How BJP's Chanakya met his waterloo in Bengal

The BJP could win only 16 out of the 57 seats in Bengal where Amit Shah campaigned, reports Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com. IMAGE: Bharatiya Janata Party leader Amit Anilchandra Shah on a roadshow......

India's COVID-19 tally nears 2.8 lakh; one-third in just 10 days

The nationwide COVID-19 tally neared 2.8 lakh on Wednesday with almost one-third of the total cases getting detected in just 10 days of June. IMAGE: A woman stands on a social distancing marker at......

With 1,752 COVID-19 cases, India sees biggest single-day jump; toll 723

The death toll due to the novel coronavirus rose to 723 with 37 fatalities reported since Thursday evening, while the number of cases saw a record jump of 1,752 to go up to 23,452 cases on Friday,......

Gautam Ghose's ode to Ray

"To me, it is an ode," says filmmakerGoutam Ghose, "not only to [Satyajit] Ray and his movie Aranyer Din Raatri [Days and Nights in the Forest], but to cinema, or more pointedly, to the......