2002-09-29 04:00:00 PDT Calcutta-- Rickshaw puller Mohammed Hussein is deterred neither by torrential rains that swamp Calcutta streets, nor the heavy-handed heat that melts the tar beneath his ...

Not so long ago few cities in the world suffered a worse reputation than Calcutta. Its name conjured up visions of overcrowded slums, disease and of profound human misery that could only be relieved ...

KOLKATA, India (AP) — It took 68 days for Satyen Das to laboriously pedal his rickety, self-remodeled bicycle rickshaw from the seaside Indian city of Kolkata to the roof of the world — a 5,369-meter ...

India's economic boom has reached Calcutta, a city better known for crushing poverty. The city wants to ban hand-pulled rickshaws, calling them medieval and inhumane. Officials promise to provide ...

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