Former Board of Control for Cricket in India president Biswanath Dutt, best known in Indian cricket fraternity as Jagmohan Dalmiya's mentor, passed away on Monday after suffering from acute lung infection.
Jayanta Roy Chowdhury reports on how the West Bengal elections are being fought by the BJP and Trinalool Congress amid COVID challenges, 'Bangaliana', and campaigns based on religion, region, and caste.
The Calcutta Stock Exchange inaugurated a book on capital markets -- Taking Stock -- in Braille.
A cooperative in Kolkata shows the way for urban sewage management.
Hasty, ill-conceived steps show how isolated Mamata Banerjee had been from the national political trend. A fascinating excerpt from Sugato Hazra's Losing The Plot: Political Isolation Of West Bengal.
The team comprises officials of Kolkata police, including a director general of police rank officer, Chennai police sources said, adding the whereabouts of Justice Karnan were not known.
Justice Karnan passed a 'suo motu judicial order in the interest of the nation to protect the general public from corruption and unrest'.
Delhi was once a provincial town and small commercial centre, but one decision changed its destiny forever.
Taking up a plea for contempt proceedings against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for allegedly making derogatory remarks about judiciary, the Calcutta high court on Thursday directed two newspapers and two channels to file affidavits on the authenticity of their reports on her speech.
Justice Karnan told the doctors that for holding such a medical examination, guardian's consent is required.
In a tweet, Ganguly said the law should take its own course.
The passing of Satyajit Ray's renaissance man feels like the snapping of the last connection with a generation that built a nation and defined grace while facing everything life had to throw at them, says Sumit Bhattacharya.
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the Calcutta high court order which had banned the entry of devotees into the sanctum sanctorum of the famed Kalighat temple in Kolkata.
'Buddhada became such a confidante, friend, philosopher and guide in my life.'
In a setback to the Mamata Banerjee government, Calcutta High Court had ruled on June 23 that the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011, introduced by her government to recover land leased to Tata Motors in Singur for its small car project was constitutionally invalid and void.
Trinamool Congress leadership is yet to take a call on ghar wapsi (return home) by former TMC leaders who had joined the BJP ahead of the recently concluded assembly elections which the Mamata Banerjee-led party swept.
India's number one player Prajnesh Gunneswaran, who achieved career-high 102 ranking this week, has been drawn against 22-year-old debutant Matteo Berrettini in the second singles rubber at the Calcutta South Club grass courts.
Chawrasia in home quarantine; South African Grace tests positive at Barracuda Championship
Mumbai stock broker Ketan Parekh, in custody for about four weeks now, is planning to move the Supreme Court next week for bail after his prayer was rejected by the Calcutta high court.
'But India needs to remember Dr Roy, the multifaceted genius who excelled as a physician and was most loved as a leader,' notes Dr Sudhir Bisht.
Air India's debt burden is estimated to be more than Rs 50,000 crore, besides huge accumulated losses.
He, however, asserted that all infiltrators will be thrown out of the country.
This is an alternate list of 10 screen roles that saw Soumitra Chatterjee, a paragon of gentility, venture beyond his comfort zone and deliver masterclasses of subtlety and depth, lists Saibal Chatterjee.
AIFF president P R Dasmunshi said the fixtures would be finalized at the executive committee meeting on December 17.
If you do not know much about Kasimbazar, I would not hold it against you; after all it has a population of only 10,000 and lies in one of the most neglected corners of the state of West Bengal.
A British merchant ship, which set sail from Calcutta (Kolkata) in December 1940 but was sunk by a German U-boat before she could reach home with her cargo of 70 lakh ounces of silver (1 ounce = 28.3495231 gm) among other things, has been discovered.
In January 1994, the Calcutta high court had sentenced him to be hanged until death for raping and then murdering teenager Hetal Parekh on March 5, 1990 in Kolkata's Bhawanipur area.
In controversial comments, Abhishek Banerjee, Trinamool Congress member of Parliament and nephew of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, referred Jadavpur University protestors as "drug addicts" questioning whether the student protests in Jadavpur University were because of a ban on drugs and liquor inside the campus.
A roundup of the Vijay Hazare Trophy one-day matches played on Tuesday.
The Rabindranath Tagore Centre for Human Development Studies invites applications for five post-doctoral fellowships.
The suave actor of the world, sometimes called the last of the Mohicans and familiar to students of cinema anywhere in the globe, acted in 14 Ray films and over 300 others, gracefully transitioning into commercial cinema in a variety of roles.
Raj Kumar Sharma and Manmohan Menani, directors of Barrel Trading and Investment Company in Kolkata, were arrested in connection with the Rs 120 crore scam at the Calcutta Stock Exchange in March, 2001, the police said.
Coca-Cola's sports-loving CEO on the strategy that has helped him steer the soft drinks giant out of various crises.
Banerjee joins the list of Indians and people of Indian origin who have received the prestigious Nobel prize in fields like Physics, Chemistry, Peace, Economic Sciences and Medicine.
