The decapitated body of a Delhi University teacher was found on railway tracks and his mother was found hanging from a ceiling fan at their flat in Pitampura, her mouth stuffed with cloth, in a case o...

A college in north Karnataka made students write their mid-term exams with their heads wrapped in cardboard cartons with just an opening in the front, the unusual “experiment” ostensibly aimed at ...

Sir — The National Theatre, London — it has been putting plays online for free through the lockdown — has declared that it may have to let go of 30 per cent of its staff without further support....

Recap: Reminded about his dinner by Lata, Ronny heads off to Pragya Paramita Sen’s house. But he remains in the conversations that follow at Ghosh Mansion, even after Aaduri arrives with Hem. Ronny,...

The prolonged lockdown, which is now making people impatient and weary, still has some silver linings in store.One such is Writers Beyond Distance, an initiative of the English department of the Karim...

Edward Burne-Jones, the pre-Raphaelite artist who designed the stunning stained-glass west window of St Paul’s Cathedral in Calcutta, is the subject of an exhibition that opened last month at Tate B...

The National Health Mission, Assam, and the psychiatry department of Gauhati Medical College and Hospital jointly carried out a walkathon and cyclothon on Thursday morning to end the stigmatisation of...

Few governments in India step up to acknowledge their culpability after a public tragedy. It was not surprising, therefore, that the government of Uttar Pradesh, headed by Yogi Adityanath, refused to ...

At a time the entire world is fighting plastic pollution, a group of students has used their knack for science to innovate ways to beat the menace. Over 150 students of Classes VIII to XII from across...

A man who had allegedly taken money from the family of a cancer patient, with the false promise of delivering some medicines to the patient, was beaten to death with pipes and bamboo sticks early on T...