Saptarshi Banerjee

Chocolates, tea and water : from youth groups to political parties all extend a helping hand at cash crunch queue

Sunday saw groups of youths and political party workers set up camps near banks to help out people fill up forms.

Notes withdrawal lands puja organisers in Bengal in trouble

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee claimed that she had to borrow money to buy sweets to offer to the

Students show how robots can be used to recycle waste, play football

As many as 735 students from various schools across the country took part in the national championship of the World Robot Olympiad 2016 on Sunday.

Kolkata Zoo on avian flu alert after death of migratory birds in Delhi

The Delhi zoo has been temporarily shut after the death of nine birds.

Love is in the air, as Alipore Zoo authorities pray for tiger couple to bond

Rishi and Payel, a tiger couple raise hope for captive breeding after a decade.

Don’t miss these Pujas in Kolkata

Which are the pandals you shouldn’t miss this year. HT gives you a shortlist along with directions.

Durga Pujas in Kolkata bowl over US envoy

Donahue visited five Durga Puja pandals in Kolkata, tried his hands at Dhaak and Dhamsa madol .

Puja bells toll a full week before schedule as pandal hopping starts

Pujas this time have got off to an unprecedentedly early start

Wish we’d spoken to them on phone last week, say fathers of fallen Uri soldiers

Both from West Bengal, Gangadhar Dolui and Biswajit Ghorai were killed when Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists struck at the army installation in Uri sector of Kashmir.

When faithful came to witness history

Mother Teresa canonisation: When faithfuls came to witness history

The day began earlier than usual for the nuns at Mother House on Sunday. And soon after attending the morning mass at around 6, they were joined by some hundreds of followers.

When faithful from around the world converged at Mother House

There were candles and flowers all around the place where Mother lies in eternal rest, and the mood was one of sombre contemplation. Celebrations were, indeed, low-key, as Mother herself would have preferred, at the institution she founded.

Acid attack again, this time on mother and her two children

Attacks just don’t seem to stop despite a 2013 SC verdict restricting sale of acid.

Explore ‘Seven Wonders of the World’ at Eco Park near Kolkata

From Taj Mahal to Sphinx Pyramid replicas will be on display. Mamata Banerjee’s pet project will be unveiled by year end.

President Pranab’s daughter shames pervert on FB

President’s daughter Sharmistha names and shames ‘pervert’ on Facebook

Congress leader Sharmistha Mukherjee on Saturday named and shamed a man for sending her obscene messages on Facebook and vowed to fight against such perverts.

Merchant navy engineer returns home after two years in Ghana prison

Jogesh Chandra Das, a chief engineer of the merchant navy and a resident of Picnic Garden, Kolkata, was languishing as an undertrial in a Nigerian jail since October 2014 before he was released.

Bengal: Now, a wax statue of Michael Jackson in Rajarhat

After seeing statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Maradona, Ramkrishna Paramhansa, Mother Teresa, Amitabh Bachchan and many others, visitors to Mother’s Wax Museum in New Town will be able to see a statue of pop icon Michael Jackson.

Air India flight to Delhi lands in capital after 12-hour delay

Air India’s Kolkata – Delhi Sunday evening flight reached the capital on Monday morning after more than 12-hour delay.

Bengal government to set up crematorium for pets

Pet lovers in Kolkata will soon be able to give their loved animals a dignified farewell at a leafy crematorium on the outskirts of the city for a much lower cost than a burial.

Ukrainian woman arrested with 1.2 kg cocaine at Kolkata airport

A woman passenger from Ukraine was arrested at Kolkata airport on Tuesday night for possessing 1.2 kg cocaine. She took off from Sao Paolo and landed in Kolkata on an Etihad flight after a stopover in Abu Dhabi.

Kolkata pays tribute to Paris victims with its own Eiffel Tower

Next time you want to visit Eiffel Tower, you won’t have to go to Paris. Just catch a bus to Rajarhat instead.

Kolkata: Alapan doesn’t take poll position, vague on repoll

Interim state election commissioner (SEC) Alapan Bandyopadhyay took charge of the poll machinery on Wednesday and in his first few comments to the media remained largely noncommittal on the issue of repolling in Salt Lake and Asansol municipalities and completing the half-finished election process.

Spoke to media to quell rumours, won't do it again: Siddhartha Das

A day after Siddhartha Das, Indrani Mukerjea’s former live-in partner, found himself thrust into the media glare after he was traced to his home in Kolkata, he spoke to HT about why he decided – reluctantly – to tell his side of the story. “After the news surfaced, I knew that sooner or later I would have to tell my story. The pressure on me was mounting,” he said.

West Bengal JEE results 2015 announced, check it here

The results of the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE) were announced in Kolkata on Friday.

Exclusive window for Tagore songs & poems

The ongoing Kolkata Book Fair will see the launch of a weblink showcasing a comprehensive timeline of Tagore’s creations in black and white, all through his eighty-year life, archived in a decade-wise format. The launch is slated for February 7.

After Singur flight, Tata takes return flight to Bengal

The Tatas — who exited from the Nano car project in Singur in October 2008 after grappling with a sustained anti-land acquisition movement for almost two years — are set to return to the state by the end of March. This time, however, they will touch base at Bagdogra airport.

Gangetic Dolphins to get counted at last

The forest department has come up with a comprehensive plan to conduct a dolphin census in the state and the plan has been forwarded to Delhi by the urban development (UD) department, the nodal agency at the state level for the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) initiative.

Kolkata woman abducted, gangraped for 3 weeks

Woman tells police three men, whom she knew, also filmed their crime and tried to force her into prostitution. She managed to escape from her captors' clutches on December 1.

20-year-old gang-raped by three barmen for three weeks at gunpoint

A 20-year-old married girl was abducted, confined in a room and gang-raped for three weeks at gunpoint before she managed to escape and lodge a police complaint. The incident took place at Baguiati between November 9 and December 1.