'Amit Shahji, Naddaji, all of us do the same work'

You may be an MP or an MLA; when we go to Bengal, we go as cadre.'Swarupa Dutt/Rediff.com speaks to BJP leaders deputed to go to West Bengal on election duty. IMAGE: Rajya Sabha MP Rupa Ganguly --......

Where have Santiniketan's cycle rickshaws gone?

The cycle rickshaws in Santiniketan have been replaced by battery-run 'totos'.These 'totos' strangely are not registered with the regional transport authority but by the strange rules of West......

View: Tagore never ate 'Kurkure'

It is only in retrospect that I realise how many things I took for granted when I lived in Mumbai. Roads, street lights, water, sanitation, garbage disposal, etc. were not issues which were top of......

WB: Bird flu spreads to poultry farms

Fresh poultry deaths were reported from a farm in South 24-Parganas in West Bengal on Wednesday, raising fears that the dreaded H5N1 virus might be spreading to the organised sector after affecting......