One of those is a 20 percent rise in human trafficking related to "purposes of prostitution", with West Bengal accounting for a fifth of such cases and being the epicentre of India's human-trafficking industry....
As the row over the Kohinoor diamond intensifies with political parties demanding its return to India, accounts of historians establish that the majestic stone was forcibly taken away by the British and was never gifted by Duleep Singh, the last king of Punjab....
At 60,654 acres, Lord Jagannath could be the richest landlord among India's deities. About 395 acres of it is now being sold to create a Rs.1,000 crore maintenance corpus for the 12th century shrine here in the Lord's name, an official said....
Jyotirmoyee Sikdar won laurels aplenty for the country back in the days when she was a middle-distance runner. Now the golden girl is eyeing victory in another race - the assembly contest - armed with her past experience in the electoral fray and hoping to exploit to the hilt the Saradha scam and the raging Narada videotape controversy...
All is not well in West Bengal Left Front, that has stuck together for 39 long years, including 34 years as a ruling coalition. Upset with LF spearhead CPI-M, a prominent partner is now raising questions about the tie-up with the Congress for the assembly polls, wondering "whether we have dug our own grave"....
Reshma Thomas is working for a doctorate on health issues relating to LGBTs and has over 200 paintings - out of an oeuvre of 500 - on the community because she believes that expression through art speaks louder than words and can passionately influence society...
Earlier this month, Harinder Sidhu presented her credentials to President Pranab Mukherjee as Australia's High Commissioner to India. She thus joins two other western Heads of Mission of Indian origin in New Delhi - Ambassador Richard R. Verma of the United States and High Commissioner Nadir Patel of Canada....
For decades Gemini Studios was one of the best-known names in the whole of India. Its owner was the self-made and legendary S.S. Vasan, who once hawked watches on railway platforms but finally went on to win the Padma Bhushan for his contribution to Indian cinema....
What do we make of the Raj's storytellers? Should we simply view them through anti-colonialism's uncompromising prism and unceremoniously dismiss them as standard-bearers of discredited imperialism? Or should we be more judicious in giving them a hearing (or reading) for a historical perspective of the rulers' experiences and c...
His remarks over the “growing intolerance†in the country created a stir in politics and over social media last year and Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan says that he became “sad†and felt like “crying†when he was asked to prove his patriotism....
