The two other employees, Alakesh Saikia and Mohini Mohan Gogoi were rescued by security forces after an encounter with the abductors on April 24 in the district when they were on their way to Myanmar.
In the bitterly fought West Bengal Assembly elections, BJP’s Chandana Bauri romped home from the Saltora constituency, defeating her TMC rival Santosh Kumar Mondol by a margin of more than 4,000 votes.
The counting of votes for the assembly polls in four states and a union territory is being taken up at a time when the country is grappling with a raging COVID pandemic.
Ajit Singh was a bit of an enigma—a computer engineer taking over the legacy of a revered farmer leader. He prospered, but the legacy withered…till a last flicker.
Subroto Bagchi, co-founder of Mindtree, has the vision to go with his desire to give back to society. Odisha will get a top-tier cancer hospital and a palliative care centre.
The high-ceilinged Patna Collectorate, which featured in Gandhi, was saved by the SC in the nick of time. But Bihar’s craze for the new now targets another heritage structure from 1921.
The story of Dilip Chhabria—the car designer whose souped-up styling had the affections of the Bollywood Khans and other Indian elite—comes unspooled like a truck going downhill.
A Banerjee recovers even as they mistakenly cremate a Mukherjee. A lone Himachali villager escapes a wholesale infection. A Britisher survives Covid and a king cobra bite!
What’s common between Pt Birju Maharaj, Jatin Das, Ustad Wasifuddin Dagar, Bhajan Sopori, Bharati Shivaji….? The government wants to evict them from their allotted bungalows.
A country that fumes when Donald Trump calls it filthy (he meant the air), but where most people feel no compunction about throwing garbage on public roads
Rhea Chakraborty’s arrest for having ‘procured drugs’ -- while the Sushant Singh Rajput case still hangs -- brings forth questions of law, privacy and patriarchy
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