Kolkata: Two heavyweight candidates one a central and the other a state minister from the Tollygunge constituency presented a picture in contrast on the polling day on Saturday. While BJP’s Babul Supriyo chose to hit the turf challenging “fake women voters” and even “punishing’ one of them by asking her to apologize in front of a dozen cameras Trinamool’s Aroop Biswas mostly stayed put with his close aides, rarely answering to calls and appearing in public, choosing to marshal his troops from his residence at New Alipore and his office.
Babul, who set out early in the morning from The Tollygunge Club in his SUV, chose to stay close to Golf Green and Bijoygarh before moving towards Garia. It was a call from a polling agent at the Niva Ananda Vidyalaya close to Battala Bazar in Bansdroni that made him rush there around 10.15am. “I was told that an elderly woman was trying to cast a fake vote. When my agent objected, Trinamool polling agents and supporters brough
Jhinuk Mazumdar | | Published 13.12.20, 03:23 AM
A Hindu youth with a rare blood group travelled 450km from Ahmedabad to donate blood for a little Muslim girl. When asked whether he would like to meet her, the man replied: “She could be Hindu or Muslim or Sikh or Isai, I am just a human being.”
Dhiren Pithiya, the youth, came to Calcutta to give away the courage awards at the inaugural edition in 1996.
2020: A 17-year-old, the son of a farmer in a West Midnapore village, has since childhood been loading his father’s broken cycle trolley with potatoes and travelling six miles, selling them and returning home before going to school. Santanu Dutta, who lives in a thatched house, scored 91.4 per cent in Madhyamik and received a scholarship on Saturday.
A list of the awardees at the IIHM presents The Telegraph School Awards for Excellence 2020, 25th Edition, in association with The Bhawanipur Education Society College
The Caring Minds Award for a ‘School that Cares’
Special mention (for handling the pandemic)
Calcutta Rescue: Distributed smartphones among slum children
Adamas World School: Provided a part of its Barasat campus to set up a quarantine centre
Joint winners
Antyodoy Ashram: Home to 78 children, orphans or children of single parents incapable of bringing them up Batighar Pathshala: School for 56 children, mostly from slums and footpaths
Don Bosco School, Liluah: Host of welfare activities like teaching girls over 14 years for free and conducting night schools