chennai and Mumbai. Of these, 13 pairs will run between Howrah and Bangalore. Seven pairs will run between Tatanagar and Egmore.

Life term

The third additional district and sessions judge of Howrah, Mrinal Kanti Chowdhury, sentenced 40-year-old Anil Mullick to life imprisonment on Wednesday. Mullick had throttled his wife and six-month-old daughter to death a year ago. he judge also ordered Mullick to pay a fine of Rs 10,000, failing which he will have to stay in jail for another month. ccording to the public prosecutor, Mullick had claimed that poverty had forced him to kill his wife and daughter.

Left rally

Left Front activists from Calcutta and South 24-Parganas will hold a dharna outside the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) headquarters on October 11 and 12 to protest the alleged failure of the Trinamul Congress-BJP board in providing minimum civic amenities to Calcuttans. rally will be organised in front of the CMC building on October 12.

Bangla scribes

A delegation from Bangladesh National Press Club met chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee at Writers' Buildings on Wednesday. he visiting journalists, who had a long chat with the chief minister, later quoted Bhattacharjee as having said that the warmth between the two countries should be maintained. He (Bhattacharjee) suggested that the neighbours should organise festivals of each other's films,' one of the visitors said.

Girl strangled

Sabita Khatun, 12, was strangled to death by a gang in Ramnagar, Baruipur, on Wednesday evening. A suspect has been arrested in this connection.

Booster station

The state government on Wednesday announced that a booster pumping station of three-million-gallon capacity will be set up in Garden Reach. Municipal affairs minister Asok Bhattacharya said the CMDA will spend Rs 10 crore to build an underground reservoir. Another Rs 7 crore will be spent by the civic body for distribution of water.

Tubewells

Mayor Subrata Mukherjee said on Wednesday that tubewells will be removed from areas that do not face a water crisis. The areas are mostly covered by the booster pumping stations.

Thumbs Up

To Calcutta Clinical Laboratory for organising a free health check-up camp in Behala