Kolkata

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At 35 years and 274 days old, Satyarup Siddhanta became the youngest person in the world to scale the seven tallest peaks and seven volcanic summits in all continents.

While the metro officials claim that they acted immediately, passengers have complained that there was a delay in their response and that they broke open the windows of the AC coach and jumped out to save themselves.

"We have been educating our customers to pack the leftover food and donate it. In addition to the leftovers from our outlet, people of the city also donate food regularly. Sometimes we also have fresh food left in the fridge.”

It is incredible that in this day and age, despite all the ‘progress’ that the human civilisation has made, we allow such elements to dehumanise one of our basic instincts – that of nursing the offspring.

“It was during the computations of the northeastern observations that Sikdar rushed on one morning in 1852 into the room of Sir Andrew Waugh & exclaimed, ‘Sir, I have discovered the highest mountain of the world’.

For these three residents of Kolkata, it was just another evening as they were strolling around New Town. If they hadn’t been attentive, they would have missed the muffled cries of the 28-year-old who was in an auto.

Did you know that the historic Dakshineswar Kali temple attracts 1.4 crore people annually, with nearly 50,000 devotees visiting the temple on any given day?

The two primary areas where the organisation wanted to focus were education and medical services.

The Kolkata-bound flight was flying at 36,000 ft in the Bangladesh airspace while the Guwahati-bound flight was safely flying at 35,000 ft. This was when the Bangladesh ATC asked the former to descend to 35,000 ft, breaking the 1000 ft rule.