Question Time Didi, organised by CNN-IBN at the Town Hall on Friday evening, was meant to be a platform for Mamata Banerjee to field questions from a cross-section of Calcuttans on the eve of her completing one year as chief minister. But less than 12 minutes and five... | Read»

When I think of my childhood in late middle age, I remember people less vividly than I remember things. I remember scented erasers made of opaque rubber topped with a strip of translucent green. Also a cheaper eraser enigmatically called Sandow. And soap. The history of... | Read»

May 17: The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) has threatened to ban Shah Rukh Khan from Wankhede Stadium for alleged misbehaviour that provoked an altercation. | Read»

New Delhi, May 15: Rekha Ganesan, MP — “Rekhajiâ€� if you share Mulayam Singh Yadav’s sense of propriety — had an electrifying effect on Jaya Bachchan today. | Read»

One flag flew high long after the dust had settled on Hillary Rodham ClintonÂ’s trip to Calcutta, in a 176-year-old institution that has refused to crumble like many much-loved ones in the city. | Read»

To them, she was “US ka bahut bara netaÂ….Bill Clinton ki biwi (a top leader of the USÂ….Bill ClintonÂ’s wife)”. To her, they were the faces of a movement close to her heart. | Read»

Pune: Finally, the final. After a four-year wait, which was no less than one hundred years of solitude for the team which has got the most passionate fans and an even more passionate owner, the Kolkata Knight Riders have made the final of the Indian Premier League. | Read»

Mumbai, May 23 (PTI): The Indian rupee continued its free fall for the sixth day in a row, going below 56 against the US dollar on Wednesday to yet another all-time low on heavy demand for the American currency from importers, especially oil refiners, amid foreign fund... | Read»

Calcutta, May 11: It wasn’t too long ago that Pune Warriors India owner Subrata Roy declared that Sourav Ganguly would be the boss in cricketing matters. | Read»

Bhubaneswar, May 22: Contract killings have changed the capital cityÂ’s crime scene, sending police into a tizzy. The trend of hired goons being employed to eliminate rivals or get a painful thorn out of the flesh has alarmed even psychologists and social scientists. | Read»