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We demand safer, just society for women, write eminent persons

The brutal rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata is a stark reminder of the deteriorating socio-cultural landscape and the grave threats faced by women in West Bengal, said a group of......

Suvendu's Career Hinges On Tamluk

'The life of his political career is dependent on success in this constituency.' IMAGE: Bharatiya Janata Party leaders Amit A Shah and Suvendu Adhikari during an election rally in Birbhum, May 10,......

Mamata, nephew call HC order on school jobs 'fixed', 'BJP ploy'

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday termed the cancellation of over 25,000 school jobs as 'gross injustice' and alleged that it was a ploy by the Bharatiya Janata Party to stop......

Kolkata Firms Who Bought Electoral Bonds

Trinamool Congress is the second highest recipient of political donations through electoral bonds. IMAGE: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during the Trinamool Congress's Jonogorjon......

Why Business Wants Modi To Return In 2024

The BJP is the preferred choice because it offers what the Mughals and later British offered in their time: A stable polity and an environment in which business could function, explains T N Ninan.......

How AgNext will make Farmers Money

'Our technology is going to help Indian agriculture the way the White Revolution helped milk production.' IMAGE: AgNext founder Taranjeet Singh Bhamra. Photograph: Kind courtesy Taranjeet Singh......

Creating urban commons

If we can come up with ways of sharing property rights on the internet, why not do something similar in urban spaces, asks Ajit Balakrishnan. Image: 50 per cent of our workforce is trapped in......

Amitabh Kant: An ambitious bureaucrat who wants to make India a biz hotspot

The Secretary of Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Amitabh Kant tells Rahul Jacob how India could be made an easier place to do business in and why India's software smarts will......

What ails Bengal's economy

Migration-causing vacuum in entrepreneurship continues to gnaw at the vitals of the state’s economy Industrial reverses that West Bengal suffered in the 1960s due to a lethal combination of......

Modiji, not just Teesta, talk of transit, transhipment, please!

Although India is projecting Modi’s forthcoming visit as an effort to focus on trade and mutual cooperation, issue of transit corridor is likely to top his agenda. After reaping huge social,......

How the Howrah Bridge played out in Bollywood

'To this day, not a year passes when Bollywood does not head to Kolkata to train its cameras on the magnificence of the bridge and the flow of life that pulses along the river across which it......

Satyajit Ray's Feluda turns 50

While Calcutta has transitioned to Kolkata, Satyajit Ray's detective, Feluda, has remained unchanged in the Bengali consciousness Here’s a mystery for Prodosh C Mitter to solve. How can a......

'I would have been the king of limited overs cricket'

'I am not envious of those who are making millions. It's their era and I had my era.' IMAGE: Cricket legend Salim Durani trains budding cricketers in Jamnagar in this January 2004 photograph.......

Former India all-rounder Durani passes away at 88

IMAGE: Kabul-born Salim Durani, who packed a punch with his bat and was also a handy left-arm orthodox bowler, played 29 Tests and was instrumental in India defeating England 2-0 in the historic......

Siraj Breaks Kapil's Lord's Record

Rajneesh Gupta lists the numbers from the fascinating final day of the Lord's Test. IMAGE: Mohammad Siraj bowls Jimmy Anderson and India have won an incredible victory at Lord's, August 16, 2021.......

Rajneesh's Believe It Or Not in Cricket!

Rajneesh Gupta lists some more amazing coincidences in cricket -- a feature guaranteed to amuse you in these anxious times. IMAGE: The Lord's cricket ground, owned by the Marylebone Cricket Club,......

Rohit's super stats from Visakhapatnam Test

Rajneesh Gupta presents the numbers from the first Test. IMAGE: Rohit Sharma celebrates scoring a hundred in his first Test as India opener. Photograph: BCCI The 317 run opening stand between......

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