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KOLKATA: From hills to plains to beaches, demand has shot up for Bengal's favourite weekend holiday destinations during the long weekend between Eid-e-Milad on Thursday and Gandhi Jayanti on Monday. With a leave taken on Friday, it is possible to have a five-day break from September 28 to October 2."I had planned this long weekend trip some days in advance and had taken leave from office accordingly. My...

BENGALURU: India’s first solar space observatory mission, Aditya-L1, early Tuesday began its 110-day-long journey to L1, about 1.5-million-km from Earth, with Isro completing the Trans-Lagrangian1 Insertion (TLI) flawlessly.The L1 refers to Lagrange Point-1 of the Sun-Earth system. It is a location in space where the gravitational forces of two celestial bodies, such as the Sun and Earth, are in...

Amidst reports of Neha Marda being hospitalised due to pregnancy-related complications around a week ago in Kolkata, we have now learnt that the Balika Vadhu actress has delivered a baby girl. She says, “My BP became a concern soon after I got pregnant, and it went erratic in the fifth month. Our doctor had prepared us for it in advance. Complications were expected but fortunately, everything went...