Kolkata-based public sector lender Allahabad Bank has plans to raise Rs 1,000 crore through bonds by this month end.

Out of total proposed amount, the bank intends to raise Rs 900 crore through tier-II bonds and Rs 100 crore through tier-I bonds.

According to sources, capital worth Rs 900 crore would be raise through Rs 500 crore by way of upper tier-II bonds and Rs 400 crore through subordinated bonds in the lower tier-II category.

Kolkota, Mar 10 : The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), on Wednesday, said that it was not contesting from West Bengal''s Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat and was holding talks with the Bharatiya Janata Party to support its party candidates there.

GJM General Secretary Roshan Giri said, "We have decided not to field candidate for the Lok Sabha seat in Darjeeling, but will support a party which will take up the cause of Gorkhaland which is a 100-year-old demand and related to our identity," Giri said.

Kolkata, Mar 10 : Students and teachers of Rabindra Bharati University celebrated Holi with great fervour and enthusiasm.

Dancing to the tune of Tagore''s song, they applied colour on each other in the true spirit of festival of colours.

At Rabindra Bharati University, they follow the concept of Holi introduced by Rabindranath Tagore.

Kolkata, Mar 9: Over 500 children from slums here were treated to a special screening of the Oscar winning movie ''Slumdog Millionaire''.

Coming out of the theatre, the kids said the story of Jamal, an orphaned and poor kid, who eventually becomes a millionaire overnight after winning a television quiz show, inspired them that they too should not take slum life for granted.

"We really like the film because the boy who performs the role of a slum kid is just like us and stays in slum in real life too. We have learnt that we can also progress in life despite coming from a humble background," said Pooja Singh.

Kolkata/New Delhi, Mar 7 : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has blamed the Central Government for what they termed as a failure to check flow of illegal migrants from Bangladesh.

Addressing a election rally in Kolkata, BJP prime ministerial candidate L. K. Advani said, "Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants enter West Bengal from Bangladesh and even the Supreme Court has said that what is happening in the eastern part is nothing less than external aggression and because this government abolished laws that deftly handle it, all this is getting encouraged."

Kolkata has just found a new Bahu . When earlier this week he landed in Kolkata for the shooting of Mani Ratnam’s film (tentatively titled Raavan) Abhishek Bachchan got the welcome of a prodigal son . Abhishek’s father is regarded as Bengal’s Jamai Babu , as Jaya Bachchan happens to be Bengali.

A few years ago when father and son Bachchan were shooting simultaneously in Kolkata the senior AB had said, “Earlier they cheered for me. Now they cheer for my son.”