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In a historic electoral upset, the BJP has secured its first-ever assembly election victory in West Bengal, unseating Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee after 15 years. The results, reflecting a record 92.47% voter turnout, saw the BJP's "Bhoy out, Bharosa in" slogan resonate strongly, surpassing the TMC's "Maa maati manush" narrative.

Pavements relaid, new pedestrian crossover in place, fresh signage installed, permanent deployment of cops done and last mile connectivity issues taken care of — teething troubles that had been bothering Metro passengers coming to Sector V from Sealdah station since last week reduced

Two of the city’s biggest app-cab companies have claimed there has been a 60% decrease in complaints from passengers over drivers’ refusal to switch on ACs following corrective measures taken by the firms.

Oxford Bookstore and The Long Night of LiteratureS organized a literary forum titled "Pages That Connect: Literary Influences and Contemporary Dialogues between Europe and India" at the Embassy of the Czech Republic in New Delhi recently. Here's what happened at literary evening.

Singer Silajit Majumdar and actress Sreelekha Mitra are set to share the screen for the first time in Angshuman Banerjee’s erotic thriller ‘12 seconds’.

Despite being away from Kolkata for a while, Majumdar loves to call himself a "city boy", a claim pretty evident from the fact that all his novels are set here.

The plot follows energetic, young, and vibrant detective Saikat Choudhury who succeeds senior detective Kunaljit after his retirement. He gets his first case—to solve a murder mystery. On the day of Navami (the 9th day of Bengal’s famous Durga Puja festival), Police officer Mr. Bannerjee visits Saikat’s house, in order to save his brother Koushik from getting jailed.

The press meet of Sajarur Kanta saw an excited cast and crew speak about their experiences shooting for the film.

Liberal Arts education initiates multi-disciplinary ways of thinking, says Professor and author saikat majumdar

Smartya Majumdar’s latest single ‘Kichu Kichu Kotha’ is a memoir of heartbreak, passion and memories of forgotten love.

The moment the word theatre is uttered, quintessential Kolkata almost naturally thinks of the city’s group theatre movement and the doyens who led it.

The principal of an English medium school who was accused of molesting a Class-XII student surrendered before the Alipore court on Wednesday.

Several boarders at the JU boys' main hostel - both current and former students - had tried to wash bloodstains off the spot where a first-year student had landed, presumably after a fall from the hostel balcony, late on August 9, hours before he died in hospital the following day, the university's probe panel has said in its report.

The first of its kind Readers’ and Writers’ Club was recently launched by writer Nabaneeta Deb Sen at Creative Studio, Ballygunj along with a bevy of distinguished city based writers, artists, singer-song writers, theatre personalities and booklovers.