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Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates Bengal hospital, but CM Mamata Banerjee takes a jibe at him

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually inaugurated the second campus of Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI) in West Bengal’s Kolkata. However, a controversy erupted when West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee informed the Prime Minister that she had already inaugurated the hospital way before.

“The Prime Minister is virtually inaugurating this project. But let me inform the PM that we inaugurated it way before,” the Bengal CM said. She pointed out that this was done at a time when during a COVID wave the state needed isolation centre and added that “this institute is associated with the state government as well.” The state is funding 25% of the project and has also given the land for the campus of the cancer hospital, she also eportedly said.

The CM however thanked PM Modi for inaugurating the hospital.

Rebuking Banerjee, BJP leader Suvendu Adhikhari, who’s the Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, wrote on Twitter, while sharing a clip of Banerjee’s speech, “Not only you disparaged intentionally, trying to conceal the fact that, the Central Govt has provided 75% of the funds; i.e. 400 crores, but also belittled the Federal Polity of India and stained the sanctity of a solemn occasion. How unfortunate.”

 

Adhikari went on to add, “Guilefully articulating the emergency usage of an under construction facility as Safe Home during the second wave of Covid, to discredit the formal inauguration of the most advanced fully equipped Cancer facility of Eastern India is a deliberate attempt to mislead the people of West Bengal.”

The second campus of CNCI has been built at a cost of over Rs 530 crore, out of which around Rs 400 crores have been provided by the Union government and the rest by the West Bengal government, in the ratio of 75:25. The campus is a 460 bedded comprehensive cancer centre unit with cutting-edge infrastructure for cancer diagnosis, staging, treatment, and care.

“The second campus of CNCI has been built in line with the Prime Minister’s vision to expand and upgrade the health facilities in all parts of the country. CNCI was facing a heavy load of cancer patients and a need for expansion was being felt for some time. This need will be fulfilled through the second campus,” a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office said.

The campus is equipped with modern facilities like Nuclear Medicine (PET), 3.0 Tesla MRI, 128 slice CT scanner, Radionuclide therapy unit, endoscopy suite, modern brachytherapy units, etc. The campus will also work as an advanced cancer research facility and will provide comprehensive care to cancer patients especially those from Eastern and North-Eastern parts of the country.

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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