Sreelekha Mitra has won the Best Actress award for ‘Once Upon a Time in Calcutta’, amid top honours at this year’s New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) that celebrated India...

Talpain even took a photograph of his toto driver, Maina, and later sent the photo to him. “The impact of climate change is on the rise. In that context, the French consul general’s trip ...

A dilapidated portion at the back, delinked from the main structure, will be demolished to make space for the new building. With a cafe, a boutique hotel with six rooms and a multi-purpose space, it w...

How do you govern a territory which has 258 kinds of cheese?” Charles De Gaulle had jokingly complained in 1962. The new French consul general in Calcutta, Didier Talpain, invoked the former pre...

Melinda Pavek took over as US consul general in Calcutta on Thursday. She replaced Patti Hoffman. Pavek was the counsellor for science, innovation, and development at the US embassy in Tokyo before h...

Rowan Ainsworth landed in Calcutta in late February and took over at the consulate general in March after serving the mandatory quarantine period. By Poila Baisakh, she was settled enough in the city ...

German consul general Manfred Auster took office on September 28, after spending a fortnight quarantined in Taj Bengal. He met The Telegraph for a socially distanced chat on the consulate lawns. ...

Welcome to Calcutta. It’s been a month that you have been here. What were your earlier postings?I have come directly from a south Pacific island country called Tonga. I was there for three years. Pr...

A video of the Indian consul-general in New York has surfaced on social media in which he is seen comparing the possibility of Kashmiri Pandits returning home to that of Jews to Israel.Diplomat Sandee...