TMC, BJP spar over 'saffron flags' at Messi event

The Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday traded charges as chaos ruled supreme at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata during a Lionel Messi event, which saw spectators......

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......

Girl kidnapped from posh Salt Lake area

A girl in her early twenties was abducted by four men from the posh Salt Lake area of Kolkata on Friday morning.Rama Jhawar (21) is the daughter of a businessman and studies at the G D Birla......

Chaos at Messi's Kolkata event sparks political slugfest

Both ruling Trinamool Congress and opposition Bharatiya Janata Party lashed out at the organisers of an event featuring Lionel Messi in Salt Lake stadium on Saturday, which ended in chaos as irate......

PwC to build new unit at Salt Lake

PricewaterhouseCoopers would set up a training centre for accounting services in Kolkata at its new campus near Wipro.The centre would service offshore accounting jobs.This venture would mark the......

How illegal salt making threatens Sambhar Lake's ecology

The number of tractors in Nawa, a small town on the banks of Sambhar Lake in Rajasthan, falls a little short of the number of people living here. Even the sweltering heat of April does not......

Pather Panchali@70: Beautiful, Broken People

Seventy years after Pather Panchali released on August 26, 1955, we finally get it.Shuttling between the village of Boral and a studio in Calcutta, caught between worrying about the next purse of......

Why Messi left in 22 mins: Inside Kolkata's event failure

IMAGE:  Argentine footballer Lionel Messi waves, at Salt Lake Stadium during his G.O.A.T India Tour 2025, in Kolkata on Saturday. Photograph: ANI Photo What should have been a landmark......

Mamata apologises to Messi, fans after chaos at Kolkata event; orders probe

Stating that she was shocked and deeply disturbed by the 'mismanagement' at the Lionel Messi event in Kolkata, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday announced the constitution of a high-level......

Messi's Brief Visit Sparks Chaos At Kolkata Stadium

IMAGE: Angry fans hurled bottles and damaged fibreglass seats, forcing the police to intervene as they struggled to bring the situation under control at the Salt Lake Stadium on Saturday.......

Messi event organiser detained in Kolkata over chaos

IMAGE:  The GOAT India Tour 2025, promoted by Satadru Dutta. Photograph: Satadru Dutt/Instagram The police in Kolkata have arrested the organiser of the event surrounding Argentine footballer......

'Cancelled our honeymoon to see Messi'

Video: ANI It was a mega fan frenzy in Kolkata as thousands turned up to catch a glimpse of Argentine superstar Lionel Messi, who arrived in the city in the early hours on Saturday. IMAGE: Fans......