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Just before the actors of TreeHat took the stage to present Anuvab Pal’s 1-888-Dial-India to a packed auditorium on Thursday evening, apprehensions remained about whether the play would be too bold for the Kolkata audience. Liberal use of sexual puns and innuendos in the play had left the TreeHat actors a little confused about whether More >

Actor Rahul Bose and B-town bombshell Celina Jaitley sizzled the ramp as the duo played showstoppers for a promotional fashion event in Kolkata on Thursday night. The Kolkata leg of the Signature 7 Sensations Fashion Tour – a 7-city fashion fest,

A ‘swayamvar’ in front of millions, a public break-up and then a press-conference for a hasty patch-up. Rahul Mahajan and Dimpy Ganguly’s married life is getting rather too public for comfort. The couple may have called a truce, but the images of Dimpy walking out of the Mahajan home, claiming physical and emotional abuse by More >

The West Bengal Petroleum Dealers’ Association (WBPDA) called for a 24-hour strike here on Friday to protest the ‘irrational’ policies of the major oil companies in the country. Around 2,000 petrol pump dealers took part in the strike, as the WBPDA claimed that despite paying full prices for petroleum products, the oil companies supply less More >

Swine flu has hit Kolkata yet again, this time probably in a mutated form. Twelve patients have tested positive for the H1N1 virus in the last 11 days, including minister Nandagopal Bhattacharya. Three tested positive on Thursday itself. A 25-year-old man, Manoj Kriplani, has also tested positive. A patient of chronic renal failure, he returned More >

They are barely 18 years old, but have already achieved immortality. Anish Mukherjee and Debarghya Sarkar, who passed out of South Point High School this year, now have two minor planets named after them. The celestial honour was bestowed on them by the Massachussetts Institute of Technology and Lincoln Laboratory of the US. The honour More >

Raising concerns over violence in children, it has emerged that two teenage boys molested and strangled a five-year-old girl to death. The boys aged 12 and 14 molested, battered, strangled and killed five-year-old Jhumjhum Das on the terrace of a 10-storied building at Turfview, Hastings, on Tuesday, Jun 29 evening, reported a leading national daily. More >

s the Soccer World Cup mania grips fans all over the world, daughters of sex workers of Kolkata are keen to play the sport. Fifteen-year-old Tulsi Sardar, daugher of a sex worker, looks up to Brazilian football star Ronaldo as her idol and enjoys playing football.

As soccer crazy Kolkata gets engulfed in the World Cup fever, sculptors here are busy making statues of football stars like Diego Maradona, Lionel Messi and Kaka. “We are receiving orders for statues of Kaka, Maradona and Messi,” said a sculptor from Kumortuli standing beside a Messi statue made by him. Kumortuli is a potters’ More >

Football lovers in Kolkata celebrated the world’s biggest football event at Kalighat to mark the beginning of the World Cup. India, ranked 133rd in the world, has never come close to qualifying for the World Cup, but that does not seem to have dampened the enthusiasm of the fans for the month-long tournament.