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 — “Rekhaji” if you share Mulayam Singh Yadav’s sense of propriety — had an electrifying effect on Jaya Bachchan today. | 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»
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»
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»
New Delhi, May 2: An Indian Navy cadet today set sail onboard a Chinese warship named after a 15th century eunuch admiral on a voyage to mark the anniversary of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). | Read»
April 30: Cable operators will have to offer at least 100 free-to-air channels for Rs 100 a month under the digitised regime that is scheduled to cover the whole of Calcutta and adjoining areas from July 1. | Read»
Mudar Patherya, a former Sportsworld journalist, writes an open letter to Shah Rukh Khan | Read»












