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Mamata renews Opposition unity call for 2024 victory

Mamata renews Opposition unity call for 2024 victory

The Trinamul Congress supremo asserted that a united opposition can come to power at the Centre in 2024

2 May 2023 6:27 PM IST

Shreya Sen-Handley | What does home mean to you?

Shreya Sen-Handley | What does home mean to you?

Little House on The Prairie’s Laura Ingalls Wilder had pronounced ‘home’ to be “the nicest word...

23 April 2023 12:05 AM IST

Ranjona Banerji | When we are exceptional but our nostalgia is trivial

Ranjona Banerji | When we are exceptional' but our nostalgia is...

Where are you from? Depending on context, this can be an extremely racist and painful remark. If you are not white and...

16 April 2023 12:15 AM IST

Man gets life for murdering BTech student

Man gets life for murdering BTech student

Hyderabad: Judge Y. Jayaprasad at the LB Nagar criminal court sentenced a man, Anthati Shekar, to life imprisonment for...

7 April 2023 12:00 AM IST

Jetsetting is no longer fashionable. Why not fly less to save the planet? (Photo By Arrangement)

Shreya Sen-Handley | Jetsetting glitzy no more, try the -'flycott-'

“Come Flu With Me” Frank Sinatra would’ve sung had he been living in our Covid present, replacing the...

19 March 2023 12:10 AM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav and National Vice-President Kironmoy Nanda during a meeting, in Kolkata, Friday, March 17, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

Mamata Banerjee revives bid for non-Congress front

NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: In a fresh move to build a non-BJP and non-Congress front, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee...

17 March 2023 10:14 PM IST

Aaditya Gupta (Photo By Arrangement)

OTTs have increased volume of content consumed and produced, says...

OTTs have increased volume of content consumed and produced, says Aaditya Gupta

8 March 2023 3:30 PM IST

A mother with her ill-fated children waits outside the emergency ward of Dr BC Roy Post Graduate Institute of Paediatric Sciences with Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI), in Kolkata on Tuesday. (Photo: PTI)

Amid Adenovirus concerns, five children die of respiratory infections...

Kolkata: Five children have died in West Bengal due to respiratory infections in different hospitals in the city in the...

28 Feb 2023 6:37 PM IST

Cover photo of No Way In by Udayan Mukherjee

Book Review | Hard-hitting social drama questions privilege

The novel, situated in Kolkata, begins with a domestic help accused of theft — wrongfully as it later turns out...

12 Feb 2023 12:57 AM IST

A worker carrying LPG cylinders on a bicycle crosses a road, shrouded in a thick layer of smog, in New Delhi (PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist Lav)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Tackle toxic air now: Itâ€™s ruining our...

There is a new twist in the tale of the legendary Delhi-Mumbai rivalry. Both cities find point-scoring politically...

17 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

Youth make up 80 percent of the population in Hyderabad, major decisions are made by selected few who either are nearing retirement or senior citizens.(Representapional Image:PTI)

FIFA World Cup a grim experience for Hyderabad city fans

The severe restrictions by the police on pubs and refusal of permission for players such as Inox to screen the matches,...

14 Dec 2022 1:07 AM IST

Acclaimed French author and philanthropist Dominique Lapierre during a visit to Kolkata. Lapierre, whose 1985 international bestseller City of Joy earned Kolkata its nickname died at the age of 91. (Photo: PTI)

DC Edit | Adieu to a great storyteller

An affable, kind-hearted and simple man, Lapirerre mingled with ordinary folk and made characters out of them in his...

7 Dec 2022 12:10 AM IST