Naveen Patnaik in a Tee and Tracksuit!

Long before he moved to Bhubaneswar to become a politician, Naveen Patnaik was an international globe trotter, an aesthete whose company was sought out by people like Jacqueline Onassis (who edited......

Bengali musical icon Sandhya Mukherjee passes away

Legendary Bengali semi-classical singer Sandhya Mukherjee, who had worked with leading music directors such as S D Burman, Naushad and Salil Chaudhury died on Tuesday evening following a massive......

6 killed, 45 injured as Bikaner-Guwahati Express derails in Bengal

At least six people were killed and more than 45 injured when 12 coaches of the Bikaner-Guwahati Express train derailed and some overturned near Domohani in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district on......

Mamata stuns BJP, leads TMC to landslide victory in Bengal

Mamata Banerjee steamrolled the Bharatiya Janata Party election war machine as she powered the Trinamool Congress to a two thirds majority in the assembly elections and secured a third straight......

Mudra Bank is more politics and less economics

Even if Mudra steps in to play its main role of refinancing at some stage, the responsibility for the bad loans remains with the banks, notes Debashis Basu. About a month ago, Business......

Complexities found in Indrani's companies, too

SFIO tried to sift through changed names, cross-holdings in INX Group Like her family members and relationships, Indrani Mukerjea’s companies had multiple identities and were entangled in a......

Accept pay cut to avoid jobloss, Air India to staff

Faced with a grim scenario, Air India management has asked its employees to consider the financial crisis facing the company and accept proposals to cut wages and other costs in order to avoid job......

Small screen, big buyouts

Anil Ambani's Adlabs buys a controlling stake in Siddhartha Basu's television production company Synergy Communications. Other than Mastermind for BBC, Synergy has producedKaun Banega Crorepati......

2020's 12 Lessons from Bollywood

Every year has its ups and downs. But pandemic-ridden 2020 was so hopeless and horrid, many would like to erase it altogether from the calendar if not memory. Bollywood couldn't escape its wrath......

The Legend is dead, his work lives on

IMAGE: Soumitra Chatterjee and Tushar Bandyopadhya in Satyajit Ray's Apur Sansar, He was the actor who epitomised the best of world cinema, transcending the boundaries of country, state and......

Discovering the charming Soumitra Chatterjee

Soumitra Chatterjee -- one of the finest Indian actors of our time -- meant so much to Aseem Chhabra. IMAGE: Soumita Chatterjee and Sharmila Tagore in Satyajit Ray's Apur Sansar. He had a thick......

'You were part of my childhood, Dada'

'These days you are the main inspiration for a lot of young film-makers. They are mimicking your films.' IMAGE: Anil Kapoor and Amrita Singh in Chameli Ki Shaadi. The film fraternity mourned the......