Kolkata: Narkeldanga Police on Friday has arrested two men, one of them a key accused from Bantra in Howrah, for stealing a bag containing Rs 20 lakh from a vehicle on Wednesday. Cops recovered more than Rs 1.1 lakh in cash from the accused.The arrests followed a complaint lodged by a city-based printing press owner,…
Bhiwandi: A Good Samaritan who offered shelter to relatives, three daily-wagers from one family counting down the minutes to the end of the day’s work, and a wife struggling with survivor’s guilt. The building crash plunged many families into insurmountable grief.Shamim Ansari (32) did not even live in the building and had rushed to offer…
New Delhi: In a move to improve access to higher education for students who often struggle to secure affordable accommodation, Delhi University’s Miranda House is set to expand its residential infrastructure with a new 120-bed hostel for students from economically weaker sections (EWS) and persons with disabilities (PwD).Officials said the proposed hostel will come up…
Chennai: The Centre of Excellence for Road Safety (CoERS) at IIT Madras organised its first-ever international hackathon on road safety recently. Students, engineers and researchers from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand took part in the hackathon.The participants developed AI-powered chatbot solutions across three problem statements: Drivelegal, which provides road users with location-specific…
Patna: Long before English theatre became closely associated with metropolitan centres such as Bengaluru, Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, Patna had built a vibrant amateur theatre tradition that staged classics of William Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw and several modern playwrights. Theatre practitioners, however, say the city’s once-thriving English theatre culture began to decline in…
Nearly 16.4% of the electorate in Haryana and 10.8% in Andhra Pradesh were excluded in draft voter rolls published for the two states Friday as part of phase 3 of special intensive revision (SIR).In Haryana, the total strength of electors in the draft roll was 83.6% of 2.1 crore at the start of SIR on…
Lung cancer among the young and non-smokers on the rise Kolkata: Non-smokers and the young, who do not use tobacco in any form, are increasingly being diagnosed with lung cancer, leading to concerns among oncologists about environmental pollution and other undetected triggers that could be causing the disease.There is a growing and concerning shift in…
The role of the reactor was multipurpose—training scientists, doing experiments in what is known as neutron physics, the production of radioisotopes and studies in shielding of nuclear radiation Mumbai: Saturday. Aug 4 1956. 3.45 p.m.Seventy years ago on this very day, as the monsoon was unleashing its full fury, India was rocketing into a new…
New Delhi: Most people never think twice about sleeping on their stomach. For Carveann David (35), a restaurateur from Trinidad and Tobago, it had become an impossible luxury.For nearly nine years, lying face down would worsen the fluid build-up caused by advanced right-sided heart failure and a severely leaking tricuspid valve. Breathlessness, swelling and fluid…
Chennai: A group of more than 300 traders in Sowcarpet locked up a team of Goods and Services Tax (GST) officials who had visited the commercial hub for inspection. On receiving an SOS message from the officials, personnel from Elephant Gate police station rushed to the location and rescued them.Police said the team led by…
