Will win Bengal with one leg, Delhi with two: Mamata

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday asserted that she would win the ongoing state polls despite injury and eventually aim for power in Delhi.   IMAGE: West......

Modi biggest dangabaaz in the country: Mamata

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday lambasted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, branding him as the "biggest rioter", who will meet a fate "even worse" than that of former US......

20 years later: India's privatisation story off to 'Maharaja' start

After a hiatus of nearly two decades, the government's CPSE privatisation programme started off with flying colours with Tata group buying the debt-laden national carrier Air India. Illustration:......

With Air India will Pawan Ruia prove to be India's 'turnaround tycoon'?

Pawan Ruia’s Air India bid is another example of faith in his own abilities. Ishita Ayan Dutt reports. Pawan Ruia has finally done it, a beaming Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, then West Bengal......

Pawan Ruia throws hat into the ring to buy out Air India

Ruia, a chartered accountant whose business ranged from sugar to textiles and heavy engineering to tyres, refused to comment on queries about his interest in Air India. Illustration: Dominic......

How the Communists killed Bengal's industry

West Bengal's longest serving chief minister Jyoti Basu once told an industrialist that capitalists were class enemies and he should expect no sympathy.Ishita Ayan Dutt tracks the political......

PIX: Ashwin takes 500 but Duckett steals the show

Images from Day 2 of the third Test between India and England at the Niranjan Shah Stadium in Rajkot on Friday. Scorecard IMAGE: Ben Duckett celebrates after completing his century on Day 2 of......

PHOTOS: Blistering Bairstow blasts England to victory over NZ

Images from Day 5 of the second Test between England and New Zealand at Trent Bridge in Nottingham on Tuesday. Scorecard IMAGE: England batsman Jonny Bairstow celebrates his century. Photograph:......

EXPOSED! FIFA scandal stinks up the Caribbean

‘There is a Jack Warner or two in every Caribbean parliament today’ Activists from advocacy group Avaaz demonstrate near the Hallenstadion, in Zurich. Photograph: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters......

Milestones to Test match #2000

As India and England prepare to square off in the first Test of the four-match series at Lord's, Rajneesh Gupta presents the many landmarks on the road to the 2000th match of cricket's longest......

Plethora of records for Lara

On the third day of the Multan Test, Brian Lara achieved the rare feat of scoring a hundred before lunch. Lara has now performed this feat on two separate occasions. The other such occasion for......