64-year-old Chinmoy Mahto celebrated Radio Listeners’ Day on Thursday by tuning in to morning bhajans and discourses. Mahto, an advocate who runs a driving school, wakes and sleeps wi...

Tomorrow will mark a big moment in the history of the BBC because at 9 pm it will air the first episode of the much anticipated six-part TV adaptation of Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy, direc...

All parking lots in New Town will be equipped with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) readers that will enable vehicle owners to pay the parking fees in a contact-less way. The New Town authoritie...

As a child, I would be forced to listen to All India Radio when my father tuned in to the broadcasts of khayal in the morning. With the acquisition of a radiogram and its record player came the compet...

Around 600 toll gates on national highways and select state highways, including 19 in Bengal, will be FASTag-enabled from December 15.Vehicles that will have FASTags fitted to their windscreens and en...

Something that the distinguished historian, Professor Margaret MacMillan, said when she appeared as a ‘castaway’ on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs to talk about her life and pick eight pieces...

He is like a walking, talking encyclopaedia on All India Radio (AIR) Calcutta. After all, Ajit Mukhopadhyay has been riding the ether waves for 32 years since 1956 when AIR was housed in 1 Garstin Pla...

The township lost one of its most illustrious residents with the passing of Sunanda Patnaik early on Sunday. She was 85.A grande dame of Hindusthani classical music, belonging to the Gwalior gharana, ...

Bhagwan Birsa Biological Park has begun the trial run of an automated gate system based on RFID (radio frequency identification) technology which will not only get rid of paper tickets, but also help ...

Modern Love (New York Times and WBUR)New York Times’ Modern Love section created ripples collecting real-life stories of readers writing and this podcast was born from that very section. The only di...