I will be 'kingmaker' after Bengal polls, claims TMC rebel MLA Kabir

Suspended Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir on Tuesday asserted that he would emerge a "kingmaker" after the 2026 assembly elections in West Bengal, asserting that no government could be formed......

After Babri-style mosque, Ayodhya-style Ram Mandir proposed in Bengal

In a sharp escalation of Bengal's temple-mosque political duel ahead of the assembly polls, posters appeared across Salt Lake on Thursday announcing plans for an Ayodhya-style Ram temple complex on......

'Drishyam model' murder in Kerala: Bengal man held for killing wife

The police arrested a West Bengal native for allegedly murdering his wife and burying her body near an under-construction house at Ayarkunnam in Kottayam, officials said on Sunday. IMAGE: Kindly......

HC refuses to stay foundation-laying of 'Babri Masjid' in Bengal

The Calcutta high court on Friday refused to intervene in the construction of a mosque -- modelled on Ayodhya's Babri Masjid -- at Beldanga in West Bengal's Murshidabad, proposed by suspended......

Let the Bengal model shine

There is now a new ray of hope for public sector reforms in this country. CPI-M General Secretary Prakash Karat has made a public statement that essentially gives the Manmohan Singh government the......

JSW breaks ground for 1,600 Mw power plant in West Bengal

The $24 billion JSW Group on Monday kicked off a 1,600 megawatt (Mw) power plant at Salboni in Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal — a project that had been waiting in the wings for......

Flipkart's Shopsy intensifies efforts to tap into Bharat

Flipkart’s hyper-value e-commerce platform Shopsy is intensifying efforts to tap over half of the 821 million internet users (about 442 million) in rural India. These efforts are being led......

JSW to develop 900 MW hydel, rolling mill projects in Bengal

The JSW Group has expressed interest to develop a 900 MW pumped storage hydel power project and a state of the art rolling shop for steel in West Bengal, company chairman Sajjan Jindal said on......

Satyajit Ray Had Warned Us About AI!

Satyajit Ray anticipated the issues we are only now starting to raise, long before large language models, AI chatbots, predictive algorithms, and autonomous systems began to control every bit of......

'Love Marriage Was Taboo'

'I have always looked at people and said, 'You just have to accept. You just have to love. You just have to let this person be and the trouble would be less'.''But we keep complicating things, and......

'I Wanted Waheeda Rehman For Ankur'

'I don't think Waheeda had the confidence that I could pull it off, so she said no.' IMAGE: Shabana Azmi in Ankur. Shyam Benegal started his film career with the brilliant Ankur. The 1974 film not......

'Indian football should look at Uzbekistan, Jordan'

'Even with modest leagues, they have structure, they produce players, and they qualify for big tournaments. India need to study those models and not just corporatise or commercialise football.'......

'Unless Vaibhav Faces Success And Failure, He Won't Be A Great Player'

'He has to face both aspects of life to mature as a cricketer.' IMAGE: Vaibhav Suryavanshi, 14, is the youngest ever to hit a century in the IPL and overall in T20 cricket. Photograph: BCCI Manish......