Kolkata, Days before deciding on withdrawing support to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government, top Communist leaders Saturday turned to one of their core constituencies - West Bengal - meeting their comrades and addressing them on the India-US nucl
Kolkata, The paralysis suffered by a 16-year-old girl after she was rebuked by a judge during a reality dance show has evoked shock and anger among people here who are upset over the manner in which youngsters are under increasing pressure to perform at t
The IPL hangover continues and so it shall for some time to come. While the news for many of top performers is great as some find a place in the national side soon after the seven-week jamboree, the bigger question is who has made money and who did not.(c
Kolkata, A team of city-based intellectuals under the banner of NGO Swajan, who Saturday afternoon set out for Nandigram in East Midnapore district to monitor Sunday’s panchayat polls, was forced by the police to return to Kolkata. (contd...)
New Delhi/Kolkata, Thousands queued up since morning in Kolkata for tickets for the Moitree (Friendship) Express that begins its run Monday, the Bengali New Year s Day, as India and Bangladesh resume a passenger train service after a hiatus of over four d
Kolkata, Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, confined for nearly four months to a safe house, finally left India Wednesday for medical treatment abroad. Magsaysay winning social activist Mahasweta Devi dubbed her departure as "shame" for India. (contd..
“I could not endure it anymore,” Nasreen said from her undisclosed location where she has been given shelter by the Indian Government following violent protests against her in Kolkata last year. (contd...)
