Murshidabad (India)

Type: City
Name: Murshidabad (India)
Country: India
Latitude: 24.18
Longitude: 88.269997
population: 39,561
First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 2 reports

India has benefited from economic openness, says US ambassador

Kolkata may not be the place that comes to mind when one thinks of business or economic indices, but it is one that ?actually determines? where India is ?heading?, said Nancy J. Powell, the US Ambassador to India, here on Tuesday.Speaking at an interactive ... [Published Hindu Business Line - May 21 2013]
First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

'Rs 120-a-year' clean water

(Clockwise from top left) IIT team members Anshup, Kamalesh Chaudhari, Thalappil Pradeep, Amrita Chaudhary, Avula Anil Kumar, Sahaja Aigal, Mohan Udhaya Sankar and Shihabudheen Maliyekkai who developed the purification system The technology, developed ... [Published Calcutta Telegraph - May 08 2013]
First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Rain ditches city, clouds blown away

The sun played peekaboo on Monday as a slow but persistent breeze blew away the cloud cover that promised rain and relief from the prickly heat and humidity over the past couple of days. The city suffered the sultriest day with the minimum relative humidity ... [Published Calcutta Telegraph - May 07 2013]
First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

NHRCW accuses BSF of torturing villagers

Two West Bengal-based rights bodies on Monday moved the National Human Rights Commission against the Border Security Force of India accusing them of torturing and molesting innocent villagers in Murshidabad district.Suraksha Mancha and Programme Against ... [Published New Age Bangladesh - May 06 2013]
First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 1 reports

The kids aren't alright

Heard about the father who killed his daughter in Murshidabad district? She was ten years old and, according to reports, she was resisting her father's decision to sell her off.Heard about the father who killed his daughter in Murshidabad district? She ... [Published DNA India - May 05 2013]
First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Jahanara Imam’s 84th birth anniv today

Today is the 84th anniversary of birth of Shaheed Janani Jahanara Imam, a litterateur and pioneer organiser of the campaign against war criminals of 1971.Jahanara Imam, born in Murshidabad in May 3, 1929 in the then undivided Bengal of India, is mostly ... [Published New Age Bangladesh - May 02 2013]
First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Indo-Bangla mango trade in limbo

Delayed approval on transport subsidy scheme for Mango is spoiling international trade opportunity of exporters from Malda in West Bengal to Bangladesh, the largest buyer of Indian mango, The Economic Times of India says in a report."Smooth export to ... [Published The New Nation - Apr 30 2013]
First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Saradha ponzi scam: 250 suspicious banking transactions red-flagged

Business India News: The Indian Finance Ministry has red-flagged over 250 suspicious banking transactions, most of them related to Multi Level Marketing (MLM) or ponzi schemes, this year and has alerted agencies concerned and state governments on them. ... [Published KeralaNext.com - Apr 29 2013]
First reported Apr 28 2013 - Updated Apr 28 2013 - 1 reports

Ponzi-fire-spreads-to-other-firms

After Saradha, another financial scam has surfaced in Murshidabad. Hundreds of agents of a Murshidabad-based ponzi company, James Dream India Real Estate Ltd (JDIRL), on Saturday ransacked the house of the company’s managing director after the investors ... [Published Hindustan Times - Apr 28 2013]
First reported Apr 21 2013 - Updated Apr 21 2013 - 3 reports

Bengals communal card

Since it seemed highly unlikely that a whole forest would trot across towards his fortress, he lived in the complacent world of invincibility.Every government in Bengal is equally certain of survival till the Muslim vote begins to move against its citadel. ... [Published Khaleej Times - Apr 21 2013]
First reported Apr 07 2013 - Updated Apr 07 2013 - 1 reports

Comrade's dad meets bereaved father

Two fathers brought together by a tragedy spent half an hour in the comfort of each others company on Sunday. Injured SFI leader Joseph Hossains father called on Pranab Gupta, the father of Sudipto Gupta, who died in police custody after taking part in ... [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Apr 07 2013]
First reported Mar 31 2013 - Updated Apr 01 2013 - 1 reports

July date for power to Dhaka

New Delhi, March 31: India plans to export 500 mega watts (MW) of power to Bangladesh from July in a bid to strengthen strategic ties with the neighbouring country. The Bangladesh Power Development Board will receive 500MW from a newly built 125km powerline, ... [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Mar 31 2013]

Quotes

"Since Siliguri, Asansol, Malda and Murshidabad have a growing voice in setting the nation's policy agenda, they need to be brought into the conversation" she observed
Then, it moves on to its ` "Description’ and `History.’ Interestingly, even in its history, one will never come to know that ‘AJK Police’ is under the control of Government of Pakistan and not under the control of Government of India (may be because of shared history) till one reaches at the end."
"Against the old scheme of subsidy for the stocks handled through air or water route only, we have proposed to extend that to surface transport too. But it depends on whether the Ministry approves it or not" he added. Interestingly, the benefit is existing for North Eastern sates but not for adjoining West Bengal
"A feedback on the STRs sent to state governments on multi-level marketing schemes is yet to be received" the source said

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India has benefited from economic openness, say... [Published Hindu Business Line - May 21 2013]
India's growth needs more opening, foreign fund... [Published ProKerala.com - May 21 2013]
'Rs 120-a-year' clean water [Published Calcutta Telegraph - May 08 2013]
Rain ditches city, clouds blown away [Published Calcutta Telegraph - May 07 2013]
NHRCW accuses BSF of torturing villagers [Published New Age Bangladesh - May 06 2013]
`Mission AJK Policeâ: Enforcement of Indian Con... [Published Kashmir Times - May 05 2013]
The kids aren't alright [Published DNA India - May 05 2013]
Jahanara Imam’s 84th birth anniv today [Published New Age Bangladesh - May 02 2013]
Indo-Bangla mango trade in limbo [Published The New Nation - Apr 30 2013]
Saradha ponzi scam: 250 suspicious banking tran... [Published KeralaNext.com - Apr 29 2013]
Slow Poison [Published Hindu Business Line - Apr 28 2013]
Ponzi-fire-spreads-to-other-firms [Published Hindustan Times - Apr 28 2013]
Ruined Indian investor kills self [Published Asia News Network - Apr 22 2013]
Bengals communal card [Published Khaleej Times - Apr 21 2013]
Birnam wood not moving, yet [Published DAWN Group - Apr 21 2013]
Birnam wood is not moving, yet [Published Saudi Gazette - Apr 21 2013]
The great Delhi mango chase [Published Livemint.com - Apr 19 2013]
Big West Bengal deposit-taking firm default on ... [Published Livemint.com - Apr 17 2013]
Comrade's dad meets bereaved father [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Apr 07 2013]
July date for power to Dhaka [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Mar 31 2013]
Hasem railway [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Feb 26 2013]
Indian general strike ends with no demands met [Published World Socialist Web Site - Feb 23 2013]
Look back in wonder [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Feb 05 2013]
Slaying the monster of penury [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Jan 07 2013]
HuJI man on hire drive [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Dec 21 2012]
Clash of cultural affinity [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Nov 30 2012]
City heist arrests [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Nov 24 2012]
Who killed Indian railway?Indian Railway is on ... [Published Silicon India - Oct 31 2012]
Assurance on AIIMS clone [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Oct 30 2012]
Where Puja shopping takes a new meaning [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Oct 20 2012]
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