A Kolkata court on Wednesday rejected the bail application of former Calcutta Stock Exchange president Kamal Parekh and remanded him in judicial custody till July 7.
Shiv Kapur fired a near-perfect round of 7-under 65 to take a one-stroke lead in the opening round of the RCGC Open.
'He felt that he had no place in the BJP and he was wrong.'
"In today's context, we have not done well. I would like to still encourage the bowlers saying that they have slowed the process a little bit. We need to take 20 wickets and that's for sure," he added.
Mohammedan Sporting have opted against playing in the second division of the I-League and also pulled out of the Durand Cup football tournament, beginning October 28, apparently due to financial crisis.
'Neither the Centre nor the state is helping us, rather they are coming up with new ways to create stumbling blocks for the return of money.'
The bench directed all the courts, tribunal and commissions across the country not to consider and act on the orders passed by him after February 8.
In a blow to the prestige of the saffron brigade, Bharatiya Janata Party's national vice president Mukul Roy along with son Subhranshu, rejoined the Trinamool Congress on Friday, with Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and other leaders of the state's ruling party welcoming the prodigal back to the fold.
He will have to surrender before the court by the end of 14 days.
Kolkata-born British author Neel Mukherjee's latest novel The Lives of Others, set in troubled Bengal of the 1960s and centres around a dysfunctional family, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize 2014, in its debut as a global literary award.
Playing down the hype over the potentially high-voltage India-Pakistan World T20 match to be played in Kolkata on March 19, India's World Cup winner Gautam Gambhir said that the team's focus should be on winning the title.
Shifting positions on religiosity and Covid may confuse the Hindutva citizenry, but you can rely on Bengal to turn a non-arguable issue into a raging controversy, notes Kanika Datta.
After meeting with the injured at the Kolkata Medical College, Gandhi described it as a great tragedy and urged the people to provide necessary support to them.
The father of the 16-year-old gang-rape victim, who died of burns after she was allegedly set ablaze, on Monday filed a petition before the Calcutta high court seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the incident.
'If the Modi government doesn't act now, it will demoralise and hurt the people who voted in hope of a better times,' argues former BJP MP Tarun Vijay.
'He never went to the Bombay industry.'
While Calcutta has transitioned to Kolkata, Satyajit Ray's detective, Feluda, has remained unchanged in the Bengali consciousness
'His relationship with Sridevi was not meant to work out, especially since both of them were ambitious, driven and passionate.'
'I'll keep painting as long as I'm alive,' Madhvi Parekh, one of India's most influential painters, tells Rajendran Pottayil in New York.
Indian bridge contingent continue to be the victims of the official apathy from the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), who are yet to provide them with team blazers.
A former India international, who won the SAFF Cup in his debut season in 1997, Jamil had been at the helm of Mumbai FC for seven seasons but his moment of glory came when he guided Aizawl FC to their maiden I-League title in a path-breaking last season.
The Japanese steamship Komagata Maru, carrying 376 immigrants, mostly Sikhs, from India was denied entry by the Canadian government in May 1914 and was forced to return to India.
Changing the names of Uttar Pradesh cities has accelerated into a movement ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha election, notes Ranjita Ganesan.
Rajneesh Gupta lists some amazing coincidences in cricket -- a feature guaranteed to amuse you in these anxious times.
The 61-year-old has proved to be as elusive as he has been brash, defying the Supreme Court and passing his own judgments against his peers.
Then chief minister Jyoti Basu once told an industrialist that capitalists were class enemies and he should expect no sympathy.
The BJP's message is that the past must be reinvented as creatively as imagination allows, states Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
Judge Uttam Kumar Nandy granted the former state transport minister bail on two sureties of Rs 15 lakh each.
The trendsetters at Lakme Fashion Week reveal what fashion means to them.
Not much is heard or read about Sun Pharma's media-shy owner.
Indian coffee shops market over the next four-five years will grow between 6 and 18 per cent CAGR, all due to the growing coffee culture among the youth, increasing urbanisation, rising disposable income levels and changing eating and drinking preferences, says Atanu Biswas.
'Our priority cannot be better cities. Since real change is not possible, we must satisfy ourselves with a change in name,' says Aakar Patel.
City mayor Sovan Chatterjee, who visited the market, said the fire was controlled to some extent, but refused to comment on how long it would take to extinguish the blaze completely.
The South Asian nations could script a new history of cooperation and prosperity that could serve as an example for other nations, notes Dr Rahul Mishra.
Justice Karnan claimed that the seven judges of the bench have insulted him 'wantonly and deliberately and with mala fide intention'.
'The phone rang on the night of January 15.' 'The voice of an Indian family friend in Venezuela came on.' 'That morning, there had been an accident on the highway'. 'My father had died on the spot.' Radha Roy Biswas reveals her heart-warming and heart-breaking relation with a country drowning in economic chaos.
Changing a state's name requires constitutional amendment and it is done after taking into consideration all relevant factors, he said.
Police have detained a total of 10 persons in connection with the alleged gang rape of an elderly nun and loot at a convent school in West Bengal's Nadia district.
