Kolkata: After the emphatic victory in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation elections, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee is looking forward to giving citizens a new mayor and forming a mayor-in-council to frame a comprehensive policy for the city’s development. ...

Lucknow: The soaring heat wave in the north has taken a toll on human, bird and animal life. Over 150 peacocks have died due to water shortage and soaring heat in Uttar Pradesh. The state forest department has stepped in to fill up water bodies dried up by the scorching summer heat. ...

New Delhi: With a liquor baron and a builder throwing their hats in the ring at the last minute, the contest for Congress tickets for Rajya Sabha has become very close, making it difficult for the leadership to finalise the candidates for four seats in Andhra Pradesh and two in ...

New Delhi: In a major embarrassment for the Army, a Lieutenant General has been forced to resign following allegations of sexual misconduct against him by the wife of an officer during a visit abroad last month. Army sources alleged that Lt Gen A K Nanda, the Engineer-in...

It’s a double whammy that will give nightmares to Ratan Kumar Thakur, an 18-year-old student from Bihar, his entire life. He survived after being thrown off the train by goons, remained senseless covered in grime near the sea at Vashi, and when he approached the railway ...

Taking a cab or an auto for short distances in the city could soon become costly. With CNG prices expected to go up by 25-30 per cent as a fallout of the Union government doubling prices of natural gas produced by ONGC and Oil India last week, the taxi and auto unions have begun lobbying...

Like lawyer Shahid Azmi, who was gunned down in February, Chhota Rajan aide Farid Tanashah too may have fallen to the aspirations of gangster Bharat Nepali. On Wednesday, two unidentified assailants barged into Tanashah’s Tilak Nagar house and shot him dead. Crime ...

Tilak Nagar, Chembur, which housed some of the dreaded gangsters of the Chhota Rajan gang, seems to be crumbling. Until the early 90s, rival gangsters and local policemen would think twice before stepping into Tilak Nagar. But the recent death of Farid Tanashah in the area ...

Chhota Rajan aide Farid Tanashah, who was gunned down on Wednesday night by unidentified sharpshooters, appeared to have known the men who shot him. “Around 9.45 pm, two men with pistols barged in. Farid was surprised to see them point guns at him....

Ten days after they lost their kin in the Mangalore crash, twelve families, including that of flight attendant Sujata Survase, were told on Wednesday that they will not be able to perform last rites on the dead as the bodies had been handed over to other families. Hundred and...

Dr Sunita Dube shares tips on how to take care of yours and your child’s nutritional needs when you are pregnant...

Getting furious brings us closer to solving problems, according to the investigation lead by scientists from the University of Valencia (UV). “Inducing emotions generates profound changes in the autonomous nervous system, which controls the cardiovascular response, and also in the endocrine...

Things were going great… you finally found the perfect one and now cant wait to get to know him/her better. If your track record has been sketchy with things fizzling out for no perceivable reason, learn from other peoples mistakes and take note of how not to botch things up with the ...

A cute little puzzle game that makes you go awww – more so for the number of times you will miss a simple solution!...

California: Apple CEO Steve Jobs shared a secret with his audience at a technology conference: The idea for the iPad came before the iPhone. The idea to ditch the keyboard for what Jobs calls a multi-touch display came about in the early 2000s, although the company was working on a ...

Taipei: Google expects to release its Chrome operating system in the fourth quarter of 2010, a top executive said on Wednesday, as it aims a competitive strike at rival the Windows OS. The Chrome system will designed initially to work on laptop PCs, Sundar Pichai, Google’s head of the ...

In a medical emergency, a puncture of the cranium is commonly treated with an implant. While replacements made of titanium just plug holes, a new kind of implant can stimulate the body to regenerate itself: It is custom-fit and disappears to the same extent that the bone regrows....

No matter how many touchscreen phones are sold for ridiculously low price tags, and no matter how many QWERTY phones are released in the market, the simple candybar handset with a standard numerical keypad will always be popular. Or at least Lemon believes the same, as it has launched a new phone in the category, dubbed the Duo 401...

Sonys latest MP3 walkman, called the B-series features a one-touch bass enhancer and a long battery life of up to 18 hours with just 70 minutes of full charging. Users can even Quick Charge for 3 minutes to enjoy 90 minutes of music playback. This MP3 player can also record voice and FM radio. The prices for the device start at Rs 2,890 For more information on the Sony B-series MP3 player visit w...

Do you come across a lot of cool links while idly browsing, but dont have a good way of sharing them with your friends or storing them for posterity? Well, one solution is to simply make a link-blog out of it with Howl!...

Learn how to fix anything by just visiting www.ifixit.com, an online free manual that tells you how to repair and even upgrade a number of products...

What a shock to read about the scam involving the head of the Dignity Foundation, (MM, June 2). If reputed people, under the garb of social work, resort to fraudulent activities, then who can we trust? Similar activities are going on in many such trusts involved with old age homes and orphanages. ...

Pressures at work could make some of you restless and even irritable. Effective communication will aid in sorting out work – related issues and reviewing important career and personal decisions if needed. Don’t get complacent about your love life. Health will need looking after....

From a poster on a grimy wall in a roadside shop to a puja room in a middle-class home, from a hallowed museums rather dingy halls to kitschy re-interpretations in a chic gallery-café, Ravi Varma is probably the only Indian artist whose appeal is universal...

British singer-songwriter Ozzy Osbourne reportedly wants Johnny Depp to play him in a movie on his life. Ozzy has made no secret of the fact that he wants Johnny to play him, dailystar.co.uk quoted a source as saying. Ozzy knows Johnny is loved by women the world over, but they reckon with a ...

The Australian pop star, Kylie Minogue, whose previous boyfriends include Olivier Martinez, Michael Hutchence and James Gooding, had a furious row with long-term partner Andres Velencoso Segura last week after she accused him of not being supportive during the release of her latest studio album Aphrodite. ...

After roping in veteran actors Dharmendra, Rishi Kapoor and Vinod Khanna for Tell Me Oh Khuda, Hema Malini springs another surprise by getting her niece Madhoo to join the merry cast. Roja girl Madhoo is making her comeback with this film after four years. She was last seen in Kachchi ...

Shahid Kapoor and his dad Pankaj Kapur landed in Edinburgh last week to shoot for the versatile actors much awaited directorial debut Mausam. The lead actress Sonam Kapoor has also joined the crew recently. Shahid surely knows that the way to his fathers heart is through his ...

Neeru Bajwa, who made her debut with Prince a couple of months ago, has broken up with boyfriend Amit Sadh after eight years of being together. At one time, Amit and Neeru were the hottest couple in the television industry. Incidentally, the reason for their break-up seems to be director Sajid ...

Deepika Padukone is shooting for her next film Break Ke Baad in Mauritius with Imran Khan. She has taken the chance to indulge in some adventure sports. During her breaks and in her spare time, she has managed to learn scuba diving and is set to also learn sky diving....

Being a celebrity can have its downside and Bipasha Basu discovered this rather rudely recently when an ad shot in 1999, which has her gloriously au naturel surfaced on You Tube. The ad, which shows her as a Rajasthani bride getting ready for her wedding to Vivek Oberoi, was ...

Berlin: Ex-national coach Jurgen Klinsmann insisted yesterday that Germany are among the favourites to win the World Cup, despite the unavailability of captain Michael Ballack. Ballack has been ruled out with an ankle injury and in his absence, Bayern Munich defender Philipp...

Brazil’s Samba Boys brought joy to long-suffering Zimbabwe yesterday, causing euphoria on the streets as they came to play a World Cup warm-up match. Zimbabwe has been tormented by a decade of economic collapse, political crisis and violence and good news has been rare. ...

Paris: Two hours after his reign as French Open champion was brutally cut short by Swedish powerhouse Robin Soderling on Tuesday, Roger Federer still managed to find some humour to brighten the mood. As the Swiss sat down to face the worlds media after his 3-6 6-3 7-5 6-4...

Austrian Jurgen Melzer produced a dramatic fightback from two sets down to send third seed Novak Djokovic spinning out of the French Open on Wednesday. Melzer, playing in the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam for the first time, looked down and out before an incredible revival...

Samantha Stosur of Australia wrecked the Grand Slam hopes of Serena Williams yesterday, outplaying the world number one and top seed 6-2, 6-7 (2/7), 8-6 in a thrilling French Open quarter-final. It was an accomplished performance from the 26-year-old Gold Coast resident who...

Arjuna Mahendran, Head of Asia Investment, HSBC Private Bank in an interview with ET Now analyses the global equities outlook, the path forward for emerging markets and the fear of double dip recession...

Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American accused of trying to set off a car bomb in New Yorks Times Square, is scheduled to appear in a federal court today (June 2) for a preliminary hearing...

Warsaw: Poland has published cockpit conversations of the final minutes before the April plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski, revealing that pilots decided to land in heavy fog despite warnings from air traffic controllers about poor visibility. A transcript of the last 39 minutes...

Pennsylvania: They were born on the same day, in the same hospital - and their mothers even shared a room in the maternity ward. Now 24, Americans Amy Singley and Steven Smith are all set to do another thing together - tie the knot.The recently engaged couple were born...

Baby Cara Paradise Badua Villalobos sure is destinys child. In a matter of a few hours of her life on earth, she has been on a roller-coaster ride- on a luxury cruise liner, a motor boat and then on an ambulance. And if she is still smiling and healthy, Cara has an Indian doctor to thank...

Chandigarh: Ruchika Girhotras family lawyer Pankaj Bhardwaj, facing a cheating and forgery case in Amritsar, on Wednesday alleged that the timing of a Punjab police team descending at his residence to arrest him is a conspiracy against him, to pressurise him not to pursue the...

Hyderabad: A co-pilot died and three others including the pilot were injured when a Chetak helicopter belonging to the Indian Navy crashed on Wednesday. It fell into the Sarada river between Anakapalli and Thummapala in Visakhapatnam, the headquarters of Eastern Naval...

Chandigarh: Demanding money back from a teacher during a trekking trip to Manali proved costly for a class VIII student, who was beaten up, his classmates alleged. Distressed over her son being beaten up, the mother of Rattanpreet, 13, died of shock, the boys family claimed....

Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) made a clean sweep in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation elections on Wednesday. The winds of change continued to blow through Bengal with the Left Front being ousted of municipalities by Trinamool Congress...

If you are a diehard fan of Sachin Tendulkar and follow his every move, then dont miss this one: The Master Blaster has installed rain water harvesting system in his upcoming bungalow Borab Villa on Perry Cross Road in Bandra west. This will help him save around 10 lakh litres...

Fifty-six years ago, Abdul Rehman got married for the first time. Now more than half a century later, the 81-year-old has exchanged wedding vows for the third time, to a 38-year-old woman. On Sunday night, Rehman threw a lavish reception in Malad for friends and loved ones to...

The December 2010 deadline will be missed, but you may be able to zip from Versova to Ghatkopar on the Metro by May next year. Western Railway (WR) have on Wednesday approved the design submitted to them by Mumbai Metro One Pvt Ltd. The design pertains to...

The city may have breathed a collective sigh of relief when it rained on Tuesday night, but for one family in Deonar, the pre-monsoon showers proved to be tragic. Five-year-old Sahil Shaikh rushed out of his Gautum Nagar house to play in the rains. However, in his rush to reach the main...

On May 28, when architecture student Shreya Sen lost her right arm after it was trapped for hours under one of the heavy iron wheels of the ill-fated Howrah-Mumbai Jnaneshwari Express, it appeared to be the end of a lifelong dream. But more than 300 students and faculty members at...