Kolkata: A civic worker cleaning a drain died from inhaling toxic gas on Thursday morning. Riaz Uddin Molla (18) was working ...

When the West Bengal government decided to drastically scale back Kolkata’s 150-year-old tram service, leaving just a short heritage stretch from Maidan to Esplanade, it ignited a wave of ...

Adding to the charm of Kolkata's culinary landscape, a tram-shaped tea shop offering premium brands of Makaibari tea was established in front of City Centre-1 mall at Salt Lake in the early 2000s.

In the turbulent 1970s, Satyajit Ray turned his lens on Kolkata — a city caught between political unrest, corporate greed and moral collapse. Through his iconic Calcutta trilogy, Ray crafted an ...

Kolkata: The commissioner of police, Manoj Verma, has requested all concerned road-owning agencies, including the KMC and PWD ...

Meet Jainendra Jain, who just won the Wolf Prize (considered second only to the Nobel) for a discovery that is now helping Microsoft build its quantum chips.

Mahanagar is set in 1955. Ray’s own move away from his joint family in 1948 was a forerunner of the major shifts in Bengali ...

In Satyajit Ray’s cinema, architecture is never mere backdrop — it’s a silent, eloquent witness to the personal and political ...

As it turned out, a lot would happen before that did. He was still 12, on a family holiday to visit relatives in Kolkata, when a tram collided with their car. His mother took the brunt of the ...

The story begins on October 14, 1954, when Jibanananda Das was gravely injured in a tram accident in Kolkata. The play then journeys through the final nine days of his life, as he lay in Sambhunath ...