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PHOTOS: Celebrations outside Amma's, Didi's residences

IMAGE: Workers smear green colour on the poster carrying the photo of Mamata Banerjee. Photograph: PTI IMAGE: AIADMK supporters offer tributes to a statue of party founder M G Ramachandra......

'I get to see my wife only twice or thrice a year'

In a special series, Rediff.com looks at India through the lives of her people. Today: Tapeshwar Ram, who has hand-pulled a rickshaw on the streets of Kolkata for 30 years. He works 7 days a week......

Didi's vote share surges at the expense of Left

IMAGE: Trinamool Congress supporters celebrate the party's victory in 2016 assembly polls on Thursday. Photograph: Abhiroop Dey Sarkar Contesting on its own, the Trinamool Congress on Thursday put......

Mamata Banerjee sworn in as West Bengal CM for second time

Mamata Banerjee was on Friday sworn in as the chief minister of West Bengal for the second consecutive time, heading a 42-member ministry. Banerjee, 61, was administered oath of office and secrecy......

22 killed, several trapped after under-construction flyover collapses in Kolkata

At least 22 people were killed, over 60 injured and many others trapped as a section of an under- construction flyover on Thursday collapsed on a congested road intersection in Kolkata, an accident......

Budget: What's costlier, what's cheaper?

Cigarettes, phone calls, eating out, branded garments and accessories, air travel are going to be more expensive post Budget. Image: A man clad in branded clothes, wearing a branded watch, poses......

Welcome to India's biggest junkyard mela

Images from the Bhanga Mela, India's only e-waste market.Text and photographs: Abhiroop Dey Sarkar For centuries Mandir bazaar, a nondescript locality about 80 kilometres south of Kolkata, has been......

More foreign flights on Kolkata airport radar

Kolkata airport authorities are in talks with several foreign airlines for the commencement of their services, a senior official of the Airport Authority of India said on Wednesday. "We are in......

Be prepared to pay higher air fare, govt may levy 2% cess

Fliers may have to shell out more with the government mulling to impose a two per cent cess on air tickets as part of the new civil aviation policy, which is in the advanced stage of finalisation.......

How Kolkata trams are getting a new lease of life

Reopening of closed tram routes is on top of the mind of the authorities Colonial-era charm of trams is being revisited in the city with air-conditioned tram cars being lined up and closed routes......

This Indian footballer left Pele awestruck...

IMAGE: 'As a club, we had the privilege of hosting the King of Football in 1977, at Eden Gardens — a memory we will always cherish,' ATK Mohun Bagan said on Instagram paying tribute to......

When Pelemania Gripped India

The enormous structured global advertising machinery that surrounds every football game on the planet today?Pele was perhaps single-handedly responsible for all of it.By just being brilliant,......

In my team I would love to have both Messi and Ronaldo: Pele

IMAGE: Football legend Pele waves to fans in Kolkata. Photograph: Abhiroop Dey Sarkar Football legend Pele has termed Argentine forward Lionel Messi as the "best in last 10......

Pele returns to rousing welcome in Kolkata

IMAGE: Pele waves to fans after his arrival at the Netaji Airport in Kolkata. Photograph: Abhiroop Dey Sarkar Frenzied scenes were witnessed at the airport this morning when......

FLASHBACK: BEST Sports Photos of the Year-Part 2

In the second of our three-part special, Rediff.com takes you back in time through captivating photographs that marked the big moments on the playing field. From a bloodied face of Spanish club......