In a heartbreaking tragedy, a family of four, including a baby, all believed to be Indians, died from exposure to cold weather on the Canadian side of the border with the US in an apparent human smugg...

I would like to pay tribute to the journalist and poet, Gerson da Cunha, who died in Mumbai, aged 92. Every May, I would see him and his wife, Uma, without fail at the Cannes Film Festival. A man with...

Meat Loaf, the US rock star whose debut Bat Out of Hell became one of the best-selling albums of all time, has died aged 74.  Delivering epic anthems about love, lust and motorcycles with an int...

A herd of tuskers trampled to death a person and injured two at a village in Bankura’s Jhagrapur area early on Thursday. Sources said a herd of seven adult tuskers and four calves wandered into...

“All family members and villagers are saying that the deaths happened after consuming liquor, but the district administration is not accepting it. “The incident seems to be a result of ho...

A board, a few brushes, a bottle of black ink and sundry other drawing material. That’s all Narayan Debnath needed to fire the imagination of generations of young Bengali readers over six decade...

According to hospital sources, the veteran cartoonist had been suffering from heart problems since Tuesday morning. His condition became critical. His blood pressure was fluctuating.  ...

It dropped its first season in March 2019, at a time when death was personal. Its subsequent seasons — in April 2020 and now in January 2022 — have come into a world where death has become...

A 50-year-old fisherman from Gujarat, who was apprehended by Pakistani authorities a year ago on high seas, died in a jail in that country due to unknown reasons, an official said on Monday. The dece...

  Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday condoled the death of Kathak exponent Birju Maharaj, saying his demise is a huge loss to the word of performing arts. Birju Maharaj died at his home ...