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CBI raids houses of Bengal minister, TMC MLA in civic body recruitment scam

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Sunday conducted searches at 12 locations, including at the residences of senior West Bengal minister Firhad Hakim and Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra, in......

Teacher job scam: ED quizzes TMC's Abhishek Banerjee for 9 hours

Senior Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee was on Wednesday questioned by the Enforcement Directorate for a marathon nine hours in connection with the West Bengal teacher recruitment scam,......

CBI arrests TMC MLA in school jobs scam

Trinamool Congress MLA Jiban Krishna Saha was arrested on Monday by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from his residence in West Bengal's Murshidabad district in connection with its......

Will Partha's arrest in SSC scam impact Mamata?

After the Trinamool’s overwhelming majority in the West Bengal assembly elections last year, the SSC scam has given fresh ammunition to the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Communist Party of......

Hit by Partha episode, Trinamool plans major overhaul, cabinet rejig

The Trinamool Congress is likely to go in for a major organisational overhaul as well as a reshuffle of the state cabinet following the arrest of now-suspended senior party leader Partha Chatterjee......

The dancing legends wowing India

Bharata Natyam legends Shanta and V P Dhananjayan discover they are a national sentation after their Vodafone ads.Nikita Puri encounters a couple who believe in breaking moulds. IMAGE: Shanta and......

Will Mamata's second term mark a fresh start for industry in Bengal?

The populist measures Mamata Banerjee took in the last five years helped her win the elections; some fear that this could set the tone of her government for the next five years, says Ishita Ayan......

'Investors can now see the advantages of coming to Bengal'

'West Bengal is an industry-friendly state.' Despite the Saradha scam, the Narada sting video and the collapse of the under-construction Vivekananda flyover in Kolkata, the Trinamool Congress......

From an industrial hub to a model village: Nandigram's success story

From an industrial hub as envisaged by the Left regime, Nandigram today is a conglomeration of model villages fenced by its greenery. Image: Nandigram transforms into a model village. Photograph:......

How India can escape the dry spell doom

Since 2000, India has had three serious droughts. The World Bank has estimated that the 2012 drought reduced the country's gross domestic product by half a percentage point, even though it was not......

Pixar's desi star who may win an Oscar

'John Lasseter gave me such good advice. He said the reason why he wanted me to tell the story was because it was about my dad and me. He said if it is a father and son story, it will relate......

Review: Oru Kanniyum Moonu Kalavaanikalum is interesting

Oru Kanniyum Moonu Kalavaanikalum is not your average run-of-the-mill comedy, says S Saraswathi.Director Chimbu Deven is known for his fantasy films such as Imsai Arasan 23-am Pulikesi and Arai En......

Akkineni Nageswara Rao lived and breathed cinema

Akkineni Nageswara Rao was one of the people instrumental in bringing the Telugu industry to Hyderabad from Chennai in the 1990s. Radhika Rajamani salutes the thespian, who passed into the......

Review: Naveena Saraswathi Sabatham disappoints

Tamil film Naveena Saraswathi Sabatham is a pathetic first attempt, according to S Saraswathi.K Chandru, who was mentored by ace comic directors C S Amudhan (Tamizh Padam) and Venkat Prabhu,......

Ramayana magic recreated in Telugu

In the early and middle decades of the last century, several mythological films were made in Telugu revolving around the epics and stories from the Puranas, with actors such as the late N T Rama......

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