In what could send cheers among mango growers and the legions swearing by the king of fruits, a city-based management school has collaborated with a Jaipur counterpart to invent a device for picking mangoes from trees in a modern and scientific manner.
Salt Lake stadium is set to undergo renovation ahead of under-17 FIFA World Cup 2017; seating capacity is going to be reduced.
Following the death of SFI leader Sudipta Gupta and sub-inspector Tapas Chowdhury — both resulting from campus politics — not many Class 12 passouts are willing to join politics in colleges.
Power minister Manish Gupta distanced himself from the report he sent to the Centre on the police firing on July 21, 1993 that killed 13 Youth Congress workers in the city while deposing before the July 21 commission yesterday.

Six Bihar BJP MLAs are likely to resign in favour of Nitish govt, according to a TV report.The BJP MLAs today accused Nitish Kumar of betraying mandate and walked out of the House boycotting confidence vote moved by him.
BJP to sit in OppositionWhat started off as another protest march against rape quickly turned into a platform for revelation.
Plan stir against the spate of rapes & deteriorating law and order situation in West Bengal
Women employees at the state secretariat, Writers’ Buildings, put up a demonstration against growing cases of rape and atrocities against women in the state.
With her government drawing flak over the perceived slide in law and order and the continuing spiral in incidents of crime against women, chief minister Mamata Banerjee is set to top her campaign pitch with a pledge to arrest the grim trend and ensure better security for women.
Victims also accuse leader of threatening them after they refused to give land.
A 25-year-old tribal girl was allegedly raped by the helper of an air-conditioned luxury bus in which she was travelling, police on Tuesday said.
The resignations of the 11 ministers of the BJP from the Bihar government have raised concerns as to whether policy decisions taken under their charge will endure,
Rai Atul Krishna reports.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar will seek a vote of confidence in a special assembly session convened today after the formal break-up of ties between his party, the JD(U), and BJP.
Anirban Guha Roy reports.
A self-styled Maoist commander believed to have planted an IED in the belly of a dead soldier in January this year was arrested today from a Patna hospital.
The Centre has decided to provide 'Z plus' security to the family of the late Congress leader Mahendra Karma, who was killed by Maoists in an attack in Chhattisgarh last month.