Now, a lush green tea garden in Kolkata
byKolkata, May 1 (IANS) City revellers may no longer need to travel to Darjeeling or the Western Ghats hills to see beautiful tea gardens,…
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Row over Singapore varsity’s denial of tenure to professor
bySingapore, May 1 (IANS) One of Singapore’s largest public universities has rejected an appeal by an Indian-origin associate professor of journalism for tenure, triggering…
Nigerian girl undergoes rare limb-salvage surgery
byNew Delhi, May 1 (IANS) Doctors in a city hospital claim to have performed a rare “limb-salvage” surgery to avoid amputating the left leg…
Bird flu toll in China rises to 24
byShanghai, May 1 (IANS/EFE) An 89-year-old man has died in Shanghai from bird flu, raising the toll from the outbreak of the H7N9 strain…
Fear of fake drugs haunts Kashmiris
bySrinagar: What started as an allegation over the wrongful purchase of antibiotics by a government-appointed committee in Jammu and Kashmir has now started haunting…
Experts favour mental health programme in schools
byNew Delhi, April 30 (IANS) There is a need to introduce mental health programmes and improve the existing ones in schools so that behavioural…
Empowering tribals through education in the hinterland
byNew Delhi, April 30 (IANS) He began his life with an aim to educate and empower tribal girls in the hinterland of Chhattisgarh and…
Bhitarkanika bans tourists as crocodiles set to nest
byBhubaneswar, April 30 (IANS) The Bhitarkanika National Park in Odisha would be closed for tourists for two-and-half months from May 15 as the nesting…
APG Shimla University making a mark
byShimla: The APG Shimla University was recently conferred with the “The Best University in the Hills”- Awarded by The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry…
Warm day for Delhi, Wednesday to be similar
byNew Delhi, April 30 (IANS) It was a warm Tuesday for the capital with the maximum temperature recorded at 39.2 degrees Celsius, one notch…