Articles by Subhendu Maiti
Bank officers detect fake Rs 2,000 note in Kolkata
The note will now be sent to RBI.

Published on Jan 06, 2017 10:00 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Kolkata tops list of cities with young Indians suffering from lifestyle diseases, finds study
About 45% of those between 20-25 years are vulnerable to diseases, hypertension and depression.

Published on Dec 23, 2016 10:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Mamata Banerjee fumes as PMO seeks civic body’s tax details
Acting under instructions from the prime minister’s office (PMO), income tax officials on Friday met the top brass of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and sought details of the revenue collected by the civic body through property tax post-demonetisation.

Updated on Dec 04, 2016 12:09 AM IST
Hindustan Times | , Kolkata
Arpit Basu and Subhendu MaitiBengal hospitals step up vigil following baby sale racket
At least 50 babies sold off and three buried, says CID. Three nursing homes, two NGOs already found involved, 18 arrested so far. Yet this may not be the end of this racket.

Published on Nov 28, 2016 11:43 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Cash crunch: Howrah wholesale fish market on the verge of closure.
Howrah fish market with a business turnover of more than Rs 10 crore a day, is on the verge of closure.

Published on Nov 17, 2016 10:59 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Transport dept to lease out land at 3 CSTC bus depots
State govt is all set to lease out land lying unused at the Calcutta State Transport Corporation (CSTC) bus depots at Taratala, Thakurpukur and Garia to generate revenue.

Published on Nov 14, 2016 12:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Dine at 450 feet, majestic view of the Hooghly on menu
Will be the highest revolving restaurant in the country.

Published on Oct 26, 2016 10:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Niti Aayog recommends closure of five jute mills in Bengal
As many as 20,000 may lose their jobs in the state.

Published on Oct 24, 2016 09:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
State government may replace health secretary
His failure to control the dengue menace and the tout raj in government hospitals seem to have irked the chief minister.

Published on Oct 04, 2016 06:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Govt to ply special buses to bring in revelers from the districts to Kolkata’s star Pujas
Passengers can book tickets in advance through www.calcuttatramways.com

Published on Oct 03, 2016 11:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Coming soon: A mobile app that will end your countless visits to motor vehicles dept
May be a blow to the tout raj in the motor vehicles offices.

Published on Sep 28, 2016 09:57 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Haldia teaching hospital hires private pathologists for MCI inspection
Authorities pay hefty amount to doctors to show them on the rolls of the institution.

Published on Sep 26, 2016 11:00 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Patients suffer as drug for rare genetic disorder goes out of market
Wilson’s disease can be fatal is the drugs are not administered regularly, say doctors.

Published on Sep 24, 2016 02:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
This Pujas, gorge on fish from Vietnam, Myanmar, Dubai
Lacha from Uruguay, chakori from Vietnam, Dubai and Oman, hilsa from Myanmar, basa from Indonesia — this festive season fish from foreign waters will tickle the palate of Bengalis

Published on Sep 21, 2016 10:20 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
State govt mulls phasing out trams from Kolkata streets
Over the past few months, high-level meetings have been held to work out how to bring the curtains down on the 143-year-old mode of city transport.

Published on Sep 18, 2016 02:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Bamboo pierced through chest, docs save man in 3-hour surgery
He was driving a bus that crashed into a truck carrying bamboos.

Published on Sep 16, 2016 10:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Singur effect: WBIDC to face auditor test
Since land is being given back to farmers, the industry promotion body can’t show it as an asset any longer.

Published on Sep 15, 2016 03:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Kolkata hospital ready with introductory offer of a new heart for Rs 6 lakh
Waiting for government approvals for the procedure.

Published on Sep 13, 2016 11:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Singur verdict may be a setback for ongoing industries in Bengal, fear industrialists and bureaucrats
After she became the chief minister, Mamata Banerjee has faced a dilemma on the land question -while her uncompromising anti-acquisition stand has earned her rich political dividends, the same stand has proved to be counterproductive in attracting investments.

Published on Aug 31, 2016 08:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times | , Kolkata
Subhendu Maiti and Sumanta Ray ChaudhuriPost fire, MCI may withhold MBBS course at Murshidabad hospital
MCI might withhold approval to MBBS course at the state-run hospital if it fails to address loopholes in its preparedness for fire hazards.

Published on Aug 29, 2016 11:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Left blundered by tying up with Congress: Mamata
‘When ideology is lost everything is lost,’ says the victorious chief minister.

Updated on May 20, 2016 12:20 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Kamduni’s voices for justice to contest polls against Mamata
The two most visible faces of the Kamduni people’s movement for justice after the brutal gang rape and murder of a college student and fellow villager in 2013 could take the plunge into West Bengal’s electoral politics.

Updated on Feb 01, 2016 06:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Kolkata: Moms protest delay in surgeries, reach CM home
Livid with doctors of SSKM Hospital for delaying planned paediatric surgeries, five mothers took their children out of the hospital and marched straight to chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s Kalighat home on Saturday to demand immediate action.

Updated on Jan 04, 2016 06:07 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Super specialist hospitals: Bengal govt to recruit 4,000 docs, 5,000 nurses
As the countdown for the assembly elections scheduled in April-May in 2016 in Bengal begins, the Mamata Banerjee government is all set to showcase its much-publicised 40 super specialist hospitals that are coming up in the districts, West Midnapore, East Midnapore, Purulia, Bankura, Birbhum, Jalpaiguri, South 24-Parganas and North 24-Parganas, during poll campaigns.

Updated on Nov 13, 2015 06:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Kolkata: Governor will seek report on violence from election panel
Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi will seek a report from the state election commission on the large-scale violence and rigging reported during the civic polls in Salt Lake, Bally, Asansol and other civic bodies on Saturday.

Published on Oct 05, 2015 05:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
3 hospitals to start stem cell therapy without MCI approval
Health dept is already facing a PIL for operating a similar unit at School of Tropical Medicine since 2013. Though the state health department has given clearnace, it is yet to procure permission from MCI, ICMR and drug controller of India.

Updated on Jul 27, 2015 12:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Cops to launch drive against illegal drug rehab centres in city
A large number of de-addiction psychiatric rehabilitation centres, that is, centres that rehabilitate and detoxify drug/ alcohol abusers, are mushrooming in the city and the districts without valid permission from the health department, thereby virtually endangering the lives of patients.

Updated on Jun 06, 2015 11:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Docs ask govt to change sex-determination law
Radiologists and cardiologists in the city have urged the state government to review the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostics Techniques (PCPNDT) Act — the law that deals with sexdetermination of still-to-be-born children — to save many cardiac patients who suffer from acute pulmonary thrombo embolism or pericardial effusion problems.

Updated on Apr 15, 2015 11:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Now, WB govt sets up a panel to junk stockpiles of expired drugs
India is a land of committees and, despite being one of the most widely ridiculed concepts in bureaucracy, various governments are simply in love with committees that they employ for virtually all purposes under the sun — to probe irregularities and mishaps, advise on strategy, construct a building or bridge, dig tanks, pull down structures — and even coursecorrection on earlier decisions.

Updated on Apr 02, 2015 12:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Pvt hospitals to face govt heat for fleecing swine flu patients
Sources in the health department said a minister had recently sent his relative, a swine flu suspect, to a private hospital in South Kolkata on Tuesday. The hospital demanded Rs. 1 lakh for admission.

Updated on Mar 12, 2015 01:21 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata