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Public outrage over the gut-churning incidents of gang-rape in Hyderabad and Ranchi have reached the steel city with students and artistes taking out marches and demanding stricter laws against the pe...

The national telecom regulator has put on hold the new cable television tariff model that was to take effect at midnight on Friday amid confusion and conspiracy theories surrounding the process of mig...

An apolitical organisation of Gorkhas organised a procession here on Sunday to demand Scheduled Tribe status for 11 hill communities, Bharat Ratna for Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and implementation of reser...

A lorry loaded with coal crashed into a height barrier on the approach to the Tallah bridge from Chiria More early on Sunday.Height barriers have been installed on both sides of the north Calcutta bri...

The Trinamul Congress has decided to continue with its campaign against the NRC and play the development card to stem the erosion of the party’s support base, bolstered by its victory in three Assem...

The husband of Alokparna Mitra, the 50-year-old mental health professional who died of burns on Friday, was arrested on Sunday.Officers of Survey Park police station rounded up Shoumick Mitra from the...

Sikkim Krantikari Morcha president P.S. Tamang (Golay) was sworn in anew as the chief minister in New Delhi on Saturday night, but the surprise exercise raised questions on the need for him to take oa...

The teacher had just explained to Class IV that Christmas was the birthday of Jesus Christ when a boy’s question left him stunned.“What’s a birthday?” little Sajal Mardunnya asked.This was how...

A decade ago, Saranda, Asia’s largest sal forest in Manoharpur Assembly seat, around 175km southeast of Jamshedpur, trembled under the boots of Maoists. Now, guns are largely silent in Manoharpur As...

Congress candidate K.N. Tripathi, who shot into limelight on the first day of polling Saturday by whipping out a gun at a booth for “self-defence”, sat on an overnight dharna outside the collector...