Kolkata, Nov 6 : As former Indian cricket captain Saurav Ganguly plays his last test, fans at his hometown in Kolkata express dismay over his decision to retire.

The 36-year-old, left-handed batsman, Ganguly had announced at the start of the India-Australia series that it would be his last.

He was named in the squad for the first two tests despite being dropped for a premier domestic game, seen as a selection match, following a poor series in Sri Lanka in August.

Kolkata police has arrested one of its sub-inspector Shankar Chakraborti for smuggling out ammunition from police armoury.

 Chakraborti was remanded to police custody for four days by a court on Tuesday.

 He had been selling ammunition to criminals for nearly two decades said a top police official.

 "He built up a racket to collect ammunition issued for practice firing at the camp. Probably, he used to collect the bullets from the trainees, who did not complete their quota of practice firing," he added. Chakraborti was selling a bullet for Rs. 100. The arrested SI who was working in the CID had a rapport with local criminals looking for ammunition.

Few nurses at the NRS Medical College and Hospital protested against the hospital authorities. The nurses claim that staff nurse Kaveri Bhowmik died due to negligence of the hospital authorities.

Death certificate of Staff Nurse Kaveri Bhowmik says that she had suffered a stroke but fellow nurses claim she showed the symptoms of dengue or encephalitis. They also say that she was not given proper treatment, not even given a bed and was also not given proper attention by the head of the nursing staff.

Public sector lender UCO Bank has notified that it would cut prime lending rate by 50 basis points by next week.

The bank has stated in a release that it has decided to cut PLR by half a per cent and ALCO (Assets and Liability Committee) of the bank would meet on November 10 to review the interest rate scenario.

Kolkata, Nov 3 : The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) has claimed that the blast at Salboni was an attempt to kill West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee as part of a design to stall industrial and development activities in the state.

Allahabad Bank, one of the oldest banks in India, has announced a Festival Bonanza for its customers in various buckets of Term Deposits.

The lender stated in a official release that the rate of interest on Term Deposits for Senior Citizens will be 11% per annum for a period of one year up to three years, however for others, it will be 10.50% per annum.