Mamata defends fire department inaction on AMRI
December 14th, 2011 - 11:59 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 14 (IANS) Defending the fire department's inaction after the AMRI hospital failed to honour an affidavit for removing combustible material from its basement, West Bengal Chief Minister ... Read more...
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AMRI’s Dhakuria unit suspends medical treatment
December 14th, 2011 - 1:24 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 13 (IANS) Four days after the fire that left 93 dead, AMRI Hospital Tuesday night decided to suspend medical treatment at its entire Dhakuria unit in south ... Read more...
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Government teams inspect fire-hit Bengal hospital
December 12th, 2011 - 10:13 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 12 (IANS) Three days after a blaze in the city's AMRI hospital killed 93 people, a West Bengal government team Monday inspected the institution's basement to check ... Read more...
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Mamata laments lack of fire fighting infrastructure
December 12th, 2011 - 8:45 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 12 (IANS) In the wake of the city's AMRI Hospital fire tragedy, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday lamented the lack of fire fighting infrastructure and ... Read more...
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Kerala accords state funeral to two AMRI nurses
December 12th, 2011 - 6:18 pm ICT by IANS
Kottayam, Dec 12 (IANS) Two nurses, who died while saving the lives of patients during a devastating fire at a Kolkata hospital last week, were accorded state funerals in ... Read more...
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AMRI fire: Mamata to help Tripura man looking for brother
December 12th, 2011 - 5:44 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 12 (IANS) A Tripura man desperately searching for his brother, missing since the AMRI Hospital fire three days ago, has been promised all help by West Bengal ... Read more...
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Rajya Sabha mourns Kolkata hospital victims
December 12th, 2011 - 3:21 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 12 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha Monday mourned the 93 people who died in a fire at Kolkata's AMRI Hospital three days ago."The loss of so many precious, ... Read more...
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Bodies of two Kerala nurses sent home
December 12th, 2011 - 12:09 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 11 (IANS) The bodies of two nurses of the city's Advanced Medicare & Research Institute (AMRI) hospital who died while saving the lives of the patients during a ... Read more...
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Hospital fire: Kolkatans take out candlelight processions
December 11th, 2011 - 9:44 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 11 (IANS) People from all walks of life, including film personalities, Sunday took out a candlelight march to pay tribute to victims of the city's Advanced Medicare ... Read more...
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Unrest at AMRI as locals stop van carrying ‘bodies’
December 11th, 2011 - 1:16 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 10 (IANS) Fresh trouble broke out at the AMRI Hospital here Saturday as locals scuffled with police after a loaded van tried to move out. The locals claimed ... Read more...
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AMRI tragedy: Tripura man still searching for brother
December 10th, 2011 - 11:37 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 10 (IANS) The horror of the AMRI Hospital fire here, which claimed 91 lives, continues to haunt a man from Tripura who has been searching in vain for ... Read more...
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Mamata announces judicial probe in hospital fire tragedy
December 10th, 2011 - 11:31 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 10 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday announced a judicial inquiry into the city's Advanced Medical Research Institute (AMRI) hospital fire tragedy which claimed 91 ... Read more...
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Twitteratti, Facebookers pour anger over hospital blaze
December 10th, 2011 - 10:47 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 10 (IANS) A day after the fire at West Bengal's AMRI Hospital left 91 dead, netizens have poured their anger through social networking sites Facebook and Twitter, ... Read more...
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Toll now 91, including two nurses, says AMRI
December 10th, 2011 - 10:07 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 10 (IANS) The toll in the AMRI Hospital fire -- the worst fire tragedy in any hospital in India -- Saturday reached 91, the hospital management said."The total ... Read more...
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With flowers, candles Kolkata mourns its hospital victims
December 10th, 2011 - 9:50 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 10 (IANS) Kolkata residents hit the streets Saturday, protesting the "callousness" of the AMRI Hospital through silent marches and tearfully remembering with bouquets and lighted candles the 90 ... Read more...
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Punish the guilty, Kolkata echoes in one voice
December 10th, 2011 - 5:44 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 10 (IANS) It was a collective chorus of anger and shock in Kolkata as intellectuals, celebrities and commoners demanded exemplary punishment for culprits and a mechanism to ... Read more...
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Pranab expresses condolence to AMRI victims
December 10th, 2011 - 12:32 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 9 (IANS) Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Friday visited the SSKM Hospital where the autopsy of those killed in the AMRI Hospital fire was being done and ... Read more...
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Left Front demands high-level probe into hospital fire
December 10th, 2011 - 12:09 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 9 (IANS) Expressing shock and grief over the AMRI Hospital fire which claimed 88 lives, West Bengal's Left Front Friday demanded a high-level probe into the incident and ... Read more...
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Mamata offers Rs.10,000 for fire victims’ last rites
December 9th, 2011 - 10:50 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 9 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday announced grant of Rs.10,000 for the last rites to each of the families of those killed in the ... Read more...
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Six from Tripura killed in Kolkata hospital fire
December 9th, 2011 - 10:12 pm ICT by IANS
Agartala, Dec 9 (IANS) At least six patients, including two women, from Tripura were reported to have been killed in the devastating AMRI Hospital fire in Kolkata that claimed ... Read more...
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He came from Bangladesh for better health, lost life
December 9th, 2011 - 9:39 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 9 (IANS) Gauranga Mandal had come all the way from Bangladesh in the hope of getting back his healthy life. On Friday, this hope was extinguished with ... Read more...
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Omar orders fire safety audit of Kashmir hospitals
December 9th, 2011 - 8:35 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, Dec 9 (IANS) In a quick reaction to the fire in Kolkata's AMRI hospital that left at least 73 dead, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Friday ordered ... Read more...
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PM mourns deaths in Kolkata fire, sanctions relief
December 9th, 2011 - 5:59 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday expressed grief at the deaths of 73 people, mostly patients, in a fire in Kolkata's AMRI Hospital.
The ... Read more...
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Survivors, relatives charge hospital with callousness
December 9th, 2011 - 5:41 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 9 (IANS) Insufficient and faulty fire-fighting systems, ill-trained hospital staff more interested in saving their own lives - survivors of Kolkata's AMRI Hospital fire Friday had horrific tales ... Read more...
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Omani university develops low-fat ‘halwa’
February 21st, 2011 - 10:30 am ICT by IANS
Muscat, Feb 21 (IANS) A research team from a university in Oman has developed what it terms as "healthy halwa", a sweet dish with low fat alternatives.Mohammad Shafiur Rahman, a professor ... Read more...
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‘Sikh trainee’s ‘hair cutting while asleep’ case indicates Malaysian ignorance
January 23rd, 2011 - 2:35 pm ICT by ANI
Kuala Lumpur, Jan 23 (ANI): The case of Malay Sikh losing face among community after miscreants cut off his hair while he was asleep, points to Malaysian ignorance about other religions and ... Read more...
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She still feels like taking meals to ‘Jyoti babu’ (Monday is Jyoti Basu’s first death anniversary)
January 16th, 2011 - 6:28 pm ICT by IANS
By Sabyasachi Roy
Kolkata, Jan 16 (IANS) She used to send meals to "Jyoti babu" and call on him every morning. Even one year after Marxist legend Jyoti Basu's death, Ramala Chakraborty ... Read more...
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Private hospitals in Bengal told not to refuse accident cases
June 10th, 2010 - 3:46 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, June 10 (IANS) The West Bengal government has told private healthcare service providers that it is their primary and moral duty to treat people injured in road accidents and make them ... Read more...
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Nearly 100 killed, 340 injured in Iraq attacks (Third Lead)
May 11th, 2010 - 12:46 am ICT by IANS
Baghdad, May 10 (DPA) Nearly 100 people were killed and around 340 injured in a series of bombings and armed attacks across Iraq Monday that the government described as an attempt to ... Read more...
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NRI’s lawsuit seeks contempt action against Kolkata hospital
March 15th, 2010 - 12:34 pm ICT by IANS
By Rana Ajit
New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) A US-based Indian origin medical practitioner has moved the Supreme Court seeking contempt of court proceedings against a Kolkata hospital for ignoring the court's order ... Read more...
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Marxist Veteran Jyoti Basu Dies At 95
January 17th, 2010 - 4:23 pm ICT by GD
By Ranjan Bhaduri
Jan 17, (THAINDIAN NEWS) 95-year-old Communist, Jyoti Basu died on Sunday after suffering for days from a pneumonia attack. The veteran politician had served the state of West Bengal for ... Read more...
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Jyoti Basu’s condition ‘very, very’ critical (Intro Roundup)
January 16th, 2010 - 1:21 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Jan 15 (IANS) Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu's condition turned "very, very critical" Friday night after he suffered multi-organ failure and was not responding to treatment, doctors attending on him ... Read more...
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Jyoti Basu suffers multi-organ failure (Roundup)
January 16th, 2010 - 12:41 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Jan 15 (IANS) Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu suffered multi-organ failure Friday, doctors attending on him said.
"Basu is suffering from multi-organ failure. His lung is not functioning properly and he ... Read more...
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Jyoti Basu showing signs of multi-organ failure (Second Lead)
January 15th, 2010 - 10:01 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Jan 15 (IANS) Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu's condition deteriorated further Friday and he was showing signs of multi-organ failure, doctors said.
The 95-year-old leader's ventilator requirement had also gone up, ... Read more...
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Jyoti Basu showing signs of multi-organ failure: doctors (Lead)
January 15th, 2010 - 7:29 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Jan 15 (IANS) Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu's condition deteriorated further Friday and doctors attending to him said he was showing signs of multi-organ failure.
"Basu is showing signs of multi-organ ... Read more...
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