Kolkata experienced a unique and powerful display of civic solidarity when residents turned off their lights for an hour from 9 pm on Wednesday and came down to the streets with burning candles to......
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee appears set to take the shot at retaining her post by contesting from her old bastion, the Bhabanipur assembly constituency, after state minister and......
After spending 40 years in the Indian Army, Lieutenant General Subrata Saha (retd) marches into the electoral battlefield as the BJP candidate from Rashbehari. IMAGE: Lieutenant General Subrata......
The army's poster boy for the "Make in India" initiative, Lt General Subrata Saha (retired), has been fielded by the Bharatiya Janata Party from Rashbehari assembly constituency in West Bengal.......
The fiercest cyclone to hit Bengal in 100 yrs destroyed mud houses and crops, and uprooted trees and electric poles.Windows buckled from the pressure of the storm, cars floated on water-logged......
It’s mid-morning and the two-kilometre stretch from Rashbehari Avenue to Gariahat Market is bustling with activity. Photograph: Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters Dotted with saree shops and......
'He was asked to do the KYC again because the earlier exercise would not do as they were 'computerising.''Getting the records transferred to the reluctant computer would take time and so he was......
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......
'Where Pratidwandi is concerned, there are very few men standing.' IMAGE: Dhritiman Chatterjee in Satyajit Ray's Pratidwandi. Dhritiman Chatterjee, a post-graduate in economics, came from a world......
''We have to scale down our theatre's seating capacity by tweaking the arrangement of seats.''We have to stop screening back-to-back shows to ensure that people do not bump into one another.'......