Kolkata gangrape: Accused, aides boozed, dined after crime, say police

Monojit Mishra, prime accused in the gangrape of a student at South Calcutta Law College, along with his accomplices spent considerable time drinking liquor inside the institute's guard room after......

Eliminate online betting, gambling apps, YSRCP MP urges govt

A strong demand was made in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday to eliminate online betting and gambling applications that keep mushrooming under new names to bypass government controls. IMAGE: YSR......

Kolkata turns off lights to protest against RG Kar incident

Kolkata experienced a unique and powerful display of civic solidarity when residents turned off their lights for an hour from 9 pm on Wednesday and came down to the streets with burning candles to......

BJP fields poster boy for 'Make in India' in defence in WB

The army's poster boy for the "Make in India" initiative, Lt General Subrata Saha (retired), has been fielded by the Bharatiya Janata Party from Rashbehari assembly constituency in West Bengal.......

Cloudy future for Kolkata's great roadside tea

Just as unregulated unauthorised hawkers and their shops can kill a city, some space needs to be carved out for distinctive affordable street food, says Shubir Roy. At Rs 5 per small glass of tea......

Post offices in a brave new world

'He was asked to do the KYC again because the earlier exercise would not do as they were 'computerising.''Getting the records transferred to the reluctant computer would take time and so he was......

Movie halls prepare for a post lockdown world

''We have to scale down our theatre's seating capacity by tweaking the arrangement of seats.''We have to stop screening back-to-back shows to ensure that people do not bump into one another.'......