KOLKATA, April 11: The Science Express was flagged off by the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, to create awareness and develop a scientific temperament among people, particularly among students. The train, displaying gadgets in 16 of its coaches, arrived at Sealdah Station this morning and will be open to visitors till 14 April.
The city police has issued a notification asking owners of hotels, restaurants, pubs, bars, shopping malls and work places to display the names of the persons to whom the complaints regarding the flouting of smoking ban may be addressed.
Engineers involved in the East-West Metro project would rather miss the 2012 deadline than mess with the drainage pipes, electricity lines and telecom cables criss-crossing Salt Lake.
Sources in the Calcutta Metro Railway Corporation, which is overseeing the project, blamed the unavailability of maps of underground utilities for the delay in starting construction.
A Metro report on the DYFI rally in December
The DYFI, the youth wing of the CPM, will not be allowed to hold another rally on the Maidan, the local army authorities told the high court on Thursday.
The fisheries department stands accused of violating its brief to protect water bodies across the state by constructing an auditorium on the East Calcutta Wetlands.
Benfish, an agency of the department that has been executing the project, has even ignored a stop-work order from the chief secretary.
