A full-page newspaper advertisement to boost the image of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has upset the Trinamool Congress, which accused him of showcasing the works of the Bengal ...

KOLKATA: Volunteers and government officials were using boats to hand out rice and drinking water bottles on Wednesday to thousands of people stranded in their homes due to monsoon flooding in India’s ...

The last copy of 'Seong Pow' was printed in March 2020. Hopes of a revival were dashed when elderly editor Kuo-Tsai Chang died in July the same year. The small chain of translators, editors and ...

ON the eastern flank of India, off the Bay of Bengal, is a city that is sinking. Calcutta, or Kolkata as it is now called, has long been notorious for representing some of the world’s most egregious ...

KOLKATA: With a stick in one hand and newspapers in the other, 90-year-old Danesheri Devi ensures none of her customers misses their daily consumption of news. Perhaps the oldest newspaper vendor in ...

The first Hindi newspaper in India, Udant Martand (The Rising Sun), was started on this day from Calcutta. Published by Pandit Jugal Kishore Shukla, it was a weekly newspaper brought out every Tuesday ...

Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly tried to create a split among the Indian journalists who are here to report the series. His closeness to reporters from his city of Kolkata was the reason. It is a known ...