Kolkata, the soccer mad city of cricket crazy India, is set to hold another big football event involving the game's legends on Dec 8 when yesteryears' greats from Brazil and other powerhouses clash at

Hundreds of Muslims on Thursday marched towards the American Centre here to protest against an anti-Islam video and to demand that the US authorities apologise for it.

The protestors, belonging to M

A devastating fire gutted three manufacturing units of a paint factory at Cossipore in North Kolkata on Sunday night. There was no report of any casualty or persons being trapped inside the factories

A farmer, dubbed a Maoist by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee after he questioned her at a rally earlier this month at Belpahari in West Midnapore district, was on Friday given bail by a loc

Former chief minister and CPI(M) politburo member Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee ridiculed the Mamata Banerjee government by comparing its functioning with a neighbourhood club. He vehemently criticised the

Founder of software giant Infosys, N.R. Narayana Murthy on Friday said he was positive that the company's first centre would come up in the metropolis.

"I am certainly positive about the Kolkata c

The eastern, northern and northeastern regional grids collapsed on Tuesday resulting in an unprecedented situation with power snapped in the states of West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Assam and

Their eyes lined with black pencil and lips painted red, women in sequined saris line the labyrinth of squalid lanes that make up Sonagachi, one of Asia's largest red light districts in the old quarte

At least six mentally challenged women have been killed and buried secretly in West Bengal, the police said on Sunday.

Three men including the superintendent of the government-run home for the mental

Asian Games gold medallist Pinki Pramanik on Wednesday walked out of jail after 26 days and said she was falsely implicated in the rape case.

A Barasat court had on Tuesday granted the athlete b