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KOLKATA TAXI RETIREMENT
Six decades on, the trip ends for Mumbai's iconic 'Premier Padmini' taxisA transport department official said the last Premier Padmini was registered as a black-and-yellow taxi at the Tardeo RTO, which has jurisd...
29 Oct, 2023, 09.41 PM IST
Kolkata’s ‘Fairy Tale’ Trams, once essential, are now a neglected relicIn recent years, hit by natural disasters and official neglect, the city’s tram system has become little more than a nostalgia ride, its pa...
03 Sep, 2021, 10.18 AM IST
View: The battle to win Bengal has become a bloody conflictPolitical violence has been a feature of West Bengal politics for the past 50 years.
13 Dec, 2020, 10.35 AM IST
'It seems there was a war': Fiercest cyclone in 100 years overwhelms BengalBuses and taxis crashed against each other, small fishing boats turned turtle and grounded planes shook at the inundated Kolkata airport as...
21 May, 2020, 07.54 PM IST
Stories of extraordinary kindness at the times of unprecedented Covid-19 crisesSince the lockdown brought all activities to a halt, there have been several horror stories of people struggling to find even a morsel of f...
18 Apr, 2020, 11.01 PM IST
Decoded: The concerns and aspirations of the urban electorate in seven Indian citiesAs urban constituencies have risen in importance, parties use different strategies to appeal to these voters.
14 Apr, 2019, 09.51 AM IST
Mughalsarai renaming loss of railway heritage, erasure of public memory: ExpertsThe Uttar Pradesh government recently issued a notification saying the station, a major railway junction in northern India on the Delhi-How...
10 Jun, 2018, 01.04 PM IST
Digital payments may not be as pervasive as believed post DeMoCash continues to be the preferred mode of payments… more so in rural India. This may be because digital payments have not reached smaller ...
24 Jan, 2018, 01.23 PM IST
Global Indian Women: Top 20 India-born & globally successful women from business and artsAn ET Magazine-MavenMagnet study on global women achievers of Indian origin in business and the arts who are creating the biggest buzz onli...
05 Jan, 2015, 09.23 AM IST
2014: A politically eventful year for IndiaThe states of Jharkahand, Maharashtra and Haryana witnessed a regime change and Jammu and Kashmir saw a hung Parliament in the recent elect...
31 Dec, 2014, 12.23 PM IST