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The likely candidate of the Congress for Virudhunagar Parliamentary constituency, B. Manicka Tagore, who is also the sitting MP, flayed the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) government for its attempt to release the convicts in ...

: A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Mahatma Gandhi Institute (MGI)/ Rabindranath Tagore Institute (RTI), and the Institute of Asian Studies (IAS), Chennai, India, aiming to strengthen the skills and capabilities of academics of the ...

Caption: Retired ADGP K.V. Ravindranath Tagore is seen addressing the students at Senate Bhavan in Manasagangotri this morning. Mysore, Feb. 20- A two-day workshop on skill development to face competitive exams, organised by the Centre for ...

Illustration: Jayachandran/Mint The ongoing election campaigns have been remarkably nasty. Narendra Modi has taunted the Gandhi family for several months now. Rahul Gandhi has used another of his weak metaphors to dismiss the Gujarat model as ...

Hyderabad: It is not often that Indian poets receive international honours. The first one to be recognised worldwide for his poetic excellence (in Sanskrit) may have been Kalidasa while the first Indian to get the Nobel Prize in Literature was the ...

Ganesh Pyne, who rendered dark, brooding, soulful and unsettling images, came to be known as an artist’s artist, remembers Giridhar Khasnis. Ganesh Pyne passed away on March 12, 2013 at a Kolkata hospital where he was admitted following a ...

A photograph of a pensive Mahatma Gandhi seated at Keoratala to oversee Chittaranjan Das's cremation, a recording of Ho Chi Minh's speech during his visit to Calcutta, a report on how not a single house in town lit a Diwali lamp in 1930 to protest ...

Strange though it may sound, the dance tradition prevalent in the monasteries of Majuli Island on the banks of River Brahmaputra in Assam was not known as classical dance till the year 2000. It was during the tenure of the great musician Bhupen ...

This Korean in Calcutta has embraced the best of both worlds. Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, Ju Yeon Seo brought to the city its only authentic Korean restaurant. Seo moved to Calcutta with her husband, who is in the electronics trade and ...