'There was trust, but perhaps there was also this apprehension that given the supreme post of prime minister, Sonia Gandhi felt her authority may be a challenged.' IMAGE: Pranab Mukherjee makes a......
Bharatiya Janata Party national secretary Anupam Hazra stirred controversy by suggesting that "corrupt" Trinamool Congress leaders apprehending summons by the CBI or ED should contact him to join......
The Supreme Court Thursday set aside an order of a magisterial court in West Bengal for registration of an FIR against Bharatiya Janata Party national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya and two......
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has asked state ministers to begin a sit-in outside Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's residence in Santiniketan in Birbhum district to protest against the......
Amid allegations of "unauthorised occupation" against Nobel laureate Amartya Sen by Visva-Bharati, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday handed over land-related documents to him,......
'I know margins are under pressure, but have banks begin to stoop so low to enhance their floats or slip in strange charges?' asks Keya Sarkar.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com I don't know......
A policy-related problem that urgently needs to be redressed is the ‘miniaturisation’ of projects, notes Ashok K Lahiri. Image: Miniaturisation will not work for industry and......
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that her government would develop seven smart cities in the state. The location for six smart cities had already been finalised, while......
Credit card fraud can be averted, provided you are alert with the amount you last shopped for. Image: Credit card usage has increased multi-fold in India. Photograph: Reuters In the last week of......
In the first-ever initiative for the 'bauls' of rural Bengal, the folk baladeers now come under medical insurance. To honour and support the cause of 'bauls', whose stringed 'ektara' is unique......
Satyajit Ray would have been a hundred years old on May 2.To mark the legendary film-maker's birth centenary, Rediff.com brings you a treasure trove of features from our archives. A lot has been......
Tagore and Victoria Ocampo met during Gurudev's visit to Argentina in 1924, and kept in touch until his death in 1941.Thinking Of Him reveals a little known part of the great writer's life. IMAGE:......
‘Arrow hit hear near the collarbone luckily it's not pierced through the wind pipe’ IMAGE: Archer from Sports Authority of India (Bolpur) had a close shave . Photograph: Video grab A......
It will be Shah Rukh Khan versus Mithun Chakraborty in cricket. A fortnight after the gala launch of King Khan's Kolkata Knight Riders team for the multimillon dollar Indian Premier League, rival......
East Bengal coach Subhas Bhowmick, arrested by CBI sleuths while accepting bribe from a businessman from near a city club, was on Saturday remanded to judicial custody by a CBI special court till......
East Bengal coach Subhas Bhowmick, arrested by CBI sleuths while accepting bribe from a businessman from near a city club, was on Saturday remanded to judicial custody by a CBI special court till......