An HS examinee went missing on Monday from the Baisakhi area of Salt Lake on his way to the examination centre. The 18-year-old was accompanied by his father. Police said the resident of Chandiberia in Kestopur asked his father to wait at the ferry ghat and left. When his father called him up on his cellphone, the boy said he had left a note in his diary explaining his action. The note said he would not return home. A probe revealed the boy had failed the test exams but hadn’t told his family about it. A missing complaint has been lodged.Manjit Singh, an alleged extortionist and associate of gangster Babloo Srivastava, was brought to the city from Uttar Pradesh and produced in an Alipore court on Monday.anjit Singh, alias Mange, was arrested after a shootout with the cops on Park Street in 1999. Later that year, he escaped from SSKM Hospital on way to court.he court on Monday asked Mange to be produced on March 27. The UP police team took him back since a number of murder and abduction cases are pending against him.Actress Rita Koiral’s 24-year-old son hanged himself in their EE Block home in Salt Lake on Sunday night. Police said Amartya Koiral, a chartered accountancy student, was suffering from depression.A court order on Monday restrained Floatel from playing music till April 17. The order followed a petition by Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL), which complained that the hotel authorities were not paying a licence fee for the music they were playing. PPL is an organisation of the owners of music recorders. According to Section 34 of the copyright act, organisers of soirees and owners of hotels, bars and restaurants were bound to pay the licence fee for playing music registered under PPL.Saptarshi Sanyal, Rishin Sengupta and Tanmoy Mayukh Borai, accused of raping a 21-year-old girl from Malda in a south Calcutta apartment on February 28, were denied bail on Monday. The trio — aged between 21 and 22 — were remanded in police custody till March 21. The youths had invited the girl to an apartment on February 8 and allegedly raped her after spiking her drink.A rickshaw-puller was arrested on Monday for allegedly raping an eight-year-old girl at Patuabagan on Sunday evening. Police said Sheikh Ali Akbar, a pavement dweller living on Narkeldanga Road, lured the child with a chocolate. The girl was sent for medical examination and Akbar was remanded in judicial custody.A woman suffered burns on Monday after a kerosene stove at her Sinthee home exploded. Police said Harabala Das was taken to RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
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TO Calcutta Park Street Ladies Circle 46 for donating audio cassettes, tape recorders & medicines to visually challenged kids
