Bengal BJP chief warns protesting party members

Rattled by a series of demonstrations outside the state party headquarters in Kolkata, West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party president Sukanta Majumdar Friday issued a stern warning saying that......

Abhishek Banerjee leads TMC protest at Rajghat

Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee along with party leaders and workers sat on a dharna at the Rajghat in New Delhi on Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary on Monday demanding the......

Row over 'Azad Kashmir' question in Bengal school paper

A political row erupted in West Bengal after an image of a Class 10 model question paper, asking students to mark "Azad Kashmir" in a map, went viral on social media, with the opposition Bharatiya......

Subhas Chandra Bose was 1st PM of undivided India: Rajnath Singh

Subhas Chandra Bose was the first prime minister of undivided India, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh claimed Friday while asserting that his contributions were either ignored or undermined after the......

Why some Bengal industrialists are avoiding Modi

Though industrialists across India might be tripping over themselves to have a photo-op with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, business leaders in Kolkata are being cautious and not making......

Indian professor in US plans $300 house for the poor

Vijay Govindarajan, now a professor who teaches international business at the US-based Tuck School of Business, has a dream that could become a reality soon.He wants even the 'very poor' to have a......

Laal Singh Chaddha Review

Where Laal Singh Chaddha succeeds most is heart, notes Sukanya Verma. When Forrest Gump released in 1994, Tom Hanks was 38 years old. One of the coolest things about Robert Zemeckis' Oscar-winning......

'There is no job I haven't done'

'I worked as a cleaner at a store.''I worked as a security guard...''I have slept on footpaths.''I came to Mumbai with great difficulty.''I have not seen better people than I have in the film......

'Laaga has perky but dark music'

The team of Pradeep Sarkar, Shantanu Moitra and Swanand Kirkire are back. The trio, which brought the feel of the 1950s and 1960s with Parineeta, will be working their magic again in the upcoming......

RIP Subhas Bhowmick: The 'Jose Mourinho' of Kolkata Maidan

IMAGE: India's football legend Subhas Bhowmick was part of the 1970 Asian Games bronze winning team. He was also famous for exploits at the club level for East Bengal primarily and Mohun Bagan.......

After Asiads, her life has changed but she has not changed...

I am getting scared of people's expectations, says Swapna IMAGE: Swapna Barman won gold medal in women's heptathlon at the Asian Games. Photograph: Issei Kato/Reuters Winning the first ever......

How Swapna Barman became the toast of Asia

'To be good at the heptathlon takes at least seven years; to compete internationally and win medals takes 10 years.''Swapna became Asia's best heptathlete in just five years!''Nobody would have......

Sports Shorts: Sameer, Gurusaidutt to meet in Hyderabad Open semis

A summary of sports events and persons in the news on Friday. IMAGE: RMV Gurusaidutt staged a grand recovery to make it to the semi-finals. Photograph: Lars Roenboeg/Scanpix Denmark/Reuters......

The alchemist behind India's heptathlon gold

  IMAGE: Swapna Barman of India competes in the high jump in the women's Heptathlon event at the Asian Games last Tuesday. Photograph: Willy Kurniawan/Reuters As she climbed down the steps at......