Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday cautioned parents against treating their children's report cards as their own visiting card, while asserting that it is crucial to instill resilience in......
Rattled by a series of demonstrations outside the state party headquarters in Kolkata, West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party president Sukanta Majumdar Friday issued a stern warning saying that......
Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee along with party leaders and workers sat on a dharna at the Rajghat in New Delhi on Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary on Monday demanding the......
A political row erupted in West Bengal after an image of a Class 10 model question paper, asking students to mark "Azad Kashmir" in a map, went viral on social media, with the opposition Bharatiya......
Subhas Chandra Bose was the first prime minister of undivided India, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh claimed Friday while asserting that his contributions were either ignored or undermined after the......
No longer Bengal's finance minister, Amit Mitra, Mamata's principal chief advisor, will still advise and aid the 'chief minister and finance department on all matters relating to management of......
Though industrialists across India might be tripping over themselves to have a photo-op with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, business leaders in Kolkata are being cautious and not making......
Vijay Govindarajan, now a professor who teaches international business at the US-based Tuck School of Business, has a dream that could become a reality soon.He wants even the 'very poor' to have a......
Atal Bihari Vajpayee's biopic Main Atal Hoon reveals the pitfalls of making films on political figures: The maker has to be careful not to offend any followers. It often results in bland......
Where Laal Singh Chaddha succeeds most is heart, notes Sukanya Verma. When Forrest Gump released in 1994, Tom Hanks was 38 years old. One of the coolest things about Robert Zemeckis' Oscar-winning......
'I worked as a cleaner at a store.''I worked as a security guard...''I have slept on footpaths.''I came to Mumbai with great difficulty.''I have not seen better people than I have in the film......
The team of Pradeep Sarkar, Shantanu Moitra and Swanand Kirkire are back. The trio, which brought the feel of the 1950s and 1960s with Parineeta, will be working their magic again in the upcoming......
IMAGE: India's football legend Subhas Bhowmick was part of the 1970 Asian Games bronze winning team. He was also famous for exploits at the club level for East Bengal primarily and Mohun Bagan.......
I am getting scared of people's expectations, says Swapna IMAGE: Swapna Barman won gold medal in women's heptathlon at the Asian Games. Photograph: Issei Kato/Reuters Winning the first ever......
'To be good at the heptathlon takes at least seven years; to compete internationally and win medals takes 10 years.''Swapna became Asia's best heptathlete in just five years!''Nobody would have......
A summary of sports events and persons in the news on Friday. IMAGE: RMV Gurusaidutt staged a grand recovery to make it to the semi-finals. Photograph: Lars Roenboeg/Scanpix Denmark/Reuters......
IMAGE: Swapna Barman of India competes in the high jump in the women's Heptathlon event at the Asian Games last Tuesday. Photograph: Willy Kurniawan/Reuters As she climbed down the steps at......