Santiniketan, the famed place in West Bengal where poet Rabindranath Tagore built Visva-Bharati over a century ago, has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. IMAGE: The clock tower at......
Calcutta high court on Thursday gave an interim stay against a move by Visva Bharati to take away a part of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's property Pratichi at Shantiniketan. IMAGE: A 2019......
Union Home Minister Amit Shah will arrive in Kolkata on Friday night on a two-day visit to take stock of the Bharatiya Janata Party's affairs in the state as the assembly elections draw......
Shantiniketan, the abode of Nobel Laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore, and Western Ghats can well be the India's next World Heritage Sites, if UNESCO accepts the country's proposal.......
Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said becoming prime minister is not the only 'job' in the world and that there were many other jobs a person could do. The scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family responded in......
NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paulsaid on Thursday G8 countries should abolish subsidies to their farmers in order to stop undermining the interests of farmers in developing countries like India.......
The UK-India research project is funded by Research Councils UK and India's Department of Science and Technology. Experts from the University of Leeds, University of Exeter, and University of......
Most people know Rezwan Razack as a promoter of Prestige Constructions, a well-known real estate developer in south India. But there's something about Razack that few people know - he is India's......
When the Nobel Prize marked its centenary in 2001, the foundation asked a handful of laureates for two mementos each that might be included in an exhibit. "They took away my bicycle, on which I had......
'In all humility I may say that I have come here also as a friend of the capitalists-- a friend of the Tatas. And here it would be ungrateful on my part, if I do not give you a little anecdote......
Mira Nair started shooting her new film, The Namesake, in Kolkata on Sunday, May 22. The film isan adaptation of Pulitzer-winning writer Jhumpa Lahiri's debut book of the same name. "The two-week......