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It was a strange move when Imran Khan press conference was blacked out at the Kolkata Book Fair for about a minute as the Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician fielded a volley of blistering questions by journalists. Apparently, the session which lasted for about fifty minutes and had a five minutes presser, was blacked out by the organisers More >

The 36th Kolkata International Book Fair began on Tuesday. It will continue till the 5th of next month. The theme of this year’s Book Fair is ‘Italy`. The West Bengal Chief Minister Ms. Mamata Banerjee and noted Italian writer and journalist Beppe Severnyni jointly inaugurated the Book Fair.

The city narrowly escaped a disaster of gigantic proportions on Tuesday evening when a concerted effort by firemen and local residents stopped a petrol pump blaze from reaching the reservoir. An explosion could have caused enormous casualties in the Camac Street area. Residents of nearby apartments rushed out of their homes with portable fire extinguishers More >

Smitten by the national rage Kolaveri Di sung by south Indian film star Dhanush, the Kolkata traffic police is literally humming Why this herogiri di? these days, urging errant bikers to wear helmets.

A rubber factory in the Tiljala area of the city was gutted in a massive fire that broke out on Monday night and kept smouldering till late in the evening on Tuesday. The fire was detected at the factory housed in a three-storied building at about11 pm on Monday. Twenty fire tenders were pressed into More >

Management of government and private hospitals in the city seem not to have learnt any lesson from the dreaded fire at the Kolkata hospital, which caused a large number of human casualties. During a surprise check by fire and emergency services wing of the Chandigarh municipal corporation on Monday, authorities came across three city hospitals More >

Indian politicians are a bit too sensitive on how they’re portrayed online. Why else would government agencies inundate Google – used by an estimated 100 million people in India – with requests to remove content, especially those showing political leaders in bad light and, now, even insist on pre-screening of content uploaded online. Telecom and More >

The seat has fallen vacant following Mamata Banerjee’s resignation as MP after she became West Bengal Chief Minister. There are five candidates contesting in the by-election. The main fight is between CPI-M’s Ritabrata Banerjee and Trinamool Congress’s Subrata Bakshi. Besides, there are three independent candidates. Polling will be from 8am to 5pm. Total no. of More >