Kolkata, Mar 22 : External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee hopes of popular mandate in the ensuing elections to the Lok Sabha.

After meeting with Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee here on Saturday, Mukherjee asserted that the people of West Bengal would give their support to the alliance in the parliamentary elections.

Kolkata, March 19 : West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee''s escaped unhurt in an accident on Thursday after the police pushed a person who drove his two-wheeler into Bhattacharjee''s convoy.

Bhattacharjee was heading towards the state secretariat from his 59A Palm Avenue residence in the southern part of Kolkata.

The person is being interrogated at the Park Street police station. His motorbike has also been seized.

The police has ruled out the possibility of an attack on the Chief Minister.

Kolkata, Mar 19 : Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalswami and two Election Commissioners Navin Chawla and S Y Quraishi will review the poll preparedness for the coming Lok Sabha polls here today.

The team, who arrived here last evening, will also interact with senior officials in the state.

On Friday, the Commission will conduct similar exercise in Orissa.

The team will arrive in the capital on Saturday.

Kolkata/Bengaluru, Mar 15 : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday said that it would construct a Ram temple in Ayodhya that has been a flashpoint of tension between both Hindus and Muslims for years.

Denying that the party had put the controversial proposal on the backburner, senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi said that his outfit would make a new law to facilitate construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya if voted to power.

Kolkata, Mar. 12 : Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly today said that as far as he was concerned India was a safe country to play in and was hopeful that the second edition of the Indian Premier League(IPL) would take place without any problems.

On the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls coinciding with IPL fixtures, Ganguly said it was for the Home Ministry and the IPL authorities to take a decision regarding dates if required.

Doctors of the ENT department of a government hospital, on Tuesday, successfully removed a molar tooth from the lung of a 65-year-old man.

Dr. R. Hasda, one of the surgeons who operated on the man, said that Mr. Rajendra Prasad Gupta, a resident of Garulia in North 24-Parganas, gulped a loose molar mistakenly three years back, and it got stuck in the in the right bronchus.

The doctor said, “He started having respiratory problems following that. He also suffered from recurrent chest infection.”