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A cyclist’s journey to make into Guinness World Records

Jaipur: Twenty-eight-year-old Ankit Arora simply did what his heart told him – quit his Chartered Accountancy course mid-way, travel to Jaipur, took up a content writing job and then took off on his cycle. Travelling...

Why SC verdict on instant Triple Talaq is an embarrassment for misogynist clergies

New Delhi/Kolkata: Thirty-year-old Ishrat Jahan from Howrah, heaved a sigh of relief when she got to know about the Apex court putting a 6-month stay on triple talaq and directing the government to come up...

Kolkata gets first food ATM, as Samaritans pledge hunger free society

Kolkata: Did you know that, the amount of food that Indians wastes, if utilized could feed a Egypt like nation for a year? And did you know that 194.6 million Indians go hungry every day....

Classical music finds it difficult to tune in with GST

Kolkata: Since the Government of India has implemented the Goods and Services Tax (GST) despite murmurs of resent, several sectors seem to be reeling from its after effects. Some claim that GST is still a...

Rupa Mam, NCRB says, rape lowest in Bengal, MP tops

Kolkata: Rupa Ganguly, the prominent face of Bharatiya Janata Party in Bengal, used to be reckoned with pride, But may not any longer. Rupa’s rape comment, which many say, is uncalled for, asking supporters of...

Bengal under attack, from fake news and images

Kolkata: When Souvik Sarkar, a teenager from West Bengal’s Rudrapur village, was posting a “religiously insensitive” morphed image or meme on his timeline in Facebook, he perhaps failed to understand the futility of his action....

People rise against lynching: Silent protest on Eid, next Not In My Name

Kolkata: While the Muslims from across India, tied black band during Eid to protest mob lynching  Muslims from Kolkata gathered at the iconic Red Road for the Eid namaz on Monday morning. The overcast sky...

The ‘endangered’ cricket ball

Kolkata: Do you know that the cherry coloured ball, which Bhuvneshwar Kumar will gently rub on his pants before running a couple of steps and hurling it towards Pakistani opener Ahmed Shehzad at Birmingham, is...

Ballad singer Khan, praises Krishna and Shiva, digitalises Folk Lore

Kolkata: Twenty-four-year-old Yusuf Khan, a Muslim Jogi from Alwar district, stays a few blocks away from the now-famous Pehlu Khan who was lynched for trading in cattle. In a way, Yusuf Khan, a ballad singer...

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Arjun’s ‘Ghar Wapsi’ In TMC After Three Years

Kolkata: It's yet another ‘Ghar Wapsi’ for Trinamool Congress with Bharatiya Janata Party’s Member of Parliament from Barrackpore and its vice president Arjun Singh...

India stands with lawyer Prashant Bhushan

Ranchi: From homes and roads to in front of the Supreme Court braving the rain, hundreds of lawyers, activists, leaders and ordinary people all...

The cricketer who put a new spin on Indian bowling attack

Delhi: Indian cricket has lost one of its most stylist test batsman, great captain and equally great coach, Ajit Wadekar. Wadekar passed away on...

Religion, rituals and communal harmony in colonial Awadh

Qasbas in the colonial Awadh were the spaces where ‘we’ feeling was constantly (re)made across the narrow confines of religion and sect. Three major...

Sujeda’s journey, from rolling beedis to Quill fellow

Kolkata: As a young girl, she used to roll beedis at home, just like any woman of Ahiron village of Murshidabad do for a...