Kolkata, Mar. 12 : Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly today said that as far as he was concerned India was a safe country to play in and was hopeful that the second edition of the Indian Premier League(IPL) would take place without any problems.

On the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls coinciding with IPL fixtures, Ganguly said it was for the Home Ministry and the IPL authorities to take a decision regarding dates if required.

Doctors of the ENT department of a government hospital, on Tuesday, successfully removed a molar tooth from the lung of a 65-year-old man.

Dr. R. Hasda, one of the surgeons who operated on the man, said that Mr. Rajendra Prasad Gupta, a resident of Garulia in North 24-Parganas, gulped a loose molar mistakenly three years back, and it got stuck in the in the right bronchus.

The doctor said, “He started having respiratory problems following that. He also suffered from recurrent chest infection.”

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 : The Kamatpur Progressive Party (KPP) has organised a 24-hour shutdown in four districts of West Bengal on Monday to protest against the administration's refusal to permit a KPP rally that was to be held at Maynaguri in Jalpaiguri district today.

Three districts Cooch Behar, Jalpaiguri and North Dinajpur saw partial response while it was total in Darjeeling hills.

The Gorkha Jana Mukti Morcha has given its total support to the shutdown in Darjeeling.

The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) general secretary and the former Lok Sabha Speaker P. A. Sangma said he was in total support of the KPP's demand for constitutional recognition of Kamatpuri district.

Singur (West Bengal), Mar 7 : Potato cultivators in Hooghly district of West Bengal are facing a crisis with the outbreak of a mysterious disease.

Farmers in Singur, which had caught the global limelight over agricultural land acquisition for the Tata's proposed Nano factory, are worrying about their uncertain future.