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Anti-malaria drive in slums
The civic health department will organise a spot blood test campaign in slum areas from next week to detect malignant malaria. The campaign was launched following a directive from the state health department. Health officials will collect blood samples from people suffering from fever. “The main objective is to isolate the people infected with Plasmodium falciparum — the pathogen in malignant malaria,” said Debdwaipayan Chattopadhyay, the chief municipal health officer.
Nasscom council
Nasscom’s first regional council in the country will be set up in eastern India. The primary objective of the council would be to give a boost to the IT industry in the region. It will organise a major IT exposition on November 11 and 12 , 2008, in Calcutta to showcase the strengths of the region.
Daughter killed
A 28-year-old daily wage earner is absconding after he allegedly strangulated his nine-month-old daughter at his Palpara residence in Regent Park area on Sunday night. According to his wife Tina, Biswajit wanted a son. The body has been sent for post-mortem.
Road death
A 44-year-old hardware shop owner died after being hit by a truck at the intersection of Rajarhat Road and New Town Road around 3pm on Monday. According to police, Samar Mukherjee, a resident of Rajarhat, was on a motorcycle when the cement-laden truck hit him from behind. He was rushed to a nursing home, where doctors declared him dead on arrival. The driver fled with the truck.
Goods vehicles
VIP Road will be thrown open for goods vehicles between 11pm and 5am from Tuesday. No goods carriages were allowed to ply on the stretch for the last three years. The movement of all other types of handcarts, rickshaws and horse-drawn carts bound for the airport are still restricted to ensure smooth traffic flow.
Flight delay
Six flights were forced to hover for about 20 minutes on an average over Calcutta airport before landing on Monday afternoon as visibility had dropped due to heavy rain and the secondary runway does not have Instrumental Landing System (ILS).
Fire in house
Goods worth Rs 11 lakh were damaged in the early hours of Monday when a fire broke out in the ground floor of a three-storeyed house in Salt Lake, owned by Subrata Chowdhury, a pilot. Three fire tenders brought the blaze under control in an hour.
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TO purwanchal nagarik samity for commissioning an ambulance for providing medical service in villages
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