Alipurduar, Nov. 16: A tea festival will be organised here from January 2. The backward classes welfare department will host the three-day festival on the parade ground.
Jogesh Barman, the minister in-charge, said: “Our aim is to bring the culture, dress, food habit of the backward classes people into limelight. We will bring two or three tribal troops from Assam.”
The department will provide Rs 10 lakh for the fest. The Dooars festival will be held from January five to 11 here, the minister added.
Alipurduar: Joachim Baxla, the Alipurduar MP, on Sunday donated a computer to Alipurduar Special Correctional Home for the inmates.
Calcutta: Two unattended bags triggered a bomb scare at Calcutta airport’s international terminal on Sunday afternoon. Airport officials said the bags were left on a trolley in front of the Jet Airways check-in counter at 4.30pm. Bomb disposal squad men found clothes and other items in the bags.
Siliguri: The Ramakrishna Vedanta Ashram and Avedananda Mission organised a free health check-up camp at Gosaipur in Bagdogra on Sunday. One hundred villagers of the area were given treatment and medication.
Siliguri: Students of the Himali Boarding School, Kurseong, staged three shows of Bombay Dreams in Thimphu on Tuesday to mark the crowning of the new king Jigmi Keshar Namgyal Wangchuk. The school had been invited by the coronation committee.
Calcutta: Nearly 300 patients of Calcutta National Medical College’s Raja Rammohan Roy block staged an agitation on Sunday to protest the regular delay in serving lunch and the quality of food. The protesters refused the lunch and filed a written complaint with the hospital authorities. Patients alleged that lunch is served at 2pm when it should be served at noon.
