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The trams of Kolkata have fascinated many both within the city and outside. Buddhadeb Dasgupta used a tram in Grihayuddha. Satyajit Ray featured this pollution free mode of transport in his movie Mahanagar. Recently, Sujoy Ghosh shot a scene on a tram with Vidya Balan in his super hit film Kahaani.     In the recent past, Mani Ratnam shot ... Read More »

GENEVA: Fifty-seven more deaths from the Ebola epidemic spreading alarm in west Africa have pushed the overall fatality toll from the outbreak to 729, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The 57 deaths were recorded between Thursday and Sunday last week in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, the UN health agency said in a statement. It added that 122 ... Read More »

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Israel said on Thursday it would not pull troops from Gaza until it finishes destroying a network of cross-border tunnels, despite sharp United Nations criticism over the civilian death toll. Speaking at the start of a special cabinet meeting in Tel Aviv, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would not accept any ceasefire that did not ... Read More »

Two servings of tree nuts appears to lower and stabilise blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes Tree nuts cover most types including walnuts and cashews, but excludes peanuts Evidence collected from 12 clinical trials carried out by experts in Toronto    Eating nuts may help to combat type 2 diabetes, new research suggest.  Two servings of tree ... Read More »

ATHENS, Greece — A court in southern Greece on Wednesday convicted two employees at a strawberry farm for shooting and wounding 28 migrant Bangladeshi workers protesting unpaid wages, but the farm's owner and head foreman were cleared. The shotgun attack occurred last year in Manolada, 260 kilometers (160 miles) southwest of Athens, where mostly Bangladeshi migrants work, and drew international ... Read More »

More 21 workers of Tuba Group, who are on a hunger strike for four days demanding payment of arrears, wages and festival allowance, have fallen sick on Thursday. Nine of the fasting workers have been hospitalised and remaining of around 80 of the workers who have fallen sick were given intravenous fluid at the demonstration venue. The workers of the ... Read More »

MOSCOW: Two more craters of unknown origin have been spotted in Russia’s Siberia region, weeks after a similar-looking hole was found in the isolated northernmost area, a local paper reported. The Siberian Times, an English-language newspaper, published pictures of two new giant holes discovered by reindeer herders, one located in the Yamal and the other in the Taymyr peninsula, both ... Read More »

BYBLOS, Lebanon: Influential British band Massive Attack dedicated their only Middle East gig to the children of Gaza, openly condemning Israel’s “massacre” of the Palestinians. As the band played in Byblos, in Lebanon, just a few hundred kilometers north of Gaza, swaying music-lovers held up Palestinian flags as Massive Attack issued a rare, explicit condemnation of Israel’s offensive. In an ... Read More »

COLOMBO: Israeli holiday makers were evacuated from their Maldivian resort after one of them tore up an anti-Israeli placard equating the Nazi Swastika to the Israeli flag, officials said Wednesday. Some 30 Israeli surfers were moved out to safety from Thulusdhoo island, near the capital island Male, as residents of the overwhelmingly Sunni archipelago protested the pulling down of anti-Israeli ... Read More »

The wife of a member of the governing board at the Bangladesh International School (BIS) in Jeddah was killed in a road accident on Tuesday, the second day of Eid Al-Fitr. Nasima Jahan Silpi was the wife of Amir Firoz, a board member at the school’s English section. Five other members of the same family were injured in the incident, ... Read More »

BAGHDAD: Shiite militia forces executed 15 Sunnis and then hung them by electricity poles in a public square in a town northeast of Baghdad on Wednesday, police said. A police officer at the scene in Baquba, a mixed Sunni and Shiite town 65 km from Baghdad, said he believed the action was designed to keep Sunnis from supporting the Islamic ... Read More »

MALIN, India: Rescuers using earth-moving equipment and their bare hands dug through heavy mud and debris Thursday after a landslide engulfed an entire village in western India, killing at least 30 people and leaving about 100 missing and feared dead. More than 24 hours after the Wednesday morning landslide, authorities said the chances of survival were slim for anyone still ... Read More »

ISTANBUL: Hundreds of Turkish women posted pictures of themselves laughing on Twitter on Wednesday to protest comments by Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc, who had urged women not to laugh in public to “protect moral values.” Melda Onur, a lawmaker from the main opposition party CHP, said on Twitter that Arinc’s comments portrayed laughing as a dishonorable act and left ... Read More »

SAN JOSE: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned an Israeli strike on a Gaza school that killed 16 people as “unjustifiable” Wednesday, calling for those responsible to be held to account. “This morning a UN school sheltering thousands of Palestinian families suffered a reprehensible attack,” Ban said during a visit to Costa Rica. “It is unjustifiable, and demands accountability and ... Read More »

Despite the tragedy, thousands fight to be allowed to swim KARACHI: At least 19 bathers have drowned and four are missing in rough seas off Pakistan’s biggest city Karachi, officials said Thursday, after defying a ban on swimming during the monsoon season. The bathers were among thousands who had taken to the beaches to celebrate the Eid holiday, which began ... Read More »