At least 10 people were killed, nine of them due to electrocution, as torrential overnight rain -- among the heaviest in four decades -- left Kolkata and adjoining districts paralysed on Tuesday,......
The 89-year-old leader was expelled by the CPI-M after he refused to step down from his position as Speaker holding that the post is above any party politics. IMAGE: Then President APJ Abdul Kalam......
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said she respects the judiciary but disagrees with the Supreme Court's verdict on school appointments "on humanitarian grounds" and dared the......
Communist veteran and former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee passed away at a private hospital in Kolkata on Monday following multiple organ failure. He was 89. IMAGE: The former Speaker had......
'He had decided to give his body for medical research.''I read that his skin was given to a burn victim that very night.''He would have been thrilled.' Shashwata Chatterjee on his wedding day with......
IMAGE: Basu Chatterjee. Photograph: Kind courtesy Madhur Bhandarkar/Instagram Basu Chatterjee, known for films like Chhoti Si Baat and Rajnigandha, died on Thursday. He was 93. Basuda died in his......
'I always felt that Basu Chatterjee was a kind, gentle, man who truly believed that in directing films like Chhoti Si Baat, he was impacting our lives,' remembers Aseem Chhabra.'He seemed to be on......
'Songs are a commercial compromise.''I had to invent tricks to fit songs into my films.' IMAGE: Jaya Bachchan and Anil Dhawan in the song Yeh Jeevan Hai from Basu Chatterjee's Piya Ka Ghar. Basu......
'Basuda welcomed viewers into a world that was instantly familiar and comfortable,' observes Sukanya Verma. Basu Chatterjee didn't just make movies for us. He made movies about us. I saw life in......
'It is wrong to say he turned director to create starring opportunities for himself. He was happy with what he had.' IMAGE: Zarina Wahab and Asrani in Salaam Memsaab. Not many know that Asrani was......
IMAGE: In what was a dark day for Indian football, on August 16, 1980, 16 people were killed in a stampede and riot inside the Eden Gardens during a Mohun Bagan and East Bengal during a Calcutta......