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When Kent will dance for Kolkata TOI
UK-based charity Khushi Feet is raising money for street children in Kolkata by trying to break the Guiness World Record for the largest Bollywood choreographed dance.
Sister cities best buddies, but pacts yield little TOI
Chennai has two sister cities, Denver and San Antonio, and two twin cities Frankfurt and Volgograd. More than five years after the last sibling was acquired, the relationship continues to remain only on paper.
Losing records there to be broken: Anderson TOI
Call it a hoodoo, the Indian sign or even a curse, some players have winning records against others that go beyond plain bad luck.
CII health programme for industrial workers TOI
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) through its healthcare programme wants to teach organizations how to take care of industrial workers.
Srinivasan wins, Indian cricket loses TOI
Rhetoric wasn't the need of the hour. Action was. Compromise wasn't the need of the hour, upholding the spirit of the game was.
Anand looking for strong finish at Norway Super Tournament TOI
Viswanathan Anand remains a contender for the title despite being 1.5 points behind the leader as he will take on the lowest-ranked players in the remaining rounds.
Rupee sinks below 60-mark, ends at historic low of 60.72 versus dollar TOI
The slump came even after the Reserve Bank of India made an attempt to defend the currency before the rupee hit the 60 level.
Nasscom sees exciting times ahead for Indian IT TOI
Nasscom's president-designate, R Chandrashekhar, talks to ET Now on his outlook for the IT industry.
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Mountaineer Anindya Mukherjee becomes the first Indian to bike his way from Tropic of Cancer to Capricorn in 69 days. Kolkata boy Mukherjee covered 5000 kms on a bicycle. The journey that started on June 24 came to an end on Sunday morning, when Mukherjee reached base at Walvis Bay.
There was overall disappointment in West Bengal after the railway budget as the state received little. It is still not known whether adequate allocations have been made for the ongoing projects in Bengal.
Phagwara In a shocking incident paramour of a woman thrashed her three year old daughter to death on saturday. The accused had been thrashing the victim for the last sometime since the woman became pregnant from him. Victim Sanjana's mother Shanti had dumped her husband Bheem Bhadaur, a Nepali migrant, around a year back to live with her paramour Rahul, a Bihari migrant in Dashmesh Nagar area. She took along Sanjana also with her.
It is learnt that two kids Mehak (5) and Sanjna (4), who were cousins, were part of the shobha yatra and were riding the trailer on which several other children and elders were also riding. They alighted the trailer near Partap Bagh with the help of a relative Nirmala but in the meantime the trailer took a turn and the kids were crushed under its heavy tyres.
Two little girls were crushed to death by a big tractor trailer during Shobha Yatra on the occasion of Valmiki Jayanti on Monday night at around 8 PM. Following the accident celebrations turned into mourning and angry members of Valmiki community damaged the truck also.
Skipper Gaurav Reddy - tiniest cager in the Ford Nagpur Competitive Basketball League - played a pivotal role in Raisoni Achievers triumph. After a not so good first half, Gaurav scored 15 points after the change of ends to turn the tables on Gupta Tigers. After both the teams scored 43 points at regulation the exciting clash was decided in extra time. Five of Gaurav's 15 points came in the extra period which also included a superb three-pointer as Achievers won 52-49.
Kolkata-based theatre group, Little Thespian, is all set to hold a festival on Tagore that will have young theatre groups staging their productions and Hindi/Urdu speakers across the nation coming together for a seminar. Titled Jash-e-Tagore, the festival will take place in the city between July 28 and 31.
For the first time, the reality music contest for kids, "Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li'l Champs" will feature original compositions prepared by the mentors and rendered by the tiny contestants. This season, the show will be judged by Adnan Sami, Kailash Kher and Jaaved Ali. It will be hosted by actor Jay Soni who will join the last season's hosts, child actor Afsha Musani and Dhairya Sonecha.
A three year old girl was charred to death as a hut in a Gujjar dera caught fire in Darolli Kalan village on Saturday evening.
An eight year old boy was stabbed to death while his year and a half old sister was left seriously injured in their room in a plot on Cool Road.
Prakash Chandra Arya, aka PC Little, former faculty member of the Lucknow Art College and avid collector of rare cameras, dead. Arya was 73.
Little Champs Sports Club, Faridabad, beat Shri Shri Academy by 8 wickets in the 1st Lal's Cup U-14 Cricket Tournament, organized by BTS Cricket Academy-48, on Saturday.
Popular Kolkata theatre group, Little Thespian, is all set to stage its latest production, Ol-Okun, based on a South African folk tale written by Ismail Choonara. The first performance is on October 18.
Shah Rukh Khan's kids are achievers in their own right. Both Aryan and Suhana won gold at the sixth Open National Taekwondo competition recently held in Mumbai.
For the first time ever, a theatre group from Kolkata will be coming out with a theatre magazine. Little Thespian as part of its anniversary celebrations, will be releasing it's theatre magazine in Urdu on September 19.
