The General marching into Battleground Bengal

After spending 40 years in the Indian Army, Lieutenant General Subrata Saha (retd) marches into the electoral battlefield as the BJP candidate from Rashbehari. IMAGE: Lieutenant General Subrata......

BJP fields poster boy for 'Make in India' in defence in WB

The army's poster boy for the "Make in India" initiative, Lt General Subrata Saha (retired), has been fielded by the Bharatiya Janata Party from Rashbehari assembly constituency in West Bengal.......

72 dead as Super Cyclone Amphan devastates West Bengal

The fiercest cyclone to hit Bengal in 100 yrs destroyed mud houses and crops, and uprooted trees and electric poles.Windows buckled from the pressure of the storm, cars floated on water-logged......

'It seems there was a war': Cyclone Amphan overwhelms Bengal

Amphan was the fiercest Cyclone to hit West Bengal in the last 100 years.A large part of the state was without power as electricity poles have been blown away.Mobile and internet services were also......

Post offices in a brave new world

'He was asked to do the KYC again because the earlier exercise would not do as they were 'computerising.''Getting the records transferred to the reluctant computer would take time and so he was......

Cloudy future for Kolkata's great roadside tea

Just as unregulated unauthorised hawkers and their shops can kill a city, some space needs to be carved out for distinctive affordable street food, says Shubir Roy. At Rs 5 per small glass of tea......

Movie halls prepare for a post lockdown world

''We have to scale down our theatre's seating capacity by tweaking the arrangement of seats.''We have to stop screening back-to-back shows to ensure that people do not bump into one another.'......