The miniskirt, the focus of a new exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, was a political statement by the fashion designer, Mary Quant, in London of the Swinging Sixties. It was a revolutiona...

The Calcutta Port Trust on Saturday introduced a logistics data bank that aims to track container cargo almost on a real time basis using radio frequency identification services.According to port offi...

From family members I hear of neighbourhood trees that fell during Cyclone Amphan. Quite apart from the human toll, it was also very sad to read about the countless birds that lost their homes or even...

It is being alleged that the term, public broadcaster, is a misnomer in the case of Doordarshan and All India Radio. Perhaps the scorn has something to do with these State-owned networks — they are ...

Public broadcasters All India Radio and Doordarshan have gone into a propaganda overdrive crediting Prime Minister Narendra Modi — who came to power at the Centre in 2014 with the promise of Rs 15 l...

At a bus stop in Howrah a fortnight ago, a 29-year-old was wolfing down the contents of a food packet. Swaraj Ghosh, a ham radio operator, was distributing food to people on the streets when he came a...

Sometime in 1959, when I was still in kindergarten, I recollect that my school was closed for an unscheduled period of time. There was violence in the city. My parents would become very agitated after...