While the foot-over bridge connecting the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium with the parking lot collapsed on Tuesday at least 23 labourers injured, the engineers involved in the project feel that incessant rains are leaving various projects unfinished.

The Delhi police arrested a suspected Pakistani spy who was in Delhi for the last one year allegedly doing recce of Army installations. With the arrest, the police has claimed to have seized confidential documents related to Indian Army from his possession.

Defending the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) as an “essential instrument” which gives troops a “security blanket” to operate in strife-torn areas, minister of state for defence M.M. Pallam Raju on Tuesday said the Army was being “demonised” and made a “scapegoat” in Jammu and Kashmir.

The relationship between the Pakistani and English cricket teams is close to breaking point over the match and spot-fixing allegations that have dogged the Test and one-day series.

The Kolkata police arrested a person from a posh nursing home in south Kolkata for duping people by making false promises of arranging kidneys for the patients. The police is yet to ascertain whether the accused is a mere fraudster or a part of a larger kidney racket.

Three years after Rizwanur Rehman’s mysterious death, his mother Kiswar Jehan is still in waiting for insaaf. She, however, said that she has not lost hope. “Mujhe umeed hai ke mujhe insaaf milega aur sach ki hi jeet hogi (I hope that I will get justice and truth will triumph),” she said on Tuesday at her Tiljala Road residence with a photograph of Rizwanur in her lap.

Two first year students of a college were run over by a train near Barasat on Tuesday morning. One of the two had her ears plugged with earphones connected to her mobile phone and hence she failed to hear the approaching train as she was crossing the tracks on her way to the college. The other girl who had safely crossed the

In an apparent bid to woo the Matuas, chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Tuesday conferred the Sri Sri Thakur Harichand-Guruchand award on Kapil Krishna Thakur and announced several sops for the community’s welfare. Mr Thakur is the sanghadhipati of the Matua Mahasabha.

CRPF Wives’ Welfare Association organised a photo exhibition at the India Habitat Centre in the city showcasing the spectrum of activities undertaken by CRPF in the Left-Wing extremism (LWE) area.