An advanced procedure that lets you bypass open heart surgery has been under trial in the US and Europe but is yet to be approved in India.

A 32-year-old sharecropper hanged himself in Ausgram's Purbachati village on Wednesday morning, the third suicide in the drought-ridden region in less than two weeks.

Mamata Banerjee's knuckle-down response to the criticism of her comments on the Maoist issue seems to have paid off. Home minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday finally endorsed her allegation of armed CPM camps in Jangalmahal — a point her party has been trying to make for a long time.

A man who dared to raise his voice against an illegal construction was beaten up by goons a few days back. Topsia resident Mohammed Shakir Hussain Yahia now fears that these goons will finish him off any day.

: Lakhs of residents in vast stretches of south Kolkata, Behala and Garden Reach experienced an acute water shortage on Wednesday after a heavy-duty pump at the Garden Reach water treatment plant broke down.