West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said Narendra Modi should be referred to as a Bharatiya Janata Party leader and not as the prime minister in the saffron party's campaign as he......
A lesson we have not learnt from China is the urgent need to knit the vast country together to keep it from falling apart at the seams.While there is considerable dent in poverty, sadly, the North......
Crack meters installed in the damaged houses of Joshimath have registered no further widening of cracks in the last three days, but water discharge from an underground channel near JP Colony has......
Please click on the images for glimpses of India in the grip of the pandemic. IMAGE: A COVID-19 infected patient at a Covid care centre at the Commonwealth Games village in New Delhi.......
The flourishing town, with restaurants selling everything from noodles to dosas and locals returning home to new business prospects, shows little sign of the tension building up at the border about......
West Bengal's longest serving chief minister Jyoti Basu once told an industrialist that capitalists were class enemies and he should expect no sympathy.Ishita Ayan Dutt tracks the political......
There are around 6,500 diamond manufacturers of which Palanpuri Jains operate a mere 6 per cent, or around 400 companies. But they stand out for being highly interlinked through blood ties. ......
'One’s dreams never end. If you don’t dream, you don’t exist. You need to dream to look forward to in life.' Radha Daga, who went from a textile exporter to food entrepreneur at......
The Marwari businessmen of Kolkata are a worried lot under Mamata Banerjee's rule. Around a thousand people had gathered at Shibpur, south of Kolkata, on an October morning to take part in the......
For centuries, businessmen are favourite punching bags of the powers that be whenever public opinion needs to be controlled. To say that the Marwari business community of Kolkata is on......
'He said, "There was nobody to help me. I came from Kolkata to Mumbai to make a career of my own".'"'I have my own journey, and you need to experience that to value what you will have in the......
To those who feel that Dhadak doesn't measure up to Sairat, Kshamaya Daniel, 18, has one piece of advice: We're talking about wine here, not scotch. Imagine this: You're having a get-together at......
'As a remake of Sairat, Dhadak is a travesty.''As a standalone, Dhadak is standard Bollywood boy-meets-girl drivel.''As a showcase, Dhadak is a promise that will take some more effort to fully......
Film director Jagmohan Mundhra passed away in Mumbai on Sunday, family sources said. He was 62.Mundhra, whowas in the hospital for the last three days, suffered a major cardiac arrest.His cremation......
Reality television show Indian Idol II has not one, but two clear winners. Karunya and Sandeep felt the sweat on the palms of their hands and on their foreheads, even as anchors Mini Mathur and......
Tulsidas Balaram, who passed into the ages last week, was a member of the Indian football team which reached the semis at the Olympics and won an Asian Games gold medal. IMAGE: Tulsidas Balaram,......