The seven directors of tragedy-hit AMRI Hospital was on Saturday sent to police custody till December 20. The directors, Radhe Shyam Goenka, Prashant Goenka, Manish Goenka, Shrawan Kumar Todi, Ravi Todi, Dayanand Aggarwal and Radhe Ahyam Aggarwal surrendered at the police station on Friday evening. They were later arrested for negligence and culpable homocide.

Yoga guru Swami Ramdev on Saturday extended his support to the fight against illegal mining in Goa and warned of a hunger strike if the Congress-led government in the state did not come clean on the issue.

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie doesn’t have any girlfriends and says partner Brad Pitt is the only person she talks to.
The 36-year-old Oscar-winning actress raises six children — Maddox, 10, Pax, right, Zahara, six, Shiloh, five, and three-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne — with Pitt.

With shouts of “I love you Shah Rukh” emanating from a thousand strong crowd, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan unveiled the look of his upcoming action thriller 'Don 2' at the ongoing Dubai International Film Festival and ever the charmer, the actor said he has made bad look really good in the movie.

84 persons mostly patients choked to death when a major fire engulfed a multi-speciality centrally- airconditioned seven-storey 190-bed AMRI private hospital in the metropolis early on Friday.

At least 55 people were killed, most due to suffocation, in a massive fire at the AMRI hospital in south Kolkata early on Friday. Many more are believed to be trapped in the building, even as firemen, who many complained had reached the spot only after two hours, brought out the dead and injured using ropes and ladders.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday directed cancellation of the licence of AMRI hospital at Dhakuria where 70 patients died in a devastating fire.

More than 70 patients in Kolkata’s well known AMRI hospital were killed along with three staffers when a blaze started in the basement of the annexe building early on Friday and toxic fumes quickly spread to the other floors, trapping hundreds of people.

The presence of Mamata Banerjee and the media only triggered further chaos and resentment at the fire-ravaged AMRI hospital on Friday, as police even resorted to batons to disperse the crowds.

The US has discounted rumours of a 'silent coup' against Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari after reports that he had gone to Dubai following a heart attack.