Bharatiya Janata Party workers clashed with the police at several places across West Bengal on Wednesday as they tried to enforce a 12-hour shutdown, which had a mixed impact in the state. IMAGE:......
Junior doctors in West Bengal continued their indefinite hunger strike for the sixth consecutive day, drawing support from several senior doctors across the country and prompting the Indian Medical......
Amid the continuing impasse, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday made a surprise visit to the site where the junior doctors were protesting, and assured them that she would look......
The devastating fire at Kolkata's AMRI Hospital on Friday that has already claimed 89 lives is another brazen example of criminal negligence by hospital authorities. People of Better Treatment, a......
Twelve more people lost their lives due to consumption of spurious brew, taking the death toll in the hooch tragedy to 107 on Friday even as the crackdown on illicit liquor dens continued across......
The Union Budget just a week away. While economists and analysts are busy making predictions about the biggest annual financial event in the country, common people are no less interested either.......
India saw 4.2 million foreign tourists till May mainly thanks to visitors from Bangladesh Foreign tourist arrivals are growing at the highest pace in more than a decade, primarily due to a sharp......
Just as unregulated unauthorised hawkers and their shops can kill a city, some space needs to be carved out for distinctive affordable street food, says Shubir Roy. At Rs 5 per small glass of tea......
Health is wealth. That's old wisdom. We do not know if it is true in today's world. What we do know is that the corollary holds. For, if you lose your health, your treatment can be a major drain......
How do you spot change (not in outward look but in the way people think and feel) in a place with which you are over-familiar, having grown up there? By revisiting it after a gap.Mixed with the joy......
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities: Photographer Dabboo Ratnani is ready to launch his 2016 calendar and several celebrities turned to Twitter to share some......
Get well, Leander One of Kolkata's favourite sons, Leander Paes, is down with a brain ailment, but people in his hometown, so familiar with his on-court fightbacks, are confident he will emerge......
Living cricket legends Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara and Steve Waugh made a call for coaches, physios and trainers to be given longer tenures to ensure better results.The three greats, who are in......
'To be good at the heptathlon takes at least seven years; to compete internationally and win medals takes 10 years.''Swapna became Asia's best heptathlete in just five years!''Nobody would have......
Cricket lovers are likely to remember Lance Klusener more for his outstanding performance in the 1999 World Cup in England rather than anything else. But fact is there was more to the South......
Give cricket a chance, says Pakistani captain LatifPakistani captain Rashid Latif said on Thursday that early resumption of bilateral India-Pakistan cricket matches could play a big role in easing......