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Kolkata, Howrah turn warzone as BJP march to secretariat turns violent

Parts of Kolkata and Howrah district turned into a battlefield on Tuesday as Bharatiya Janata Party supporters clashed with the police while trying to get past barricades erected to prevent them......

Mamata very close to me: Ganguly after hosting Shah

A day after Union Home Minister Amit Shah paid a visit to his residence and had dinner with his family, which grabbed attention, Board of Control for Cricket in India president Sourav Ganguly......

RS MPs sing, play guitar at colleagues' farewell

Parliamentarians on Thursday showcased their talent by singing movie and patriotic songs and playing the guitar at a cultural evening to honour retiring Rajya Sabha members. IMAGE: Prime Minister......

Antony, Chidambaram, Swamy, Raut among 72 retiring RS members

Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday said legislators across the country should be driven by passion, performance and procedural integrity, and desist from disrupting law-making......

Why RSS-BJP Have Abandoned West Bengal

'The RSS-BJP fight against TMC excesses seem to have been limited to fighting the assembly poll, not coming to the defence of ordinary Bengalis who are being crushed daily by Trinamool goons,'......

Sitharaman delivers 2.17 hr-long Budget speech, earns praises

Nirmala Sitharaman, the country's first full-time woman finance minister, on Friday delivered one of the longest Budget speeches which was peppered with Urdu, Hindi and Tamil couplets. IMAGE:......

When Modi thumped the desk once too often

The prime minister was often seen vigorously thumping the desk, prompting his Cabinet colleagues and NDA MPs to follow suit. Image: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Rajnath......

An SC verdict that rattled India's high and mighty

The spectre of Singur and now its verdict is looming large on the future of many of Bengal’s projects, especially the state government’s industrial parks that are vacant. As many more......

'Now, I am reduced to nothing'

'I have tutored my family and myself to fight hunger,' the former agent for the Saradha chit fund says, his eyes welling up. 96 of the 107 cases referred to the Serious Fraud Investigation Office......

'After divorce, I shut myself in my flat for 3 years'

'Then, one fine morning, I returned to my first love.''All the top directors of the time were waiting for me.''In one day, I signed 12 films.''Prosenjit Chatterjee was back!' Photograph: Kind......

Ganguly to be discharged from hospital on Wednesday

IMAGE: BCCI president Sourav Ganguly. Photograph: BCCI The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly will be discharged, on Wednesday, and thereafter he will......

Olympian Mary Kom is now Rajya Sabha MP!

IMAGE: Olympian boxer MC Mary Kom during the oath-taking ceremony in New Delhi on Tuesday. Photograph: ANI/Twitter It was a moment of pride for Olympian boxer MC Mary Kom as she took oath as a......

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