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(L-R) Nikhil Kamath’s advice for CEOs, Kate Middleton’s new show, Brendon McCullum’s Bazball plans, and more in this week’s satirical wrap-up

Nikhil Kamath, Kate Middleton and Brendon McCullum headline the week that should have been

My Kolkata looks at how the past seven days transpired in a parallel universe, tongue permanently in cheek

Poster of the Agam Darshi-directed ‘Donkeyhead’

Award-winning film ‘Donkeyhead’ to be screened in Kolkata at Nandan

On World First Aid Day, a Scoutmaster’s guide to surviving bumps and bruises with a smile
A lotus worth remembering: The life & times of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

Hopes belied

Mujib’s boast of transforming governance for the benefit of farmers, workers and the downtrodden echoed the apologetic rhetoric of generations of absolute rulers the world over

SUNANDA K. DATTA-RAY

Troubled thawing

Climate change is no longer an abstract environmental issue, something to be addressed by future generations or with feel-good global accords that kick the climate can down the road

CAROL SCHAEFFER

Deep crisis

Farming is not paying & jobs are few and far between. Even meagerly paying govt jobs have the first preference among the youths in the working age over private-sector, contractual jobs

JAIDEEP HARDIKAR

Shame where it is due

Collective anger and the call for justice are important because this is society’s unified position against the crime and corruption. But the woman’s own fight should not be forgotten

THE EDITORIAL BOARD

Work in progress

The Left, far more experienced than the Bengal BJP in infiltrating and moulding movements, has had nominal success in spreading Left-inclined songs and slogans among the impressionable

SWAPAN DASGUPTA

Sector 36: Vikrant Massey is a serial killer in Netflix’s unsettling crime thriller

The Aditya Nimbalkar-directed film stars Deepak Dobriyal as the cop who nabs the killer

CBI arrests Sandip Ghosh in RG Kar rape-murder case, Kolkata cop held for altering evidence

Asked to leave unceremoniously, it seems state government is not serious about talks

Dalits facing social boycott after Pocso complaint against 'upper caste' youth in Karnataka's Yadgir

Axe on Jawaharlal Nehru University's Hindi translation course due to lack of funds

Visit helpless Manipur where people are 'eagerly waiting': Congress to PM Narendra Modi

Madhabi Puri-Buch invested in China funds, violated Sebi code on Conflict of Interest: Congress

Neeraj Chopra finishes second in Diamond League final, misses crown by 1cm

What led CM Mamata Banerjee to apologise for the junior doctors' stalemate?

50 years on, Calcutta horror echoes brutal reminder of Aruna Shanbaug’s case

Madam chief minister, a lot is rotten to the core in the state of West Bengal

Why is Uttarakhand losing 45 hectare of forestland every month?

SHORTS

Ex-Principal Sandip Ghosh Arrested in RG Kar Trainee Doctor’s Rape and Murder Case

"Why Are You Insulting Me?" Why Mamata-Doctors Meeting Attempt Ended in Failure

"At Least Have A Cup Of Tea, If You Don't Want Meeting": Mamata Banerjee Tells Junior Doctors

"NC, PDP & Congress Want to Bring Back Article 370": PM Modi in J&K's Doda

“Mamata Came Here After 35 Days, We See That as a Step Ahead”: Protesting Junior Doctor

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee Reaches Protest Site to Meet Junior Doctors

“The Guilty Will be Given Strict Punishment”: Mamata to Junior Doctor

4 Years & Counting, Umar Khalid Awaits Trial in 2020 Delhi Riots Conspiracy Case

"My Father Was on a Hijacked Plane in 1984": EAM S Jaishankar Recalls

"My Courage Has Grown 100 Times": Arvind Kejriwal After Walking Out of Tihar Jail

TOP PICKS

Biomedical waste trafficking: What it entails and the great health hazard it poses

Xuanzang’s epic journey to India: The early visitor to Nalanda, all the way from China

One heavy shower and I flow dangerously high, a disaster waiting to happen: This is Teesta

Love Untouchable: How Bimal Roy’s 'Sujata' embodied caste inequality, 6 decades ago

TRENDING

Haryana Assembly polls: PM Narendra Modi aims to woo both Hindutva and Dalit vote banks

Kejri factor to split votes in Haryana: BJP hope to benefit from release of AAP leader on bail

Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal at the steering wheel: Aam Aadmi Party to Delhi’s voters

12-year-old Dalit boy made to dance, stripped over 'theft' in Rajasthan; six held

Government seal to back 'no-intrusion' cry: Rights groups cite MHA report

Nobel Peace laureate and human rights lawyer Oleksandra Matviichuk's tips for 'ordinary'

Depression heading westward, showers in city: Rain alert for south Bengal districts

Nikhil Kamath, Kate Middleton and Brendon McCullum headline the week that should have been

Award-winning film ‘Donkeyhead’ to be screened in Kolkata at Nandan

On World First Aid Day, a Scoutmaster’s guide to surviving bumps and bruises with a smile

A lotus worth remembering: The life & times of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

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INDIA

Haryana Assembly polls: PM Narendra Modi aims to woo both Hindutva and Dalit vote banks

Dalits facing social boycott after Pocso complaint against 'upper caste' youth in Karnataka's Yadgir

PM Modi claims terrorism 'taking its last breath' in J&K despite fresh spurt in attacks

Kejri factor to split votes in Haryana: BJP hope to benefit from release of AAP leader on bail

Axe on Jawaharlal Nehru University's Hindi translation course due to lack of funds

12-year-old Dalit boy made to dance, stripped over 'theft' in Rajasthan; six held

Neighbours lynch 2 tribal women over suspicion of practising witchcraft in Bengal

I cannot force, can only appeal to you, Mamata Banerjee at doctors' protest site

Alipurdur: College girl files police complaint, levels rape charge against senior

Audio clip exposes 'Left plot' to attack doctors, malign TMC government: Kunal Ghosh

Health care of Bengal cannot depend on only 3% trainee doctors, say medics on protest

Prohibitory orders around RG Kar Medical College and Hospital extended till September 30

Centre's subsidised onion sale initiative brings relief, prices drop in major cities

Swiss twist adds grist to Adani saga, Taiwanese crony Chang Chung-Ling under scanner

Dock systems at Calcutta, Haldia report a sharp 8.04 per cent drop in cargo handled

Workers who assemble Boeing planes are on strike. Will that affect flights?

Ford Motor Company set to resume operations at Chennai plant for export of vehicles

National Company Law Tribunal allows Zee to recall merger with Culver Max Entertainment

US: Donald Trump pledges to deport Haitians in Ohio city if elected

Important duty: Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore plan to vote in 2024 US election from space

Actor-singer Justin Timberlake pleads guilty to impaired driving in New York

Biden meets with UK PM and brushes off Putin's threats about weapons for Ukraine

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES

Russia expels six British diplomats: Tensions mount over long-range missiles usage

Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris for US President after debate against Donald Trump

Israel forces mount new raids in West Bank, Palestinians killed in Tulkarm and Tubas

Cholera outbreak: Deaths soar across the globe despite being preventable, says WHO

India edge Pak 2-1 to storm into semifinals of Asian Champions Trophy on unbeaten note

Indian set-up operates by itself and goal will be to protect that: Morne Morkel

Davis Cup: N. Sriram Balaji to take on Swede No. 1 Elias Ymer in opener