Kolkata fire guts 100 shanties, no casualty Deccan Chronicle | Hundreds of poor people were rendered homeless on a chilly winter evening after a devastating fire reduced their shanties into ashes at Kalikapur off EM Bypass in Kolkata on Sunday. Over 100 shanties were gutted in the fire. | A worried chief minister Mamata Banerjee visited the spot at night and ...
Number of Royal Bengal tigers increase in Assam Zeenews Guwahati: The population of Royal Bengal tigers have increased in Assam with the latest census revealing presence of 143 big cats in the state. | State Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain told a press conference today that the tiger census carried out recently revealed that the big cats were in various...
Norway agrees to hand over kids to uncle Deccan Chronicle | The long-drawn saga of two Indian kids taken away from their parents by Norwegian childcare authorities appears headed for closure with India and Norway agreeing to hand over the childrens’ custody to their uncle who lives in Kolkata. | The agree...
3 more babies die in Bengal hospital, toll reaches 31 Indian Express | Three more infants died at the Malda Sadar Hospital here today after being referred in critical condition from other district hospitals, taking the death toll in recent spell to 31. | The state health services director, Dr Biswaranjan Satpathi, tol...
Delhi's high-rises vulnerable to Himalayan quake Zeenews Bangalore: Tall buildings in Delhi will come crashing down if a strong earthquake occurs in the northwest region of the Himalayas, warns a research seismologist who had predicted the Sumatran quake that caused the deadly tsunami in 2004. | Buildings ...
Republic Day: When science goes boink The Times Of India SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweet In one of Bill Watterson's inimitable Calvin & Hobbes comic strips, the perennially six-year-old brat says, "In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks." It would do well to...
Kolkata fire guts 100 shanties, no casualty Deccan Chronicle | Hundreds of poor people were rendered homeless on a chilly winter evening after a devastating fire reduced their shanties into ashes at Kalikapur off EM Bypass in Kolkata on Sunday. Over 100 shanties were gutted in the fire. | A worried chief minis...
Pangs of paribartan Deccan Chronicle | Suo motu declarations are as valid as appraisals by external agents; by that reckoning, the eight-month-old government of chief minister Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal has delivered on each of the campaign promises as listed in the manifesto and th...
Don't blame just VVS says Gambhir The Daily Mail | Gautam Gambhir defended the struggling VVS Laxman on Tuesday | Opening batsman Gautam Gambhir corrected the critics blaming VVS Laxman for India's Test defeats in Australia, saying the entire veteran batting line-up was responsible. | "There was a ...
Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke have turned Australia's fortunes dramatically The Australian | THE statistics tell a tale not just of two cities but of two seasons, and in both instances, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. | There is no worse time in Australian cricket than losing an Ashes series on home soil, and when Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke reflect on last year's campaign against England, it would be the Adelai...
Scientists developing salt-resistant rice Zeenews London: Scientists are developing a salt-resistant rice variety after a huge tsunami last year hit paddy fields in Japan leaving behind a salty sludge. | Farmlands that accumulate salt have lower crop yields, which can threaten food supply, as rice happens to be the staple of billions of people worldwide. | "The beauty of the new method (called Mut...
