Kim Jong-il loved the "good life". He liked to drink a certain Hennessy cognac and annually spent $6,50,000 to $7,20,000 on it. He lived in a seven-storey "pleasure palace” and re...

Reflecting on the moment I first heard of his passing while watching him put across one of his most telling sequences in cinema, I realise that someone like Soumitra Chatterjee never dies. He will liv...

From her perspective it was probably the best way to die for her country, defending the idea that she loved, Gandhi said. He said he essentially had two mothers -- "a super mother who was my gra...

The Congress, in a tweet from its official Twitter handle, also lauded the former prime minister's contribution to the country. "She represented strength. She epitomised sacrifice. She perso...

Other than BHF members, the event was attended by Henry Vivian-Neal from the Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery, Rohit Vadhwana, first secretary, High Commission of India, and Neil Mukherjee, a Tagore d...

A group of friends who lost schoolmate Abhignan Mukherjee — an inspector in Calcutta police’s traffic department — to Covid last year, donated Rs 75,000 to a school in Purulia on the...

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ltija Mufti, daughter of PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, on Friday wrote a letter to the union territory administration seeking permission to visit the grave of her maternal grandfather and former chief...

Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, leading the state in paying tribute to Bhupen Hazarika on his 8th death anniversary, said people must realise the true essence of the legendary bard’s songs ...

People in Assam paid tribute to music maestro Bhupen Hazarika on the occasion of his seventh death anniversary on Monday.The day witnessed events like inauguration of a museum containing the singer’...