If conventional communication networks fail when nature unleashes her fury in the form of Aila-like cyclones, extensive floods and earthquakes, governments can execute rescue and relief operations through satellite-based low-cost HAM radios.

Kolkata: It's said that Xaverians learn more about life on the green benches than inside the classrooms.

Sociologist Samit Kar from Presidency College has moved Supreme Court, urging an order to restrain a section of the media that has been going gaga over the T20 IPL cricket matches held in the metros.

Care to access the catalogue at National Library from home? And how about requisitioning books online? Or for that matter, downloading rare, priceless books displayed on the website? From this month-end, you can do it all at the click of a mouse.

While the Indian state has remarkably softened its stand on gays, the church in Mizoram has kicked off a controversy by threatening to act against homosexuality.

A seven-year-old girl was killed and 14 people were injured when an overloaded motorised van overturned at Kalidanga village in Chanchal.

The entire herd came out of the jungle and started attacking potato and pumpkin fields at Morar, Kulupukur and Basudebpur. Fields of at least 100 farmers were completely ransacked and huts damaged, though no major injury was reported from the area.

Finally, some cheer for fliers. The transaction fee they had to pay travel agents, mostly for tickets on foreign carriers, will soon be done away with.

Jairam Ramesh had announced in Kolkata that the "clearance has been sanctioned", but a letter from his ministry in reply to an RTI application states that it has not even received any proposal seeking clearance for the project.

The well-being of animals at Alipore zoo is at stake with the Centre virtually withdrawing budgetary support to the zoo.

Dowry demand led to a bridegroom and his family members being locked up by the bride's family for hours till police rescued them. Both families finally decided to sort out the tiff at the panchayat.

Does Singur have any hope? Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata responded with a studied smile on Thursday, keeping the media guessing over his move as the date for paying the annual lease rental for the Singur land draws near.

The radio collar fitted on a Sunderbans tigress on February 28 has come off. The devise was located at the Pirkhali forest on Thursday morning by a group of forest guards who were asked to track it down.

A Delhi-based journalist paid a heavy price for standing up to eve-teasers who passed lewd remarks at his family members on Thursday morning.

In life, politics had been Jyoti Basu's constant companion, and even after death, it would not leave him.

Sujit Saha (32), an auto driver and resident of Chainabhi near Salt Lake, was killed after a bomb he was making went off.

Having successfully piloted the women's bill in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, Union law minister Veerappa Moili now wants more woman judges.

Trinamool Congress insiders suggest that Mamata Banerjee is biding her time and will break her silence only after getting feedback from Muslim organisations and districts where the party runs panchayats, municipalities and has a sizeable number of MLAs and MPs.

It was a day of high drama over Gorkhaland. Bimal Gurung, angered by media reports on his deadline to 'commit suicide on March 10' if he cannot get Gorkhaland, tried to shoot himself in Kalimpong.

A 56-year-old woman's body was found at her residence in Baguiati's Pratibeshipara area late on Monday. The body was lying on the floor of her bedroom.