KOLKATA CURFEW LIFTED INDIA NEWS HEADLINES: - The night curfew, which was clamped in the city of Kolkata following large-scale violence during a shut down, was lifted in five police station areas in Kolkata on Thursday morning. "The Army and the police are jointly patrolling the affected areas of the Kolkata city," he said, adding a review meeting would be held soon to assess the situation after which the government might take a decision on continuation of army deployment in Kolkata. "The Kolkata city is fast returning to normalcy. Schools and colleges in Kolkata are opening. People have also resumed their normal life," Police Commissioner of Kolkata, Gautam Mohan Chakrabarty said. The Army would also review the situation in Kolkata, he said. The Army was called out to stage flagmarch on the streets of central Kolkata where violence erupted during a three-hour shutdown called by a minority group of Kolkata on Wednesday.
The shutdown in Kolkata was called to demand cancellation of the visa of Bangladeshi writer Tasleema Nasreen and to protest the Nandigram violence. The administration later imposed an eight-hour night curfew in violence-hit areas of Kolkata.
