Kolkata – or Calcutta, as some still prefer to call it – is a city that lives simultaneously in past and present. Established by India’s British colonial masters in the 18th century, it has since been ...

Traveling to India is the experience of a lifetime. The temples of Varanasi, the mountains of Kashmir, and the verdant landscapes of Kerala are famous worldwide for their irreplicable beauty. But one ...

Kolkata’s Halloween 2025 scene is bolder and far spookier than ever. The India’s cultural capital is ready to trade its ...

Kolkata will host the Kolkata Cyclothon 2025 on November 9, expecting over 3000 participants. Organised by Loha Foundation ...

From upstate New York in the 1980s, we took multiple airplanes across what felt like incalculable stretches of earth to reach my mother’s native city, and when, half a world later, we’d step out onto ...

The India-born writer’s book ‘The Guardian and a Thief’ is one of five works of fiction shortlisted for the US National Book Award, but she has already received recognition that could be even more luc ...

Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) is a relatively young city, an amalgamation of villages (including one named Kalikata) formed after the English landed on the swampy shores of the Ganges in Bengal in the ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — A fire tore through a hotel in the city of Kolkata in eastern India, killing at least 14 people, police said Wednesday. Senior police officer Manoj Kumar Verma told reporters that the ...

Kolkata Rain Live Updates: 10 dead, schools shut as rains lash West Bengal's capital ahead of Durga Puja festivities(AFP) Kolkata Rain Live Updates: Heavy rains lashed across the capital of West ...