Two armed goons on Friday afternoon allegedly stormed into the office of the Bolpur block land and land reforms officer Sanjay Roy, held him at gunpoint and asked him to record a few land parcels in t...
The Enforcement Directorate is trying to find out how a property in Santiniketan bought jointly by former minister Partha Chatterjee and his close associate Arpita Mukherjee in 2012 became her sole pr...
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is on the lookout for properties belonging to relatives and close aides of arrested minister Partha Chatterjee in a bid to track the money trail in alleged irregularit...
By Snehamoy Chakraborty, Anshuman Phadikar
in Kolkata, Tamluk
For example, we have a Kashmiri mutton dish that I learnt from my Kashmiri friend. Pork is also a huge attraction here. We have desi-style pork dishes, such as a black sesame pork that I have learnt f...
Purnima Hazra on Thursday voiced before a Union minister a concern plaguing countless Indian homes for months on end: “Sir, I want to tell you that the price of a cylinder should be reduced soon...
There is an entrance fee of Rs 10 and Rs 5 for students and children
The park is open from 10am – 4pm, and closed on Wednesdays
The park lies at the edge of Illambazaar town
It is easily ap...
The English physicist, John Ziman, once complained that a scientist knows as much about science as a fish does about hydrodynamics. This does not mean it cannot swim. Only when the waters get polluted...
Art for art’s sake — the idea that art needs no justification and need not serve a political, didactic or economic purpose — is a principle that must be re-examined. There is the lon...
Any mention of Santiniketan evokes a sense of idyll in the Bengali mind. It is, after all, the beloved bard’s abode of peace. Images of red lateritic soil, a slow-flowing Kopai, sonajhuri and eu...
Even now, Bela Bose is rarely at home, running from demonstrations to training. When she’s home in Lake Gardens, she’s usually working on translating books from English to Bengali or vice ...