Bitten and beaten, he still managed to save this python

Friday 31 October '08

The residents of a small locality in Howrah’s Domjur, 20 kms from Kolkata, can still recall the events of October 12: a victory procession carrying a gigantic python is not a sight to be forgotten soon.

New passport project to make work easier

Friday 17 October '08

The recent decision of the centre to hand over the Rs 1000-crore Passport Seva Project to the Tata Consultancy Services will greatly reduce the delay in getting passport, as police will be able to submit the verification reports online.

City’s real estate prices register a slump

Saturday 11 October '08

The real estate boom which had sent residential property rates sky-rocketing in the city and its suburbs last year has now reached a plateau.

Rail tracks a death trap in Bengal’s wild corridors

Friday 12 September '08

Wildlife experts and forest officials in West Bengal are caught in a strange dilemma when it comes to the growing human-elephant conflict in north Bengal.

Why Buddha is against bandhs

Thursday 28 August '08

From the Chief Minister to the Calcutta High Court, everyone has expressed helplessness in checking the culture of bandhs in West Bengal.

Kolkata builds a housing project powered by sun

Sunday 6 July '08

When Debabrata Dutta, a senior technical manager with Wipro Technologies, and wife Arunima finally settled down in Kolkata...

Sealdah’s killer tracks

Tuesday 24 June '08

The Eastern Railway’s Sealdah division has a scary secret buried in its files. Sealdah suburban division recorded as many...

Ray film institute rides airwaves

Thursday 5 June '08

These days, the 10-km stretch from Ruby Hospital to Kamalgazi in east Kolkata tunes into a new band on radio...

Aboard Maitree Express, history overcomes geography

Tuesday 15 April '08

There were few dry eyes as the Maitree Express entered Bangladesh on a scorching Poila Baisakh afternoon on Monday...

TRACK II

Sunday 6 April '08

As the Maitree Express gets ready to link India and Bangladesh 43 years after it was suspended during the 1965 Indo-Pak War, the Sunday Express catches up with the preparations at Gede, the last station on this side of the border

Kolkata man held for UP blasts

Sunday 30 December '07

West Bengal Police on Saturday morning arrested a 26-year-old Kolkata electricity corporation employee for his alleged involvement in the serial blasts...

Buddha gave orders for Nandigram firing: FB

Monday 24 December '07

Veteran Forward Bloc leader Ashok Ghosh on Sunday said it was Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee who gave the order for police firing in Nandigram on March 14.

Rice from obscurity

Friday 7 December '07

It’s an innocuous little plot, a little over an acre, adjoining the Agriculture Training Centre...

Red carpet awaits Prashant at Kolkata police barracks

Tuesday 25 September '07

Transformed from an unassuming policeman to an icon overnight, life has taken a new turn for Indian Idol Prashant Tamang.

In Kolkata, Abe wants to meet family of Tokyo trial judge who knew his grandfather

Wednesday 22 August '07

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will have a busy day in Kolkata on Thursday but he has let it be known that he wants to spend some time with a certain Pal family.

1.5 km shift for a village, a giant leap for West Bengal

Sunday 19 August '07

On the map, it is just a 1.5 km shift. But away from the heat and dust of Nandigram and Singur, the decision of villagers of Manoharpur in Birbhum district to willingly relocate marks a much larger change.

NASA calls Kolkata doc to help in moon mission

Wednesday 13 June '07

Homoeopathy and a lunar settlement project may not seem the likeliest of combinations. Until, one meets Dr Pratip Banerjee.

There’s still no count of Sunderbans tigers

Monday 28 May '07

The tiger census report eludes West Bengal even as the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) recently announced the census reports of six states in the country.

Rs 137 crore spent, NHAI project shelved

Saturday 26 May '07

West Bengal is watching an ambitious road project going haywire— courtesy its Chinese connection.

Hope for a new TB cure, Kolkata scientists identify ‘villain’ protein

Wednesday 9 May '07

There is quiet celebration in the chemistry department at the Bose Institute here a day after news that scientists in this north Kolkata laboratory have identified a protein in the tuberculosis bacteria which weakens the body’s immune system.

Minister’s wife runs library on state bus

Wednesday 18 April '07

In what could constitute as misuse of government funds through preferential treatment, the state transport department has allowed a Calcutta State Transport Corporation bus to be used by an NGO as its mobile library for the past three years.

Right of passage

Sunday 1 April '07

It’s a no-contest. In the game of survival between man and animal, man is the clear winner.

BSF exposes Indo-Bangla smuggling racket on film

Thursday 29 March '07

Even as the Eastern Railway authorities in Kolkata give final touches to the plans of a passenger train service between Kolkata and Joydebpur in Bangladesh, the issue of “security” assumes a significant dimension.

Tech training to sewing: 3,000 from Singur families who gave land join govt, Tata schemes

Thursday 8 February '07

While the state government works to lower the political temperature in Nandigram, an important part of the strategy is to showcase the new range of employment opportunities in Singur’s Tata car project.

High tide

Sunday 4 February '07

As the Sunderbans takes to ecotourism, budget tourists flock to the world’s largest mangrove forests