The Latest Breaking News from Kolkata

What makes cities work? It is not the historic monuments or grand architecture but something far more prosaic.

Colonial planning was about attracting people to Kolkata, post-colonial planning is more about crisis management.

French writer Dominique Lapierre has died at age 91

A delegation of 24 high-ranking Bhutanese monks arrived in Kolkata Tuesday on a tour of various Buddhist holy sites in India. Read on for details:

Pat Cummins will skip next year's $1.3 million IPL payday, prioritising an international schedule that includes up to 106 days of cricket for Australia.

As the Cuban missile crisis gripped the world’s attention 60 years ago, a less remembered conflict broke out high in the mountain passes of the Himalayas. Tensions had been mounting for months on the border between India and China and on October 20 the Chinese People’s Liberation Army attacked Indian…

The places searched included residential and office premises of a Kolkata-based businessman Amit Agrawal and several others, sources said. Read on for details:

The four students and their lecturer are going to Kolkata on November 26 to help do eye exams

There was stone pelting, and according to locals, crude bombs were hurled late on Sunday evening