Chickens fed antibiotics to grow faster: Study
Claiming that it found several antibiotic residues in chickens tested in Delhi-NCR region, an environment body on Wednesday said ‘large-scale and indiscriminate’ use of antibiotics in poultry industry might be ‘strongly linked’ to growing antibiotic resistance in Indians.

Gorkhaland: GJM writes to Shah ‘reminding’ of promise
The Gorkha Janmukti Morch (GJM) has once again revived the demand for separate statehood. The party has written a letter to BJP president Amit Shah demanding Gorkhaland.

Pro-business and pro-poor
Nantoo Banerjee
Legendary Apeejay’s Jit Paul, who lorded over Kolkata’s food-fun-n-frolic hub Park Street, once told his friend, West Bengal’s iconic Marxist chief minister Jyoti Basu, that the CPM leader should shed the leftist concept of job creation if he really wanted to create large number of jobs for the state’s unemployed youth.

US-Hiroshima bombing: Last surviving crew dies
Theodore Van Kirk, the last surviving crew member of the US B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II, has died.

3G roaming: Govt may contest TDSAT’s telco-friendly order
Government is making efforts to challenge telecom tribunal TDSAT's judgement that held 3G roaming pacts between operators valid.

Valour, victory and voices
15 years back, on 26 July, our nation celebrated as our soldiers won the Kargil War. To commemorate the valour of the war heroes, a musical evening was organised.

India stare at crushing defeat
India were staring at a crushing defeat after yet another miserable batting display gave England a complete stranglehold in the third cricket Test.

Kajol’s back with a woman-centric film produced by Ajay
Kajol will feature next in a women-centric film to be produced by her husband Ajay Devgn.

Will Ethiopia finally get its tourism act together?
Ethiopia seems to be stuck in Discovery channel, while other African countries have fetched adequate minutes on various Travel shows. Kenya is known for its Safaris, Egypt eternally for the Sphinx, South Africa for its wildlife and wines, but Horn of Africa doesn’t carry similar recall value.

Silent assassin
In the national capital, the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences alone comes across nearly 30,000 cases of non-regressive chronic liver disease cases in a year, which ultimately end in liver failure. These patients are really faced with just two options: an immediate transplant or a painful death.