Trinamool reappoints Mahua Moitra as Krishnanagar district chief

Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, currently facing recommendations for expulsion from the Lok Sabha in a cash-for-query row, was tasked with strengthening the party's organisation in West......

Parties prefer turncoats over old-timers in Bengal

The ruling Trinamool Congress and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party in Bengal might be pulling out all the stops to go for each other's jugular in the assembly polls, but......

India marks low-key Yoga Day due to COVID-19

The sixth International Yoga Day is being observed across the world. “Yoga unites, spreads brotherhood,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who played an instrumental role in popularising......

64% turnout in 4th phase of Lok Sabha polls

Seventy-one parliamentary constituencies spread across nine states voted in the fourth phase of Lok Sabha elections. -- INDIA VOTES IMAGE: Voters stand in a queue to cast their votes at a polling......

Bollywood's Parsi power!

And no, says Sukanya Verma, the list doesn't start and stop with Boman Irani! Often caricatured on celluloid, there's more to the small but solid Parsi community than quirks and accent. Quite a few......

Review: Rangoon is a grand hotchpotch!

Rangoon is too fuzzy and half-hearted, feels Sukanya Verma. 'Aurat' he scoffs at her apparent naiveté.  'Aurat,' she reminds him, seconds after demonstrating her fruit ninja......

Review: Rangoon, an explosion by Vishal Bhardwaj

'Rangoon haunts in unlikely fashion and, while the director's most straightforward picture, holds enough of its own marvels to justify multiple viewings,' notes Raja Sen. She doesn't want to sit on......

'I can't say I'm as big as the Khans'

'Apart from being total eye-candies, Saif and Shahid are very good actors.' 'Saif is that classy man, who would open the door for you and pull chairs for you.' 'Shahid would come to the sets......

SAFF Cup: Pakistani scribe slammed for sexist comments

IMAGE: Soon after the Pakistan team thrashed Maldives 7-0 in the SAFF Championship match played earlier this week, a Pakistani journalist asked the team manager about the shorts worn by the......

Tokyo Olympics: How India's athletes fared on Monday, July 26

IMAGE: India's Achanta Sharath Kamal reacts after winning his men's singles Round 2 table tennis match against Portugal's Tiago Apolonia at the Tokyo Games on Monday. Photograph: Thomas......

WATCH: Somersaulting Kolkata kids impress Nadia Comaneci

The video of Jashika Khan, 11, and Mohammad Azajuddin, 12, somersaulting and cartwheeling went viral on social media. IMAGE: Jashika Khan and Mohammad Azajuddin at the Sports Authority of India......

PIX: 20 champs who made their mark at a young age

Golfer Rory McIlroy won the US Open by eight shots in record style on Sunday, confirming his rich promise as a potential golfing great by becoming the championship's youngest winner since 1923.......

India claims two more gold in shooting

India grabbed two more gold medals through Jaspal Rana, in centre fire pistol individual event, and Rajkumari, in 50 m sports rifle prone 60 shots, in shooting in the ninth SAF Games in Islamabad......