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On May 20, 2011, 33-year-old Vishal Chand, an assistant manager in finance with Timken India, dropped in at Tata Main Hospital’s emergency unit with chest pain. The doctor checked his blood pressure...

It’s that time of the year when the cheer translates into a mad dash for popular hangouts.To prevent untoward incidents in the capital and steel city where the reveller count touches 3 lakh and 1 la...

A 96-minute feature film, Axone (aroma), based on experiences of northeasterners in major cities outside the region, was screened on the first day of the two-day Glocal International Film Festival whi...

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Singapore: A Singapore commuter train bumps into another standing at a station because of a signalling glitch in November last year. Around 30 people are injured but none grievously. The city state’...

Nihar Ray has run marathons in all seven continents, the one in Antarctica culminating in the additional challenge of a dip in icy waters.At 70, his eyes still light up at the opportunity of running a...

Police suspect a gang had stolen card details of many of the victims through skimmers they had installed in ATMs in Calcutta and used the data to withdraw money from cash vending machines in Delhi.Her...

The mercury dropped to minus one degree Celsius in Darjeeling town on Saturday, leaving areas in the vicinity carpeted with ice and cheering tourists.In Sikkim, the temperature plumbed two degrees Cel...

Jagdeep Dhankhar, the governor and chancellor of state universities, reached Calcutta University on Wednesday afternoon and waited for some time in front of the locked room of the vice-chancellor befo...

Kaziranga National Park authorities arrested seven poachers during an operation at Bokakhat on Friday night.Forest officials recovered a huge quantity of tiger skin, bones, nails and teeth of Royal Be...