India's greatest business school: No MBA, no campus, no degree — This is how the most successful business community in the world's most populous country actually learnsIndia’s business culture is changing fast. Yet one community understood entrepreneurial learning decades earlier. The Marwari business mind...
11 May, 2026, 09.26 PM IST
Suvendu's cabinet line-up has ministers embodying Bengal's geographical, ethnic divideWest Bengal witnesses the formation of its first BJP government with Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari and five ministers sworn in. The cabin...
09 May, 2026, 02.27 PM IST
PM Modi calls for regaining Rabindranath Tagore's 'Sonar Bangla' in letter to Bengal ahead of pollsPrime Minister Modi has appealed directly to the people of West Bengal. He invokes historical figures and the dream of 'Sonar Bangla'. The ...
23 Feb, 2026, 12.41 PM IST
San Francisco-based founder discovers his security guard is a YouTube star with 300,000 fans, internet can’t handle itA San Francisco employer discovered his security guard, a young Indian-origin man, runs a popular Bengali comedy YouTube channel with over ...
11 Dec, 2025, 04.16 PM IST
Congress files police complaint against BJP over alleged AI-generated videos in AssamThe Congress party in Assam has filed a police complaint against the BJP, alleging the use of AI-generated videos on social media to target...
18 Sep, 2025, 10.44 PM IST
CAIT and Meta expand ‘WhatsApp Se Wyapaar’ partnershipThe partnership’s goal is to localize digitization efforts to unleash growth opportunities for businesses with hyper-local digital training...
24 Jul, 2023, 09.23 PM IST
'Lootera' actor Barun Chanda's entrepreneur-son Abhik passes away at 51 due to septicemiaAccording to an ETimes report, the entrepreneur was suffering from a respiratory infection, that later spread throughout his body, leading ...
21 Jul, 2023, 01.03 PM IST
Joy Ma Calamari: A 2022 Kalkatta diaryGenerations of young Bengali men and women continue to leave the city. The portrait in their heads gets imagined in Bengaluru or Noida or S...
06 Aug, 2022, 09.36 PM IST
Financial support has poured in for documentary film makers in ManipurThe entrepreneurs who jointly supported the projects are Dr. Thangjam Dhabali, Wahengbam Braja, Konica Khuraijam, and Radhesyam Oinam.
08 May, 2022, 04.07 PM IST
FM launches Indian Bank's business mentoring programme for MSMEsFinancial Services Secretary Debashish Panda, who also participated in the launch event through video conferencing, delved on the various i...
06 Oct, 2020, 10.13 PM IST
- Tap into opportunities due to IT explosion, President tells Bengal
Kolkata, Nov 29 (IANS) Observing that West Bengal was a "slow starter" in IT, President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday urged it to grab the o...
29 Nov, 2017, 01.17 PM IST
How hungry British sahibs and Portuguese sailors helped Bengalis develop their sweet toothJust like Phantom, the masked superhero of Old Jungle, there are endless legends.
28 May, 2017, 01.02 PM IST
India, Bangladesh to jointly make films on 1971 war, Sheikh MujiburPranab Mukherjee India would be launching the channel which would act as a "bridge of amity between the two countries", an official stateme...
17 Aug, 2016, 03.52 PM IST
Creation of Bandhan Bank marks the return of Bengali entrepreneurs: FM Arun JaitleyUnderscoring the importance of economic activity in eastern states, Jaitley said that political differences between BJP and the TMC would n...
23 Aug, 2015, 06.02 PM IST
App introduces tricolour hoisting featureTrendyworks has come out with a 'FamilyApp' on Independence Day through which one can experience the pride of hoisting the national flag.
15 Aug, 2015, 09.16 AM IST
Preference for melancholia over enterprise is deeply embedded in the Bengali psycheOver a period of time Chatterjee rose to become a well-known Bengali entrepreneur with diverse business interests across the globe.
29 May, 2014, 12.36 PM IST
- Virgin comics launches India show
Virgin Comics, a collaboration between Deepak Chopra, Shekhar Kapur and British maverick entrepreneur Richard Branson, has announced the la...
18 Aug, 2006, 12.45 AM IST