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QKolkata: “TMC Eyeing Red Fort”, Says Derek ; Teen Teachers At IIT

Your daily lowdown of all things Kolkata.

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1. ‘If BJP Eyeing East, TMC Set On Red Fort’

In a clear indication it will keep up heat on BJP in the Parliament session starting Monday, Trinamool said if BJP was eyeing the east, they (Trinamool) were eyeing Lal Qila.

Trinamool leader Derek O’Brien said: “Let the BJP propaganda not cloud analysis. The ruling party is eyeing the east, we are eyeing Lal Qila. On 15 August 2019, Narendra Modi will not address this nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort.”

“Let us put things in perspective,” he added. “Tripura has 25 lakh voters. The smallest of Bengal’s 23 districts is Howrah, which has 30 lakh voters. Tripura represents two seats in the Lok Sabha; there are 543 more in play. Before that, the second stage of the Budget session of Parliament begins on Monday. The BJP still has to answer serious questions.”

(Source: The Times Of India)

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2. In Use Or Not, Headphones No Music To Police Ears

Sanmit Chatterjee, a techie riding to his office at Bantala, was hauled up by a police officer last Monday for riding with his earphones plugged in. He was allowed to go when he showed he was not speaking on the mobile. The next day, he was again stopped at the same place for the same reason by another officer. He again showed he wasn’t over the phone, but this time, he was fined.

The police crackdown on speaking on cellphone while driving has led to several confusion and queries among motorists. Can speaking on a Bluetooth device or listening to music on earphones while driving amount to an offence as well? Relegated to a grey area in the three-decade-old rule, the offence of speaking on phone while driving has led to endless confusion, but no proper answer seems to be in sight as the order did not specify anything on the use of earphones or a Bluetooth device while driving.

(Source: The Times Of India)

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3. Six Injured After Gas Leak Leads To Blast

Six members of a family, including three teenagers, were severely injured after a gas leak led to an explosion at their home on Bamacharan Roy Road in Behala on Sunday morning.

Police said Kanika Mondal, 36, was cooking around 9.30 am when the explosion took place. The impact was such that portions of the asbestos roof were blown away and the house was set on flames. Kanika suffered maximum injuries, while three others in the house — her husband Sanjib and their children Suman, 14, and Sanjana, 12, suffered critical burns.

As Kanika’s sister-in-law Jharna, 36, and her daughter Sunita, 17, who live next door, pulled them out of the house, they, too, were injured. Two fire tenders and residents of the area helped douse the flames and rescue all the six affected people. Kanika and Sanjib were admitted to Vidyasagar Hospital with over 60 percent burns and the others were taken to MR Bangur Hospital. Sunita was discharged later in the day.

(Source: The Times Of India)

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4. DJ, Two Others Held For Peddling Drugs

The Narcotics Control Bureau arrested on Sunday three men, including a DJ, on the charge of possessing and peddling banned drugs.

Officers said Vivek Sharma, 29, his cousin Rishabh Sharma, 32, and Deep Chakraborty, 25, the DJ, were involved in supplying party drugs to popular nightspots in the city and educational institutions.

At least 11 strips of Magic Mushrooms (Psilocybin mushroom), a hallucinogenic drug, were seized from Vivek's New Alipore house, said Dilip Srivastava, the director of the Calcutta zone of the bureau.

"These mushrooms can be consumed after making tea out of them or can even be had with chocolate sauce to mask their bitter taste. The effects range from hallucinations to euphoria and last more than six hours," he said.

Also seized were 20 LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) blotting papers, nine Ecstasy pills, 13.5g of Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) in crystalline form, and several tablets of Strawberry Quick, a flavoured drug that contains MDMA.

(Source: The Times Of India)

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5. Jumbo Task In Tiger Hunt

A herd of more than 20 elephants went on the rampage in the forests near Lalgarh, destroying two of the hidden cameras that had photographed a tiger in the area on Friday.

Six cameras remain, but none is safe with the elephants around. The elephants that entered Jhargram around 48 hours ago could scare the tiger and drive it away to another forest, wildlife officials said.

The forest department laid two traps with live bait for the tiger on Sunday, but now capturing the animal seems a daunting task.

"Capturing a tiger is in itself a tough job. But we had zeroed in on a broad location. The elephants have made things even more challenging. We might have to expand the area of operation," said Ravikant Sinha, the chief wildlife warden of Bengal.

Two of the elephants, one of them a tusker, were separated from the herd and ran amok in nearby villages and Lalgarh town.

(Source: The Telegraph)

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6. At IIT, Teachers In Their Teens

IIT Kharagpur went back to school last week, handing the classroom to a group of teenagers to demonstrate how a unique study model has blurred the lines between teaching and being taught.

Dishari Ghosh, the daughter of a panchayat employee, and Alapan Maity, the son of a freelance cameraman, were among the students who slipped into the role of teachers in the IIT classroom.

The group, comprising students of classes IX and X, gave a daylong demonstration of how they tutor juniors in their respective schools to supplement the efforts of assistant teachers.

The teachers in school uniform have all emerged from a project called the "Innovative C minus 4 Model for Rural School Students'', conceived by teachers at IIT Madras and IIT Kharagpur.

The "C minus 4" model gets its name from training and mentoring a student in grade or standard C to successfully teach students four years junior. The concept originated from the need to improve non-cognitive skills like public speaking, communication and personality development during the so-called formative years, which is when children are in classes VIII to IX.

(Source: The Times Of India)

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7. An HIV-Positive Dream Hits House Hurdle In City

They are a bunch of 10 ordinary teenagers, who nourish the dream of making it big. But their HIV positive status has turned them into social pariahs, with the city offering them no space to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams.

Out to open their own café called “Cafe Positive”, all they have met with for the last three months is a big negative. No house-owner in some of south Kolkata’s posh localities has been willing to rent out space once told about “who will manage and run the shop”.

While a few landlords have straightaway refused saying “e paray erom cholbena (such business won’t run in this neighbourhood)”, others have been courteous enough with financial help and old clothes, but pleaded helplessness in renting out space to the 18-plus teens.

(Source: The Telegraph)

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