In another display of Mumbai's indomitable spirit, the maximum city opened its heart and hearth for millions left high and dry following Tuesday's deluge -- the heaviest rainfall after 2005.


Mumbai opens heart and hearth for deluge-hit people


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A Goa police station's decision to curtail Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations at its premises to five days, instead of seven or 11 days as has been the custom for decades, has won appreciation from people in Goa's second biggest town Margao.


A Goa police station and Lord Ganesh


Union minister Smriti Irani and Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Arvind Panagariya on Tuesday awarded 12 women from different parts of the country to recognise the transformational impact of their work across villages, towns and cities.


12 women awarded for 'transforming India'


Veteran actor Dilip Kumar has expressed his concern and offered prayers for the people of Maharashtra as some cities of the state are under the spell of torrential rains which have paralysed Mumbai, Thane, Palghar and Raigad.


Maharashtra floods: Dilip Kumar prays for safety of people


A team of doctors at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) performing a complicated surgery to separate a pair of conjoined twins from Odisha has completed 30 per cent of the surgery and the condition of the twins who are joined at the head is stable.


30% surgery of conjoined twins completed; condition stable: AIIMS doctor


The central government on Tuesday told the Delhi High Court that criminalizing marital rape may destabilize the institution of marriage apart from being an easy tool for harassing husbands.


Criminalizing marital rape may become tool for harassing husbands: Centre to HC


A man fought with three bears on Tuesday and managed to save his sister's life in Gumla district of Jharkhand.


Man fights with bears to save sister's life in Jharkhand


Seven women, including six minors, who had gone missing on Monday while trekking in the picturesque Chorla area in Western Ghats along the Karnataka-Goa border, were rescued by Karnataka Forest Department officials on Tuesday after a massive combing operation, an official said.


Lost Goan women trekkers rescued by Karnataka forest officials


In the metro cities of India, men prefer women for their kindness factor rather than their attractive looks quotient, according to a survey.


Men prefer kindness over attractiveness in women


Veteran actress-activist Shabana Azmi believes marriage is not made in heaven in Islam and that it's a contract.


Marriage not made in heaven in Islam: Shabana


Sticking to her promise made on Independence Day, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday said that a Pakistani baby who is in a critical condition will be given a medical visa for treatment in India.


Sushma offers medical visa to Pakistani baby


Old age homes for the cash-rich have been around in some Indian cities for quite a while, but the concept has only now arrived in Kerala, a state where those over 60 make up 12.6 per cent of of the population. The national average is 8.6 per cent.


Posh old-age homes a boon for parents of cash-rich Keralite NRIs


Title: Bangalore: A Graphic Novel; Authors: Various; Compiled by: Jai Undurti & Praveen Vempadapu; Publisher: Syenagiri; Pages: 84; Price: Rs 400


Vivid, nostalgic and unsettling tales of a city in transition (Book Review) 


Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday announced that his wife Priscilla Chan has given birth to their second daughter and posted a photo of his family saying that he and his wife "are optimists about your generation and the future".


We're optimists about your generation: Zuckerberg to his new-born daughter


Did you know the British government in pre-Independence India suspected that the students of the 200-year-old Presidency College (now Presidency University) could be "secretly associated with revolutionary activities" and they could use the laboratory chemicals to make bombs?


Online exhibition documents Presidency's link with Independence movement


Performing a rare surgery, doctors at a hospital here gave a 35-year-old man his thumb back by grafting his big toe in its place.


Man loses thumb, gets toe as replacement


Train services between the northeastern region of India and the rest of the country are expected to resume on a trial basis from Tuesday, officials said on Monday.


Railway services to NE region likely to resume from Tuesday


Delhi has recorded a total of 945 cases of Dengue and 339 cases of Chikungunya, according to the latest data released by civic agencies on Monday.


945 Dengue, 339 Chikungunya cases in Delhi so far


A lost collection of nearly 150 letters from the British codebreaker Alan Turing has been uncovered in an old filing cabinet at the University of Manchester, the media reported.


Codebreaker Alan Turing's letters found in filing cabinet


An engineering student was stopped from killing himself in West Bengal after his college authorities alerted the CID about his involvement in the dangerous online game, the Blue Whale Challenge.


Blue Whale suicide attempt foiled in Bengal


Beijing will create 15 new parks this year, local authorities said on Monday.

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