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The City Diary

Patient suicide at nursing home

A patient committed suicide by jumping off the seventh floor of a private hospital in Salt Lake on Friday. Raj Bullav Singh, 64, a resident of Sakuntala Park, Behala, was admitted to the hospital on December 3 for a coronary bypass surgery. He was to be released on December 14, but his family members did not turn up to take him back. Police suspect this led Singh to depression and prompted him to take his life. He jumped off from a toilet window.

Promoter shot dead

A 45-year-old promoter, Kashinath Ghosh, was shot dead by two unidentified men on Friday evening on Gopal Lal Thakur Road, in the Baranagar police station area. Police said Ghosh was sitting at a roadside tea stall when two youths on a motorcycle stopped in front of him. In a matter of seconds, they fired two rounds at Ghosh from close range. he victim slumped to the ground and died on the spot. The killers then rode off towards Sinthee. Praveen Kumar, superintendent of North 24-Parganas police, said they have come across some clues about the gunmen. No one has been arrested so far.

Breakthrough

The Cancer Centre Welfare Home and Research Institute in Thakurpukur clinched a major breakthrough in laparoscopic cancer surgery recently when its surgical uro-oncology team successfully removed a patient?s entire urinary bladder and prostrate through laparoscopy.

Burglary

Burglars made away with more than Rs 1 lakh in cash and jewellery from a house in Behala on Thursday night. Police said that the criminals struck when the house-owner, Basudeb Das Mazumdar, and his family were away. No arrests have been made in connection with the case.

IIT meet

IIT Kharagpur will hold a two-day conference on ?MEMS and Semiconductor Nanotechnology? from December 20 as a part of the World Year of Physics celebrations. Scientists and researchers active in the area from across the world will take part in the conference, which will be inaugurated by scientist H. Gleiter of nstitute for Nanotechnology, Germany.

Highrise suit

Opposition leader in Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) Javed Khan on Friday moved a public interest litigation (PIL) in the high court, challenging the viability of housing project South City on Prince Anwar Shah Road. e alleged that the said project would change the topography of the entire city. He also claimed that the project was sanctioned in violation of the Town and Country Planning Act and CMC building rules. division bench of Calcutta High Court, presided over by Chief Justice V.S. Sirpurkar, after hearing the petition, asked the CMC, state government and the developers to file affidavits regarding the matter.

Taxmen sit-in

Members of the Joint Council of Action of Income Tax Associations (West Bengal) organised a daylong sit-in at Ayakar Bhavan, in Salt Lake, on Friday, to protest the death of Lopsang Bhutia, an income tax officer. hutia died on December 10 in a nursing home in Jalpaiguri. The agitators alleged that Bhutia was harassed at work. This took a toll on his health and eventually resulted in his death, they claimed. The protesters have demanded removal of the accused officers and a job for Bhutia?s widow on compensatory grounds.

Thumbs Up

TO Lions club of calcutta adarsh for organising free eye screening and health check-up camps.