Alipurduar district, that emerged as a new district in 2014, celebrated its eighth anniversary on Saturday. In 2014, chief minister Mamata Banerjee had announced that Alipurduar, which was earlier a ...

Sixty singers and 124 dancers of 12 cultural groups came together for a spring festival organised by Ward 34. While the groups performed individually, the performers of different genres and styles cam...

Though completed in 1929, the memorial hall remained a blind spot. And then in 1977, Jyoti Basu, who was then the chief minister of West Bengal, decided to make a museum of it. He donat...

All ministers in BJP-led central and state governments and its elected representatives will take part in a massive public outreach campaign to mark the eighth anniversary of the Modi government, focus...

"I love to love you baby…" sang Donna Summer in 1975, virtually single-handedly kick-starting the disco craze. World-famous today, the song caused something of a scandal upon its orig...

One consequence of a politically aware environment was the near-absence of communal strife in Vadakara, which was not always the case in some of the adjoining areas. V.K. Suresh, an author and a walki...

“This building is perhaps the first memorial archive of Tagore that was declared a memorial after his name back in May, 1944. Visitors can see the chair, bed and other furniture used by the poet...

434 students and faculty members were awarded for their contributions in various fields ...

A Bengali film celebrating the life of Satyajit Ray opened a pan-India festival on the master on Monday. The teaser of Aparajito, directed by Anik Datta, has been generating a generous amount of trac...