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Siddhartha Ray recalls Basu memories

Age is a complex thing. It does strange things to your mind. As you gradually start losing your contemporaries, you start dwelling in the past. On Monday evening, former West Bengal chief minister......

Let deserving teachers keep their jobs, Bengal board urges SC

The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) moved the Supreme Court on Monday seeking 'modification' in its order annulling over 25,000 jobs in schools last week, a high-level source in......

Former Bengal CM Siddhartha Shankar Ray dead

Former West Bengal chief minister Siddhartha Shankar Ray on Saturday night died at his south Kolkata residence after a protracted illness. He was 90 and survived by his wife Maya Ray. "Ray was......

Mamata, nephew call HC order on school jobs 'fixed', 'BJP ploy'

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday termed the cancellation of over 25,000 school jobs as 'gross injustice' and alleged that it was a ploy by the Bharatiya Janata Party to stop......

West Bengal: Is the Left on its deathbed?

The combined Left parties drew a blank in the polls to the assembly which they had run with an overwhelming majority for 34 long years, with their vote share dwindling to a mere 5.47 per cent in......

Quiz master plans media school

Siddhartha Basu, best known for his Mastermind quiz programme on BBC World, is looking at options to set up a world class media training centre offering advanced professional courses."The project......

A quizmaster and an entrepreneur

One was a journalist, the other was trying to make a career out of theatre and quizzing. They ended up as entrepreneurs who redefined television viewing in India. Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez......

Small screen, big buyouts

Anil Ambani's Adlabs buys a controlling stake in Siddhartha Basu's television production company Synergy Communications. Other than Mastermind for BBC, Synergy has producedKaun Banega Crorepati......

Adlabs Films to buy Synergy Comm pie

Anil Ambani-controlled entertainment company Adlabs Films Ltd said on Thursday it will acquire a majority stake in Synergy Communications Pvt Ltd. Adlabs Films informed the Bombay Stock Exchange......

How the Communists killed Bengal's industry

West Bengal's longest serving chief minister Jyoti Basu once told an industrialist that capitalists were class enemies and he should expect no sympathy.Ishita Ayan Dutt tracks the political......

The Mehta Boys Review: Sparkles In Moments

As it meanders along The Mehta Boys can't decide what it wants to be -- a comedy, an emotional family drama or just a slice of life in the city, observes Deepa Gahlot. More often than not, when an......

It's the KBC time of the year again

'There is the greatest pride in the achieving of the contestant... And the happiness that the few hours at the hot seat brings for them.' Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has started shooting for the......

'Nitin Desai was the best at what he did'

IMAGE: Nitin Chandrakant Desai, right, with Hema Malini. Photograph: Kind courtesy Hema Malini/Twitter Film personalities on Wednesday condoled the demise of celebrated art director Nitin Desai,......

Ready to play KBC with Amitabh again?

Are you ready for the return of Kaun Banega Crorepati? Television’s biggest game show returns with its 11th season on Sony Entertainment Television on August 19. The theme this season,......

Salman Khan mocks Internet trolls

'When guys with one, two, three, four followers troll, it isn't trolling.' Photograph: Pradeep Bandekar Superstar Salman Khan, reacting to the Twitter backlash against the trailer of Race 3, says......