Finding a cure for Motor Neurone Disease is a priority for legendary British and Irish Lions Dean Richards and Finlay Calder ...

Renowned Bengali singer and lyricist Pratul Mukhopadhyay passed away while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Kolkata in India on Saturday.

What did Raja Ravi Varma paint as a child? How did Meera Mukherjee become a sculptor? New volumes are letting readers in on ...

Matein Khalid V.S. Naipaul once said that ancestral memories are like“trap doors to a bottomless past”. This was my first thought when I ...

With dwindling attention spans and addictive social media posts, should the garden-variety reader commit to a novel of over ...

The border town of Raxaul inaugurated its railway station on 1 March 1899. Once Raxaul was connected, it became easier for ...

On this day, liberal politician William Ewart raised in the British Parliament the matter of local legislative councils in ...

The author’s attention to detail — she chronicles the Bengalis’ love for peyaj kolir chochchori, keema cooked in cinnamon and ...

Kolkata’s yellow taxis are among its most loved and recognisable icons, but they are declining in numbers. Read more at ...

The ministry of civil aviation has prioritised Kolkata airport in a major push to enhance international air connectivity, facilitating better access to Europe and Asia.

Amitav Ghosh’s new collection of non-fiction, ‘Wild Fictions’, is a jumble of bewilderingly disparate pieces, marred by ...

Fin Smith has Scottish connections everywhere he looks – but that will not stop England’s fly-half plotting the Calcutta Cup ...