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Doctors Strike Opens Fissures In Bengal

'The Bengali middle class, who never fully embraced Mamata Banerjee's policies, are now expressing their deep-seated frustration by spilling out on to the streets.' IMAGE: A torch rally from......

Bengal bandh: BJP workers clash with police

Bharatiya Janata Party workers clashed with the police at several places across West Bengal on Wednesday as they tried to enforce a 12-hour shutdown, which had a mixed impact in the state. IMAGE:......

New principal of RG Kar hospital removed amid protests

The West Bengal government removed three senior officials of the RG Kar hospital, bowing to the demand of junior doctors who have been protesting against the alleged rape and murder of a......

Did Lakshmir Bhandar Help Mamata Win?

The welfare schemes of the government, particularly Lakshmir Bhandar, have had a major impact on the electoral outcome. IMAGE: Trinanool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee shows a victory sign after......

Why MamataDi Won Bengal

'Women are likely to have voted because of the numerous welfare schemes. The CAA consolidated minority votes and the BJP's booth-level organisation in Bengal is weak.' IMAGE: Trinamool Congress......

Tomato Is Not The Villain Of Price Rise!

How is it that tomatoes recorded a price fall in official statistics when it remained unaffordable for the common person in June? IMAGE: A vendor loads tomatoes for a customer in Mumbai: A......

Nilekani donates Rs 315 cr to alma mater IIT-Bombay

Nandan Nilekani, co-founder and chairman of Infosys and the founding chairman of UIDAI, has donated Rs 315 crore to the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. IMAGE: Nandan Nilekani.......

Will Bajaj Finserv MF be able to live up to expectations?

The mutual fund (MF) industry has seen a fair number of new entrants in the last 10 years but none of them have proved to be much of a challenge for the larger players. Illustration: Dominic......

Ex-SBI chief's book is frank, but is it fearless?

Barring stray references such as the 'dual control' of banks and shifting the goalposts during demonetisation, he is not in a fault-finding mode with the government, notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.......

Public sector bankers have got away for too long

Nothing has ever been done to make bank officers accountable, except for the rare actions when there is a public controversy, argues Debashis Basu. IMAGE: Former SBI chairman Pratip Chaudhuri was......

'Why Are Stars Being Paid Rs 35 Crore?'

'Everyone knows the money the stars are asking for is absurd.' IMAGE: Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff in Bade Miyan Chote Miyan, a box office flop. Ashok Kumar is widely recognised as Hindi cinema's......

'Prasanth wanted Yash to play Hanuman'

'Since God was being shown in live action on such a large scale, Prasanth was initially sceptical about going with an animated character.' IMAGE: Teja Sajja in HanuMan. Prasanth Varma's Telugu......

'I'd have loved to present Pratidwandi at Cannes'

'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......

When EATING Gave Nimrat SLEEPLESS NIGHTS

'I am greedy to have my eggs in different baskets.' IMAGE: Nimrat Kaur in Dasvi. Photograph: Kind courtesy Nimrat Kaur/ nstagram As Nimrat Kaur returns to the Indian screen in the role of a......

Do You Really Know Bollywood?

Sukanya Verma quizzes you to find out just how much you know about the movies. All pandemic and no play life a drag. So here's our fun and film quiz to the rescue. Simply identify the movie from......

ISL: Dominant Chennaiyin thrash hosts Jamshedpur

IMAGE: Chennaiyin FC's Wilmar Jordan Gil celebrates after scoring against Jamshedpur FC. Photograph: Indian Super League A dominant Chennaiyin FC returned to winning ways in style as they pumped in......

Bajrang opts out of Worlds trials to chase Asiad gold

Photograph: Kind Courtesy Bajrang Punia/Instagram Olympic medallist Bajrang Punia is set to leave for Issyk-kul in Kyrgyzstan to train for the upcoming Asian Games after skipping the trials for......

Asian Games: Bajrang in list as India to send record 634 athletes

IMAGE: Bajrang Punia was named in India’s contingent for the Asian Games. Photograph: Hannah McKay/Reuters A record number of 634 sportspersons were on Friday cleared by the Sports Ministry......

Whatever they command, I'm ready to obey: Bajrang

IMAGE: Ahead of the Asian Games, Bajrang Punia said he would honour the decision taken by the panchayats. Photograph: Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters Olympic bronze medallist Bajrang Punia on Thursday......

'What we will miss is the competition'

'It's not just the wins and losses, but the competition is something they live for.''That will be missing whatever Sania takes up.' IMAGE: Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis with the Wimbledon women's......

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