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Why Bengal Guv Ananda Bose gave a miss to JU convocation

West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Tuesday gave a miss to the convocation of the prestigious Jadavpur University with the Raj Bhavan maintaining that due formalities were not followed in......

I had to leave India to be safe: Amitava Kumar

Writer Amitava Kumar tells Aseem Chhabra about life after he read from The Satanic Verses at the Jaipur Literary Festival. Last week Amitava Kumar -- the New York -based writer and professor of......

Supreme Court gets a new judge, Justice Datta sworn-in

Bombay high court Chief Justice Dipankar Datta was on Monday administered the oath of office as a Supreme Court judge by Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud. Justice Datta, son of the......

Collegium elevates Bombay HC chief justice to SC

The Supreme Court collegium has recommended the elevation of the Chief Justice of Bombay high court, Justice Dipankar Datta, as a judge of the apex court. According to a statement uploaded on the......

Love in most unusual places

Essential Services, A Very Short Story, by Amitava Kumar.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Every day that week a line formed outside the liquor store by noon. Those in line stood six feet......

NMDC posts record 15% rise in iron ore production in April

State-owned NMDC has reported a 15 per cent rise in its iron ore production and 3 per cent growth in sales of the mineral in April. Photograph: David Gray/Reuters In a statement on Sunday, NMDC......

'Ambition to double the business within three years'

'The way the bank is doing in the past 4-5 quarters, no reason to see why we will not be able to achieve that.' Photograph: ANI Photo Amitava Chatterjee took charge as managing director & chief......

Number of people averse to govt surveys rises over 2x in 5 yrs

The number of people averse to the surveys by the National Statistical Office (NSO) has more than doubled over the last five years between the 75th National Sample Survey (NSS) round (July 2017-......

What Fortune 500 cos can learn from Tatas, Godrej

Winning global markets is not about acquiring or developing technology but about developing solutions for target consumers, Amitava Chattopadhyay, the INSEAD Chaired Professor of Marketing and......

This IIT-ian uses theatre to promote jobs, leadership

He could have enjoyed a cushy job at the Tata Consultancy Services or could have minted money as a Silicon Valley software professional (he worked for Techna Incorporated in California). But......

'Soumitra Chatterjee is bigger than a Ray actor'

'He never went to the Bombay industry.' IMAGE: Soumitra Chatterjee and Madhabi Mukherjee in Satyajit Ray's classic Charulata. There is a story Soumitra Chatterjee likes to tell. In the......

Amitava meets Sourav Ganguly

Reader Amitava sent us this picture from Hyderabad. 'This is myself (second from left) and my team with Sourav Ganguly, the world's most stylish southpaw and a successful captain of India. This......

Kolkata turns pink for day-night Test

Kolkata sheds its white-blue nocturnal hue with pink ball day-night Test.Avishek Rakshit reports from Kolkata. Kolkata has discarded the white-blue colours it had come to be identified......

Bose puts Bengal in control

Bengaltook controlof the Ranji Trophy Super league tie againstMaharashtra, scoring199 for 5on Tuesday,in reply tothe hosts' 215, at the Eden Gardens. Bengal reachedthe healthy total with good......

'BCCI decision unjust, unfair'

The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB)on Mondaydubbed the suspension of its President Jagmohan Dalmiya by the BCCI as "unfair and unjust"."The matter came up for hearing before theMumbai high......

Haldipur sparkles for Bengal

An unbeaten 79 by Nikhil Haldipur and his 119-run opening wicket partnership with Amitava Chakraborthy (58) helped Bengal reach 207 for three against Tamil Nadu on the rain-interrupted first day of......