A survey on livability across 37 cities in the country has underlined what every lonely senior citizen whose child is studying or working in another part of the world knows, what every coughing child who covers his face when a smoke-belching vehicle passes by knows, what every patient stuck in an ambulance because a political party has decided to block a thoroughfare knows ' that the city ranks behind Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai.

Shah Rukh Khan has fallen back on a Calcuttan to call the shots not only on the field but also on the sets.

A Behala homemaker who found jewellery worth more than Rs 5 lakh missing from her bank locker last week has since been trying in vain to get the authorities to accept responsibility and police to start a probe.

City youths Ankit Shaw and Manish Agarwal carried fake driving licences as ID proof while using cloned credit cards as part of the racket involving Nigerians, sleuths said. They made the transactions at lightning speed, cops added.

The state government and a city hospital have promised to help a family of four thalassaemia patients who had sought the chief minister's permission to end their lives, unable to bear the cost of treatment.

The well-being of animals at Alipore zoo is at stake with the Centre virtually withdrawing budgetary support to the zoo.

Dowry demand led to a bridegroom and his family members being locked up by the bride's family for hours till police rescued them. Both families finally decided to sort out the tiff at the panchayat.

Does Singur have any hope? Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata responded with a studied smile on Thursday, keeping the media guessing over his move as the date for paying the annual lease rental for the Singur land draws near.

The radio collar fitted on a Sunderbans tigress on February 28 has come off. The devise was located at the Pirkhali forest on Thursday morning by a group of forest guards who were asked to track it down.

A Delhi-based journalist paid a heavy price for standing up to eve-teasers who passed lewd remarks at his family members on Thursday morning.