Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee met the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh at Raj Bhawan in Kolkata on Saturday evening during his visit to West Bengal.
”We discussed issues like the (ruling) Communist Party of India-Marxist supported police atrocities on the tribal community at Lalgarh and demanded centre’s intervention in these issues,” Banerjee told after coming out of the meeting.
She headed a seven-member delegation to the Raj Bhawan. The meeting lasted for around half-an-hour.
“Besides these issues we also told the prime minister about the state sponsored terrorism in Nandigram. Yesterday (Friday) one of our woman activists was assaulted by CPI-M cadres in Nandigram”, she added.
On Friday, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram, confessed that there were 'lapses' in the security mechanism. However, a promise was made by him that the Central and State agencies would make an earnest effort to eliminate terrorism.
At a press conference, he told the reporters, "I am deeply sorry for what has happened [the terror attacks in Mumbai]. Undoubtedly, there have been some lapses. These are being looked into. I will do my utmost best and strain every nerve to overcome lapses and improve the effectiveness of the security system in the country."
The West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has out rightly rejected the demand for a separate Gorkhaland state by the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM).
”I do not want divisions within West Bengal and will try my best not allow anyone to divide the state,” he said.
Addressing the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) peasants wing, All India Kishan Sabha’s (AIKS) district conference in Darjeeling, the epicentre of the Gorkhaland state issue, Bhattacharjee termed poverty the root of terrorism and called for an united fight against it.
It has been discovered through an Australian study that looked into the sexual history of 185 students at the University of Sydney, that the students who are least likely to have had sexual intercourse are the science "nerd" males.
On the other hand, the female art students ranked as the most sexually active.
"Males in the study were less likely to have had sex as a group, compared to the group of females in the sample," said the study of 16 to 25-year-olds, published in the journal, Sexual Health.
It added, "Science students were also less likely to have had sex compared to their counterparts in other faculties."
After missing the post of Chief Minister, the suspended Congressman Narayan Rane on Saturday said he would topple the government if "provoked".
"If I wish, I can prevent the new government from taking charge or topple it when it is formed. It is not in a majority and I can prove it on the floor of the house, even if the opposition does not seek a trust vote," Rane said.
Rane was suspended from Congress after his outburst against the party chief Sonia Gandhi.
Welcoming his suspension, Rane termed it as a good omen. "In 1997, Vilasrao Deshmukh was suspended from the party for six years and in 1999 he became the chief minister," he said.
The latest entry to the cinema halls, Dil Kabaddi, directed by Anil Senior, did not fetch as well as expected. It is inspired by, or rather copied from Woody Allen’s classic, Husbands and Wives, which had won the hearts of millions by its humorous theme.
On Friday, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram, confessed that there were 'lapses' in the security mechanism. However, a promise was made by him that the Central and State agencies would make an earnest effort to eliminate terrorism.
Cast: Irrfan Khan, Rahul Bose, Soha Ali Khan
