Suri, May 30: A 16-member team from Visva-Bharati, headed by vice-chancellor Sushanta Duttagupta, today left for China for a week on invitation from Tongji University in Shanghai and Yunnan University in Kunming.
Duttagupta said the two universities would honour Tagore on 100 years of his winning the Nobel. The team of Sangeet Bhavana members will perform songs and dance in China.
Alipurduar: Three elephants were killed and another was injured on being hit by a speeding train at Mograhat on the Alipurduar-Siliguri route on Thursday, disrupting train services for about 10 hours.
Tamluk: Nine CPM leaders in East Midnapore have been granted four days’ CID custody in connection with the 2007 Nandigram recapture.
Behrampore: A group of villagers in Murshidabad ransacked the paediatric ward of a Behrampore hospital on Thursday, accusing doctors and the staff of negligence that led to a baby’s death.
