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The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Centre to place a status report by Monday on the steps taken so far to rescue the miners trapped in a coal mine in Meghalaya since December 13 last year and al...

Sourav’s school Sourav Ganguly’s school in New Town will be operational from April, the former India cricket captain has said. The Sourav Ganguly International School is located “a stone’s thr...

Calcutta is close to Delhi this winter in terms of the level of toxicity in the air and environment experts feel Calcutta should have an emergency action plan like the national capital to fight air po...

Several artistes of Assam hit the streets on Tuesday pledging that they would not “take” part in government programmes till the “contentious and divisive” Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was scra...

Water supply to more than half of Calcutta will remain suspended from 10am on Saturday till 7am on Sunday because of repairs at the Tallah pumping station, a Calcutta Municipal Corporation official sa...

A schoolboy who started playing cricket so that he could stay away from class and would slip in a pair of white shorts in his schoolbag to escape his parents’ notice went on to lead India to its fir...

Many years back, when I was a student at Cornell University pursuing my PhD in Economics I met the venerable Mukul Majumdar in the corridors of our department. For the uninitiated, Mukul-da is like on...

Jharkhand lokayukta Justice Dhruv Narayan Upadhyay has directed the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to investigate allegations of graft against deputy mayor Sanjeev Vijayvargiya.In February last year, ci...

Coal India Limited and Pune-based Kirloskar Brothers Limited on Thursday readied high-power submersible pumps for the mine where 15 workers have been trapped since December 13 last year.Official spoke...

The number of river terrapins was hardly 50 more than a decade ago and conservationists were worried the freshwater turtle would soon join the list of extinct animals. The International Union for Cons...