Around 7,000 policemen will be deployed in the city on the occasion of Kali puja on Tuesday. They will be positioned in front of big pandals, at busy crossings and other strategic points. An officer said around 6,000 cops were deployed last year. ?The serial blasts in Delhi have prompted us to step up the deployment.? Security has also been beefed up at the entry and exit points of all Metro Railway stations and the Kalighat temple. Police have announced a number of helplines ?Lalbazar control room: 2214-3230; distressed women: 1091; senior citizens: 98300-88884; medical assistance: 98300-79999; traffic assistance: 1073, 98300-10000. A division bench of Calcutta High Court on Monday directed the Howrah Municipal Corporation (HMC) to take all possible steps to pump out stagnant water and clean the drains of Bellilious Lane immediately. The bench comprising Justice J. Biswas and Justice S. Sen asked the civic body to start work by 10.30 am on Tuesday. The order was passed on a petition filed by Howrah Ganatantrik Nagarik Samity. A 70-year-old man was arrested on Monday on charges of raping a 65-year-old woman in Malipanchghara, Howrah. Police said the woman works as masons? help. On Monday night, she went to the house of a mason, Ramu Pandit, who had promised her a job. Pandit was alone at home. He allegedly raped the woman. A police officer said medical test had confirmed rape.A 32-year-old domestic help committed suicide at her employer?s house on Bankim Chatterjee Street, under Amherst Street police station, on Monday morning. Police said Shikha Samanta?s body was found hanging from an iron rod. She was taken to Medical College and Hospital, where doctors pronounced her dead. The Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, the deemed university set up by Ramakrishna Mission, is introducing a diploma course on ?meditation and spiritual life?. The four-semester course starts from December, said vice-chancellor Swami Atmapriyananda. The admission form and prospectus will be available from Vivekananda Sabhagriha, Belur Math, between November 1 and 21. State finance minister Asim Dasgupta on Monday asked chief secretary Amit Kiran Deb to inquire into the cooking gas ?crisis?. Though there is no real crisis in the market, consumers are complaining of shortage, an official said. Singapore Airlines on Monday announced a special fare of Rs 34,000 for a round trip to Australia. The fare includes two nights in a three-star hotel in Singapore, with airport transfers and free access to key tourist spots in the city. The offer needs to be availed of before November 15 and the passenger has to travel out of the city by November 30.Sumit Sau, 8, was crushed to death by a bus near tank 12, in Salt Lake, around 9 am on Monday. The vehicle was impounded and the driver arrested.A railway employee returned Rs 17,000 and a watch that a passenger of Rajdhani Express had left behind on a wash basin on the train on October 19. Madan Mohan Bhattacharya, a resident of Rahara, in North 24-Parganas, was on his way to Delhi by the Howrah Rajdhani Express. His money and watch were found by Debatosh Chatterjee, who was on the escort staff.
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To Shradha Eye Care Centre for organising a free eye operation camp and distributing free spectacles among the underprivileged
