HC stays Visva-Bharati's move to take part of Amartya Sen's land

Calcutta high court on Thursday gave an interim stay against a move by Visva Bharati to take away a part of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's property Pratichi at Shantiniketan. IMAGE: A 2019......

Amid rebellion in TMC, Shah on two-day visit to Bengal

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will arrive in Kolkata on Friday night on a two-day visit to take stock of the Bharatiya Janata Party's affairs in the state as the assembly elections draw......

The Englishman who was more Indian than Indians

Buried in a Kolkata cemetery is an Englishman who served India well during her struggle for freedom.A close friend of both Gandhi and Tagore, Charles Freer Andrews was more Indian than many Indians......

Ex-diplomat Arundhati Ghose, who led India's opposition to CTBT, dies

Eminent diplomat Arundhati Ghose, who was India’s ambassador to the United Nations and played a decisive role in India’s negotiations on Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, passed......

Meet India's biggest collector of banknotes

Most people know Rezwan Razack as a promoter of Prestige Constructions, a well-known real estate developer in south India. But there's something about Razack that few people know - he is India's......

G8 should scrap farm subsidies: Lord Paul

NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paulsaid on Thursday G8 countries should abolish subsidies to their farmers in order to stop undermining the interests of farmers in developing countries like India.......

Argumentative Amartya

When the Nobel Prize marked its centenary in 2001, the foundation asked a handful of laureates for two mementos each that might be included in an exhibit. "They took away my bicycle, on which I had......

Sir Ratan Tata and Mahatma Gandhi

'In all humility I may say that I have come here also as a friend of the capitalists-- a friend of the Tatas. And here it would be ungrateful on my part, if I do not give you a little anecdote......