At 135 kmph, cyclone 'Remal' to make landfall in Bengal tonight

Cyclone 'Remal' has intensified into a severe cyclonic storm and is expected to make landfall between West Bengal's Sagar Island and Bangladesh's Khepupara on Sunday night, the India......

Day after Adhir snub, Kharge's posters defaced outside Bengal Cong HQ

A day after he snubbed West Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury for questioning Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee's loyalty to the INDIA bloc, several posters and hoardings of......

Modi meets women from Sandeshkhali, slams TMC

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday tore into the Trinamool Congress, asserting that the 'storm of Sandeshkhali' will echo throughout West Bengal, where 'Nari Shakti' (woman power) would play......

Shahjahan Sheikh handed over to CBI over 2.5 hrs after HC deadline

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday got the custody of Sandeshkhali Enforcement Directorate (ED) official attack case accused Shahjahan Sheikh from the West Bengal Criminal......

Should you worry about the new face recognition system at airports?

Organisations like the Internet Freedom Foundation and many other activists have slammed the project stating that the system could be misused in a country where there is no data protection or......

How Lakshmi Vilas Bank eroded its wealth amid controversy and losses

How did a profitable bank founded to serve small businesses in 1926 by a group of businessmen from the Vysya community - a trader caste based in southern and central India - come to this pass? T E......

How the Communists killed Bengal's industry

West Bengal's longest serving chief minister Jyoti Basu once told an industrialist that capitalists were class enemies and he should expect no sympathy.Ishita Ayan Dutt tracks the political......

Some questions for Parliament panel to ask RBI guv

James Wilson has been tracking the demonetisation drive since it was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 8. During his investigation, he discovered that contrary to claims, no new......

ODI World Cup Schedule: Another date change for Pakistan?

IMAGE: Pakistan’s match at the Eden Gardens might see a date change. Photograph: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters The Cricket Association of Bengal on Saturday requested ICC recce team about concerns......

Sourav Ganguly's security cover upgraded to Z category

IMAGE: As per the new security arrangement, Sourav Ganguly will have 8 to 10 police personnel guarding him. Photograph: BCCI The West Bengal government has decided to upgrade the security cover of......

Justice For Shami!

Neeraj Kumar, the former Delhi super cop, headed the BCCI's Anti-Corruption Unit after he retired from government.A Cop In Cricket (Juggernaut) is a must-read account of Kumar's tenure at the......

Ganguly in home quarantine after brother tests positive for COVID-19

IMAGE: Sourav Ganuly, left, with his brother Snehasish Ganguly, right. Photograph: PTI Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly's elder brother and Cricket......

COVID-19: Eden Gardens as quarantine facility for police

The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) on Friday allowed the Kolkata Police to make use of under galleries of Eden Gardens for makeshift quarantine facility for police personnel. A meeting,......