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Municipal commissioner Manoj Kumar is unconvinced that the corporation deserves a rating that it had awarded itself for its cleanliness service in an internal assessment ahead of Swachh Survekshan sch...

Meghalaya is sitting on an AIDS time bomb, waiting to explode, activists fear.On World AIDS Day on Sunday, the general secretary of the Meghalaya State Network for Positive People (MSNP), Barry Leslie...

 Members of the Manipur People Against Citizenship Amendment Bill (MANPAC) met chief minister N. Biren Singh at 4pm on Sunday.They told him that the citizenship bill can not be applied to the Nor...

Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio released the book Winning the Lost battle —Assam Rifles in Battle of Kohima by the 5 Sector Assam Rifles during the 57th Nagaland Statehood Day celebrations at Ko...

There is something uncanny about report cards that throw up a mixed bag of results.Nagaland, for instance, has scored zero in some categories and is a frontrunner in others in implementation of the 20...

The Jharkhand Assembly election began with a bang on Saturday, with Maoists exploding a bomb in the forests of Gumla district and Congress candidate from Daltonganj in Palamau district, Krishna Nand T...

Five Calcuttans are re-imagining songs of the past to make evergreen tunes of them today so that these live through the future. In between, they take you places.Sant Kabir’s India, rural Bengal of c...

It was a chirpy Christmas morning at Santragachhi Jheel as around 3,000 birds, many of them from across the Himalayas, flew down to the just-cleaned water body, much to the delight of birdwatchers.No...

Bashar and Methila Robin of Bangladesh ticked one off their bucket list on Tuesday: an evening in Calcutta’s party street on Christmas. “The carnival here has become popular even in Bangladesh. Th...

When cable-makers Incab Industries limited finally shut its plant, B.S. Mandal, then an employee with its transport department, wasn’t shocked. He knew that the company was in trouble for the better...