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Women fill streets across Bengal in midnight stir against doctor's murder

Thousands of women from all walks of life hit the streets across West Bengal at the stroke of midnight on Wednesday, protesting the horrific rape-murder of a doctor on duty at a Kolkata hospital......

US MUST do more to protect its children: Obama

United States President Barack Obama has said America must do more to protect its children in the wake of Friday's shootings at a school in Newtown, Connecticut, BBC reported. Speaking at an......

PIX: Students return to school after Connecticut shooting

Easton police officer J Sollazzo hugs a parent dropping off their child at school in Newtown, Connecticut. The schools of Newtown, which stood empty in the wake of a shooting rampage that took 26......

US school shooting: 'Shocked and saddened by the tragedy'

At least 18 children were among 27 people killed when a young man opened fire inside a United States school on Thursday, in yet another tragic shooting that ended with the death of the gunman and......

Amid rebellion in TMC, Shah on two-day visit to Bengal

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will arrive in Kolkata on Friday night on a two-day visit to take stock of the Bharatiya Janata Party's affairs in the state as the assembly elections draw......

Infosys to set up software development centre in Kolkata: Mamata

IT services giant Infosys will start construction of a proposed software development centre in the metropolis by July 2021, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday. The project......

Centre-Bengal ties may hold key to investments

Though the mandate is seen largely an outcome of Banerjee’s welfare schemes, she has promised to industrialise at a faster pace, or so read the manifesto. Congratulations to the Tigress of......

IIT Kharagpur to expand Kolkata campus

Kolkata will shortly get a much larger extension campus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-KGP).Sishir K Dube, director of IIT-KGP, said, "The government of West Bengal has......

'Smart city' project fails to address real urban problems

The 'Smart city' programme is in danger of becoming cosmetic – creating showpieces instead of addressing endemic urban problems. The selection of 98 cities (two more are to follow) by the......

Why some Indian cities won't get smart!

The reasons for important cities remaining out of the ambitious project vary from their low level of utilisation of existing urban renewal funds to scoring low on several factors When Urban......

Former India shot putter arrested in US for killing wife, mother

'I killed both of them. I killed your mother and grandmother. Call the police to come get me.' IMAGE: Iqbal Singh, a former Asian Championship bronze medallist for India, was charged on Monday......

US Sikh student ejected from soccer game for wearing turban

A Sikh student in the US state of Pennsylvania was allegedly removed from a high school-level soccer game by the referee for wearing a turban, according to media reports. Officials from the......