Doctors of the ENT department of a government hospital, on Tuesday, successfully removed a molar tooth from the lung of a 65-year-old man.

Dr. R. Hasda, one of the surgeons who operated on the man, said that Mr. Rajendra Prasad Gupta, a resident of Garulia in North 24-Parganas, gulped a loose molar mistakenly three years back, and it got stuck in the in the right bronchus.

The doctor said, “He started having respiratory problems following that. He also suffered from recurrent chest infection.”

Hanoi  - One construction worker was killed and another seriously injured in Ho Chi Minh City when a span of the bridge they were building collapsed, a doctor said Wednesday.

The accident occurred Tuesday at the 500-meter-long Cho Dem Bridge on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City.

Tran Van Thanh, 26, suffered badly broken legs and died of blood loss in hospital.

"We mobilized all our forces, but we could not save his life," said Dr Pham Van Nghiem, a senior official in the Ho Chi Minh City Health Department.

Suva, Mar. 10: As people flee the coup-hit nation of Fiji, its ethnic Indian population is rapidly declining, a Government statistic has revealed.

Government Statistician Timoci Bainimarama, brother of Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama released last year''''s census data on Monday, which shows that Indians now make up only 37.5 percent of the 837,000 people.

Washington, Mar 10: It’s not only humans who plan for future events, chimpanzees too possess the ability to prepare in advance for any danger or calamity, says a new study.

Researchers described such behaviour after their decade long observation in which they saw that chimpanzees in a zoo calmly collect stones and fashion concrete discs that they would later use to hurl at zoo visitors.

Kampala  - Eleven people died Monday when a Russian-made cargo plane carrying supplies for the African Union (AU) peace keeping mission in Somalia, burst into flames and clashed into Lake Victoria soon after take-off from Uganda's Entebbe international airport, a government statement said.

Allahabad, Mar 9 : A tribe of milkmen community celebrated Holi, the festival of colours, with milk, curd and butter during the weekend.

They worship Lord Krishna as their family deity and thus celebrate the festival using his favourite items - milk, butter, curd and Chhach (butter milk).

"Milk and curd are used to play Holi. we perform prayers for Lord Krishna and then celebrate Holi two days before Holi and two days after," said Uday Bansi, a resident.