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India urges Dhaka not to demolish Satyajit Ray's ancestral home

India on Tuesday called on Bangladesh to reconsider its decision to demolish the ancestral property of noted filmmaker Satyajit Ray and offered help to preserve the iconic building as it symbolises......

Key Sandeshkhali witness injured in accident, son killed

Bholanath Ghosh, one of the prime witnesses in the attack on ED officials in Sandeshkhali and connected Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) cases which implicated now-jailed Trinamool Congress......

How would India become Vishwaguru if...: Sonam Wangchuk's wife

Gitanjali Angmo, the wife of education reformer and activist Sonam Wangchuk and co-founder of the Himalayan Institute of Alternatives Ladakh, on Tuesday alleged that "baseless narratives" were......

Historic first: Indian NGO 'Educate Girls' wins Magsaysay award

'Educate Girls' was founded in 2007 by Safeena Husain, a graduate of the London School of Economics, then working in San Francisco, who decided to return home to India to take on the challenge of......

Prez Murmu visits Odisha harassment victim at AIIMS; principal held

As the health condition of the 20-year-old college student who set herself ablaze following alleged sexual harassment by a professor continued to remain critical, the Odisha Police on Monday......

Can Global Superfood Makhana Survive Trump's Tariff?

'Traders and exporters will have to explore alternative markets.' IMAGE: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi along with Bihar Congress President Rajesh Kumar speaks to farmers in a makhana pond in Katihar,......

Mis-selling of life insurance policies at alarming level: Irdai

The alarming level of life insurance policy misselling has caught the attention of policymakers amid efforts by the insurance regulator to boost insurance penetration, a top official from the......

Zomato gets inspired by Satyajit Ray film

The Gurugram-based company had acquired Lucknow-based drone manufacturer and consultant start-up TechEagle in December, to expand food delivery using drones. In the climax of Satyajit Ray’s......

The Salil Chowdhury You Never Knew

'At a time when there was little awareness of world music, playing western tunes on eastern instruments like the flute and the dholak, blending vocal polyphony with Indian folk and contemporary......

Satyajit Ray Had Warned Us About AI!

Satyajit Ray anticipated the issues we are only now starting to raise, long before large language models, AI chatbots, predictive algorithms, and autonomous systems began to control every bit of......

Why Simi Garewal Went Topless For Siddhartha

'I don't see what the fuss was about.' IMAGE: Simi Garewal with Shashi Kapoor in Siddhartha. Conrad Rooks' adaptation of Herman Hesse's cult novel Siddhartha, which was released in 1972, is best......

Om Puri's Life In Pictures

Om Puri would have been 75 in October. We look back at his early years through these 16 pictures from his life. Photograph: Kind courtesy Nandita Puri Born in Ambala into a family of modest means,......

Chakra Becomes Zubeen Garg's Last Legacy on Screen

'The heavens are intoxicated with his charm now. Zubeen will keep singing in peace.' IMAGE: Zubeen Garg died at 52 in an accident in Singapore on September 19, 2025. Photograph: ANI Photo Victor......

Satyajit Parab rallies Baroda

Baroda amassed 318 runs for the loss of nine wickets in their first innings on Day One of the Ranji Trophy match against Uttar Pradesh in Lucknow on Saturday. Baroda had a bad start as medium pacer......

Satyajit Parab frustrates Delhi

A fine century by Satyajit Parab dashed Delhi's hopes of recording their first outright win in the Ranji Trophy competition this season as their 'Elite' Group 'A' match against Baroda ended in a......

The footballer Satyajit Ray adored

Satyajit Ray's world revolved around Edson Arantes Do Nascimento, better known to millions of football fanatics as Pele."It was not possible to watch a match on television during Baba's (Ray's)......