Following are top stories from the Eastern Region at 1700 hours.

Following are top stories from the Eastern Region at 1700 hours.

CAL2 WB-GJM SITUATION

Darjeeling : The GJM gives ten-day deadline to the Centre to intervene in the Gorkhaland statehood stir as the indefinite shutdown in the hills entered its 47th day today.

CES1 WB-FLOOD-SURVIVOR

Burdwan : 62-year-old woman kept herself afloat for 13 hours in the turbulent Damodar river in flood-hit Burdwan district till she was rescued 80 km away.

CES2 OD-LIGHTNING-EXGRATIA

Bhubaneswar : Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announces an ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakh each for the families of 18 persons who died after lightning struck them yesterday.
 

CES3 OD-WITCHCRAFT-ARREST

Berhampur : 34 people, including five women, were arrested from a village in Odisha's Ganjam district for allegedly attacking a family a month ago, accusing them of practising 'witchcraft'.

CCM4 BIZ-BIRLACORP

Kolkata : Birla Corporation Limited, the M P Birla group flagship company, will invest around Rs 2400 crore for its proposed new cement plant at Mukutban near Nagpur.

ERG2 MZ-SWINEFLU

Aizawl : Mizoram government keeping close watch on the prevalence of swine flu (H1N1) and Japanese encephalitis (JE) in neighbouring Manipur.