When Purnendu Chatterjee joined hands with the Bengal government to build Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd (HPL), the then chief minister Jyoti Basu asked the NRI businessman if he had a home in Calcutta. &...

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Mamata Banerjee began the 2019 general election in the grand hope that with a clutch of nearly 40 Lok Sabha seats, she would be ideally placed to become the first Bengali prime minister of India — a...

Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said her Brigade meeting on Saturday would be a “mega” rally that would be attended by virtually all regional parties with the common intent of ousting the BJP from the ...

Ravi Shankar Prasad’s claim of only 296 Anglo-Indians must be contrasted with Chakravarti Rajagopalachari’s perceptive comment that most educated Indians are “Anglo-Indians”. Like Han Suyin, h...

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Mamata Banerjee has pitched Saturday’s Brigade Grounds rally as a “United India” platform where other non-BJP forces would be given prominence, appearing to take a backseat at what promises to b...

Mamata Banerjee on Sunday divulged a “personal secret”, hidden for years at her Harish Chatterjee Street home in Calcutta, and told the world how her nephew Abhishek joined politics.“Abhishek wa...

Last week could have been yesterday all over again, except that yesterday seems more far away than it actually is. Of course, when Kargil happened in 1999, Twitter was still a good seven years away. F...

1 The hotel took around five years to build and opened doors on October 10, 1989 and was inaugurated by Jyoti Basu, the then chief minister of Bengal.2 The total number of keys are 229, including 200 ...