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Hard to digest: Are Kolkata food vloggers losing their credibility?

Going from viral videos to viewer backlash, Kolkatans are beginning to question how much of food vlogging is real and how much is performance

Kolkata is a city that never makes you feel alone. But if you want some ‘me-time’, there’s plenty of places for that too

When the city feels like a friend: Best places in Kolkata to take yourself on a solo date

As Kolkata air quality remains poor, doctors warn residents of carbon build-up in lungs
Sweet childhood of mine: Novelty mishtis that made growing up more magical

Questions that linger

The questions that Martin Luther King hoped to discuss with Jawaharlal Nehru in February 1959 spoke to their own time. As well as to ours

RAMACHANDRA GUHA

The geometry of belonging

Bhargava’s call to foreground Indian science came across as a gesture of cultural revivalism, aligning with the rhetoric of a ruling establishment that seeks legitimacy in imagined golden ages

SHELLEY WALIA

Cautionary tale

India’s UAPA stands today as a case study in how legal measures taken in the name of national security can curdle into perpetual exception. Its practice rewards political persecution

ASHISH KHETAN

Debt traps

Bihari women are in the grip of a vicious cycle of microfinance loans as rural livelihoods have collapsed. Forget starting micro enterprises, they cannot find paltry livelihoods in their native places

JAIDEEP HARDIKAR

Tsunami of support

Is this indicative of a worrying inertia — scepticism — on the part of the electorate? If so, it is also ironic given Bihar’s luminous history of experiments in social change

THE EDITORIAL BOARD

Rajamouli’s ‘Globe Trotter’ starring Mahesh Babu, Priyanka Chopra now titled ‘Varanasi’

New title announced at a special event in Hyderabad’s Ramoji Film City

Russell, Hasaranga, Maxwell: Big names released as IPL 2026 retention delivers major surprises

Result that has come from Bihar is unbelievable. We will come out with concrete proof

Inspector, constables, revenue staff, tailor: The nine lives lost in Nowgam blast

‘Market open, fear will take time to go’: Lajpat Rai traders brace for slow recovery after blast

Iran confirms its Revolutionary Guards seized tanker in Gulf waters over alleged ‘unauthorized cargo’

Metro hits all-time high in mobile QR sales as 53k tickets booked in a day

World Cup winners Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma to appear on ‘Two Much with Kajol and Twinkle’

Kashmir to Red Fort via Turkey — timeline of Delhi blast that claimed 13 lives

Bihar election litmus test for PM Modi? What BJP, Congress say

Silenced online — the hidden war against women In India

Lives lost, data missing: The snakebite crisis West Bengal won’t count

SHORTS

‘He Was the Sole Breadwinner’: Families Reel as Accidental Nowgam Blast Claims 9 Lives

"Looking at Bihar, I Feel Less Bad": Omar Abdullah After Losing Badgam Bypoll

CCTV Shows Tremors, Panic Inside Metro Station During Blast Near Red Fort

Accidental Blast at J&K Police Station During Handling of Seized Explosives

Bihar Election Results: NDA Croxsses 200 Mark, Mahagathbandhan Collapses

PM Modi Slams Congress After Bihar Debacle — "I Fear it Will See a Split"

Modi Says Bihar Wave Will Flow to Bengal — "Together We'll Uproot Jungle Raj"

Bihar Election Result | Congress Sitting on Single Digits as NDA Zooms Past

Bihar Election Result | Tejashwi Yadav’s Youth-Centric Approach Fails to Find Takers

Bihar Election Result | Women Voters Fuel Nitish Kumar, JD(U) and BJP Sweep Bihar

A step-by-step visual guide to filling the SIR form for the 2025 West Bengal voter list

Election Commission launches new website to access 2002 voter list amid SIR row in Bengal

How to contact your BLO? As SIR of voter lists rolls out in Bengal, here’s a quick guide

Bengal: Name search hits SIR wall, 2002 voter list requires users to manually browse PDFs

TOP PICKS

The Calcutta chromosome: How the airport’s porter woes show deeper malaise

Meghnad Saha: A play on negotiating caste politics and an unbudging system

And The SIRcus Comes To Town: A silent film revealing different narratives of belonging

‘I am obsessed with rivers’: Goutam Ghose on 'Parikrama' and stories of displacement

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Already issued instructions to use Aadhaar as proof of identity, not citizenship

Class 6 student in Palghar dies days after alleged sit-up punishment in school

Lalu’s daughter announces exit from politics, cuts ties with RJD family after Bihar poll debacle

Raj Kumar Singh quits BJP, says his anti-graft stand 'made some people uncomfortable'

Jan Suraaj Party says cash transfer to accounts of women helped NDA sweep Bihar polls

Sarfaraz Khan backs his game amid criticism, lauds Shardul’s leadership in Mumbai camp

‘Delhi Crime’ Season 3 review: Shefali Shah-starrer true crime franchise is at a crossroads

Hard to digest: Are Kolkata food vloggers losing their credibility?

When the city feels like a friend: Best places in Kolkata to take yourself on a solo date

As Kolkata air quality remains poor, doctors warn residents of carbon build-up in lungs

Sweet childhood of mine: Novelty mishtis that made growing up more magical

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Questions that linger

The geometry of belonging

Cautionary tale

Debt traps

Tsunami of support

INDIA

Nowgam police station blast ‘accidental’, confirms J&K DGP; L-G expresses anguish

Jan Suraaj Party says cash transfer to accounts of women helped NDA sweep Bihar polls

RJD’s worst since 2010 under Tejashwi: ‘Jungle Raj’ stigma, job plank damp squib hurt party

Red Fort car blast probe: Police track down parked vehicles, question drivers and owners

Security agencies raze Delhi blast accused Dr Umar's Pulwama home, ill dad told to vacate

Delhi blast probe: Doctors linked to Al Falah University detained across 3 states

BJP: Next is Bengal's turn, TMC says Nitish Kumar followed Mamata's welfare politics

Equations remain in favour of Mamata Banerjee for upcoming elections: Trinamool

Sikkim film director wins award at Calcutta fest for feature film Shape of Momo

Pellets shot to drive away a wild elephant end up injuring nine people at Jalpaiguri

13th International Tourism Mart, a flagship event to highlight Northeast issues

HC anti-defection axe strikes Mukul; Suvendu hails decision, rivals tear into him

Akasa Air to fly from Navi Mumbai on Dec 25, sets sights on wider domestic expansion

Apple weighs post-Tim Cook era as report points to John Ternus as likely next chief

Piyush Goyal says 'all possibilities on the table' as India-Canada FTA talks wait for a reset

Co-ordinated steps to shield exporters: RBI rolls out credit relief, Centre eases quality norms

Andhra Pradesh attracts Adani, Ambani: CM Naidu eyes $500 billion investment in three years

Tata Steel seeks urgent UK support as EU tariff moves hit profitability outlook

Trump rolls back tariffs on beef, coffee and other foods as consumer pressure grows

Trump considers Saudi request for F-35 jets ahead of White House meeting with prince Salman

Apple weighs post-Tim Cook era as report points to John Ternus as likely next chief

Trump says MRI in recent physical was 'very standard,' cites 'best result' doctor ever saw

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