CBSE exam

• CALCUTTA: The physical education exam for CBSE Class XII will be held on April 13 at 10.30am. The exam had been originally scheduled for April 9. The change has been made because of "administrative reasons".

Bus hits man

• KASBA: An empty school bus hit a pedestrian near VIP Bazar on the Bypass around 4pm on Wednesday. Babuli Das, 32, a resident of Tagore Park in Kasba, is being treated at SSKM hospital for multiple injuries. The bus driver has been arrested.

Inmates on jail rampage 

• CHINSURAH: Some inmates of Hooghly jail in Chinsurah clashed with jail officials on Wednesday. A few set furniture on fire, police said. Trouble started when some inmates were being taken to the jail after being produced in court, the police said. While being scanned on their way in, Nepu apparently attacked a jail official. Others joined in and attacked jail officials who retaliated. Later, a police team led by Ajay Kumar, commissioner of Chandernagore commissionerate, brought the situation under control. 

Road repair

• KALIKAPUR: The civic body will work on the road between Kalikapur and Avishar shopping complex along Prince Anwar Shah connector. Also, the damaged surface of Sambunath Pandit Street in Bhowanipore will be replaced with  mastic asphalt. 

Summer special trains

• HOWRAH: Eastern Railway will run 100 summer special trains on various routes to clear the rush of passengers. Among them is the Kolkata-Chhapra-Asansol Summer Special train will leave Kolkata station on Mondays at 8.05pm from April 2 to June 25. The Howrah-Raxaul-Asansol weekly Summer Special will leave Howrah at 3pm on Fridays between April 6 and June 29. The trains will have AC, sleeper and general second-class coaches.

Presi admission

• COLLEGE STREET: The joint entrance board has advanced Presidency University's postgraduate admission test from May 13 to May 12 because the earlier date clashed with the Indian Statistical Institute's postgraduate and research-level entrance test. The board had earlier said the master's test would be held either on May 12 or May 13 or over the two days.

Online zoo tickets

ALIPORE: An online ticket service was launched at Alipore zoo on Tuesday. Tickets will be available on eticketaliporezoo.com and people can use debit and credit cards (Visa and Mastercard) apart from Internet banking for payment. Smartphone users will receive an email with a QR code that will be scanned at the gates for paperless validation. Visitors can bring printouts of tickets with the QR code, a zoo official said. Gates 1 and 2 (opposite the zoo aquarium) have been allotted for visitors with online tickets.

RKM programme

• BASIRHAT: The unit of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission in Sikra-Kulingram, North 24-Parganas will hold a cultural programme on January 19 on the occasion of the birthday of Swami Brahamananda. Anup Jalota (vocal), Ronu Majumdar (flute), Bickram Ghosh (tabla) and Tarun Bhattacharya (santoor) will perform at the event, to be held from 10am to 1pm. A CD of devotional songs sung by Srikanta Acharya, Rupankar, Raghav Chattopadhyay, Saikat Mitra and others will be launched at the programme.

Man held for cop assault

• PATULI: A man was arrested on the charge of assaulting a traffic sergeant on Monday night. Raja Roy, the sergeant with Jadavpur traffic guard, was on his way duty when a car hit him on Patuli Link Road around 6.30pm, police said. Pijush Banerjee, 31, tried to flee but failed and the two got into an argument. The sergeant alerted Lalbazar and a team from Garia traffic guard and officers of Patuli police station reached the spot. The car was seized and Banerjee taken to the police station. He was subjected to a breathalyser test and arrested.

Hindu School fest

COLLEGE STREET: Education minister Partha Chatterjee will inaugurate Radhanath Sikdar Bhavan (smart classroom) and a souvenir to commemorate the 200th year of Hindu School at an event on the school premises on January 20. The vice-chancellor of Rabindra Bharati University, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, will be the special guest on the occasion.

Trains delayed

• HOWRAH: Fog in the northern parts of the country continued to disrupt long-distance trains to and from Calcutta on Wednesday. The Howrah-Delhi Kalka Mail and the Howrah-Patna Janshatabdi Express were among those delayed, a railway official said.

2 injured in Salt Lake crash

• SALT LAKE: A motorcyclist and his pillion passenger were injured after the rider lost control and hit a car that was making a U-turn near the upcoming Wipro Metro station on Wednesday. Both were flung off the bike that skidded for a few metres. Some motorists and traffic cops took the two to Bidhannagar Sub-divisional Hospital where they were treated.

Trains cancelled

SANTRAGACHHI: Some trains to and from Calcutta have been cancelled between January 22 and 25 because of upgrade of signalling work in the Bilaspur division of the South-East Central Railway. The Shalimar-Jaipur Special leaving Shalimar on January 22 and the down train on January 24, the Jabalpur-Santragachhi Special leaving Jabalpur on January 24 and the Up train from Santragachhi on January 24 are among the ones cancelled, said a railway official.

Woman dead

• DUM DUM: A 70-year-old woman died of head injuries on Wednesday. Shibani Chakrabarty used to live alone in a flat on mall Road in Dum Dum since her husband's death last year. She told her next-door neighbour on Tuesday that she had injured her head, police said. The neighbour apparently took her to a private healthcare unit in Nagerbazar where she died on Wednesday. The police have started a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder based on her daughter's complaint.