Kolkata, Jan 3 : Two buses were reportedly set ablaze today by protesting Trinamool Congress-backed auto-rickshaw operators who were agitating against a court ban on ageing public transport vehicles in the city.

The strike turned violent with irate auto drivers vandalising a government bus at Park Circus.

The agitators turned violent, and stoned and set fire to a West Bengal Transport Corporation bus. The bus was only partially damaged as locals managed to douse the flames. No one was injured.

Kolkata, Jan 3 : Muslims here staged a massive demonstration to protest against Israel''s offensive in Gaza that has claimed the lives of hundreds of innocent Palestine civilians.

The demonstrators, who gathered outside Tippu Sultan''s mosque, also set the Israeli flag on fire.

Noorur Rehman Barkati, the Shahi Imam of the mosque said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi would be urged to snap bilateral ties with Israel immediately.

"We have declared Israel a terrorist nation. We will burn their diplomatic offices all over India. If the war doesn''t stop now, then their diplomatic consulates will be burnt in India and in other countries also," warned Barkati.

Howrah, Jan 2 : Agitated over the transfer of two fellow members, prisoners at a correctional home in West Bengal''s Howrah District vandalised and set fire to the place.

In all, 55 inmates of the Howrah Correctional Home damaged furniture, tore official papers and set fire to the premises.

The incident led to the transfer of two inmates named -- Sajjan Mallik and Rahul Mallik to the Alipore Central Jail in Kolkata.

The prisoners also reacted in this manner to protest against the inferior quality of food being served to them.

Police forces, including the Rapid Action Force (RAF) was rushed to the spot to control the situation.

CBI sources said that the CBI officer, who investigated the Tapasi Malik murder case in Singur, was arrested, on Sunday for taking bribe from an accused in a murder case.

Partho Sarathi Bose, DSP, Special Crime Branch of CBI, was arrested in front of an electronics shop in Ultadanga, in north Kolkata, by a six-member CBI Anti Corruption branch team which had come from Delhi.

The sources said that Bose was arrested while taking a bribe of Rs 50,000 from Avtar Singh,  an accused in the murder of a Directorate of Revenue Intelligence officer Tarun Dutta.

A complaint was lodged this year by Singh, in December , that Bose was demanding money from him. A trap was there after laid.

Kolkata, Dec 25 : Railway Police arrested 32 Myanmar nationals from Sealdah Railway station in Kolkata.

Kolkata, Dec. 21 : Medical fraternity is concerned over the prevailing double-digit mortality rate among infants despite a decreased rate recorded over the last few years in the country.

The infant mortality rate has decreased from 68 to 57 per 1,000 births in the country. But, reports say that only 41 per cent of women deliver in hospitals and clinics, the rest still deliver at home. Consequently, one-third women and their babies are deprived of post-natal care within two days of delivery that leads to neo-natal deaths.

In India, two-and-a-half million babies die on an average before they turn five years of age. Of these, 1.25 million die in the neo-natal stage; within the first 28 days of birth.