North Kolkata Calling !!

Star Theatre, which began it's journey from 68 Beadon Street, was demolished by the British Government in 1931.This was done while Central Avenue was extended.The present Star Theater, which was built in December 1887 stands on Bidhan Sarani. Bengal's Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday declared that it will be renamed as Binodini Theatre. In 1874 the actress, at the age of 12, played a serious role in Calcutta's National Theatre under the mentorship of Girish Chandra Ghosh, it's founder. It was through him that Binodini Dasi, who was ostracized due to her origins in Kolkata's red light area, became Bengal's pioneering female stage actress.

The world's richest man and CEO of Tesla set's warning bell ringing for America's financial future.He expressed serious concern about U.S. national debt which reached 36.17 trillion dollars. According to him if drastic steps are not taken the value of dollars could plummet to ' nothing.'

From its regular habitate (Simlipal Forest) a tiger wandered around 300km for 21 days.It roamed through 3 States of India evading 200 men who were persueing it to tranquillize it. Zeenat, the name of the tiger, was finally captured on this Sunday at 3.56pm from Bankura's Gosaindihi village. Another 200km to be added since it was brought to Kolkata's Alipore Zoo. "After checking it's health & vital parameters she will be sent back to her former destination," said a Bengal forest department officer.

A debt ridden doctor burned a 32 year old daily wage earner.He did this in desperation to get rid of his financial obligation. It was pre-planned just to create a fake story of his own death. The Baghpat based doctor took a loan of Rs 30 lakh which he was unable to pay. To avoid his tormenter he tried to create a fake death of himself.He desperately looked for a  corpse but failed. Finally he lured Sonu, the daily wage labourer, with the promise of free drink. Dr Mubarik (his name) took him to an isolated place near a canal in Saharanpur. According to his plan an empty car was ready for the crime. When Sonu went inside he locked and burned the car !

There are long standing rumours about the place where the Japanese PM Shigeru Ishiba decided to move his official residence.The historic site of military rebellions is said to be haunted.This is the place where in 1932 the then PM Tsuyoshi Inukai was assassinated.In 1996 memoir,his wife Tsutomu Hata wrote that she felt an eerie presence when she lived there."Military officers are said to be seen standing in the garden in the middle of night."she wrote. The structure was remodeled in the year 2000. Shinzo Abe moved there in the year 2013. The Government denied any knowledge of haunting.In 2021, when Fusion Kishida resided there, he was asked if he had felt or seen anything unnatural - he too denied having seen or felt anything!

Seniors are no longer willing to spend their retiring days as their fathers and forefathers have spent.They are seeking for adventure and does not lack in doing daring deeds. Among many , they are not unwilling to risk their lives for the sake of risky pleasure. Many of them have taken up skydiving in their golden years. They are taking leaps from 12,500 ft. According to John Miller aged 77 years old-after leaving airplane at great height they simply forget their arthritis, pains and aches.

A 500 years old boot was recently discovered in the Alkmaar city. As always believed that farmers used wooden shoes during work, Silke Lange, an archaeologist said ' Actually this boot was from an urban contex'. The boot was found while constructing an underground waste container in Alkmaar, situated around 30 km nortwest of Amsterdam. From 1450 to 1558 these cesspits were used as toilet and waste disposal- said the archaeologist.

In it's routine image pick up, Google Street View, this time, showed an important clue. It was the picture of a man with a white bag. He was loading the bag into the trunk of a car. In Spain the authorities claimed that the picture helped them a lot.It gave them clue to track two people whom they recently arrested in the case of a man who disappeared a year ago. The police finally caught the couple on the suspicion of kidnapping the missing man. In 2022 another picture, captured by Google Street View, helped Italian police to arrest a mafia runaway fugitive after 20 years! .

In an alimony case in family court in Coimbatore, a peculiar circumstance arose.The judge ordered a 37 year old man to pay alimony of Rs80,000/-.The man executed the order by bringing 20 packed sacks. After opening the sacks the judge was shocked to find the Rs80,000/-in one and two rupee coins. He finally ordered the man to pay in currency notes! He further ordered him to pay Rs2 lakh as interim maintenance amount.

This can probably happen in India, where a section of people still believes in fake godman, sadhus etc.Recently an incident happened in Chhindkalo, a village 330km from Raipur. A villager, after waiting for quite sometime,was quite desperate to have  a child.In his desperation he visited an occultist, who convinced him that his wish will be fulfilled. The fake man adviced him to eat a live chicken. The unfortunate man, believing that at last he will be blessed with a child, followed him blindly. He chocked and died on the spot.

Living on the edge of a cliff? Yes we have heard of such circumstances where risky living is a kind of game. People living in houses known as'Suicide homes' are found in Bolivia's highland city of El Alto.These houses are built on the edge of a cliff. The residents of these houses are strong believers of Mother Earth known to them as Pachamama.Though experts are of the opinion that the cliff is eroding yet they (residents) are holding their ground and refusing to leave ! Such is their belief.

Science fictions strangely predicts future. Another S fiction seems to be moving towards reality. Google's chip 'Willow' will be able to compute under 5 minutes what supercomputer will do  in 10 septillion years. This period exceeds the age that we know about the universe.

Shabana Azmi and Javed Akhtar are married and living happily.On this monday they celebrated their 40th marriage anniversary by treating fans with sweet pictures. In her Instragram account she franky confessed that her husband still makes her laugh. Happy couple indeed!

Future Liren and Gukesh , famous international chess players, seems to be breeding in the foothills of Trissur district, Kerala, India, Out of 4,000 of the villages at least 6,000 people play the game very seriously. Though their passion for chess is undeniable yet they are unable to produce a grandmaster yet. This passion was not there before a man named Unnikrishnan, who was an expert in the game. He showed how even a pawn could overpower a queen- just by clever manoeuvring!

Donald Trump, the present President of US, is against citizenship by birth.He has taken up the issue on his first day in office.He is quite firm on undocumanted immigrants which he pledged on his campaign before election. For the above purpose he,through executive action,  would like to proceed further to ammend the Constitution, if possible. In an interview with NBC's Meet the Press , Trump confirmed this when asked about deporting immigrants.

He is a politician-he is a writer -he is a former diplomat etc etc. His name is Sashi Tharoor and he is aged around 68 years old.He has never been known as a lover of animals. Yet he suddenly finds a monkey on his lap. He hurriedly ate few bananas offered to him.Not only that but he also hugged and carresed him before finally resting his head on his chest and dozing off. This happened when he was sitting on a chair in his garden.

She was driving along a highway and was quite at ease , with a leg resting on the accelerator.Suddenly she felt something creeping up her leg that  was all the while on the accelerator.On looking down, to her horror, she saw a snake creeping on her foot. This happened to an Australian lady . The creeping thing was a very poisonous tiger snake. She somehow fended the snake off.The lady was, finally, found by the police on the side of a freeway near Melbourne.She was barefooted and shocked!