Lionel Messi fans have caused chaos in Kolkata after the football legend appeared at a stadium on the first day of his Indian tour. Seats were ripped up, the stage was trashed and people invaded the pitch after an event that was abandoned after about 20 minutes. Pictures also show a Messi billboard hanging precariously from an upper tier and people climbing the fences. Image: Pic: Reuters Image: P...

On Sept. 23, days before Durga Puja, the biggest annual carnival for Bengalis, the city of Kolkata experienced a shocking cloudburst. In just a few hours, parts of West Bengal’s capital saw nearly a foot of rainfall, which led to flash floods and the death of at least 12 people. Cars and buses floated on arterial roads as residents drained buckets of water from their houses. Homeless people scramb...

NEW DELHI -- A fire tore through a hotel in the city of Kolkata in eastern India, killing at least 14 people, police said Wednesday. Senior police officer Manoj Kumar Verma told reporters that the fire broke out Tuesday evening at the Rituraj Hotel in central Kolkata and was doused after an effort that took six fire engines. The cause of the fire was not immediately clear. Photos and videos carrie...

In a narrow lane in Kolkata, West Bengal, Ankit Ghosh paused for a moment to take this photo. Ghosh was among crowds attending Vijaya Dashami, the last day of the Durga Puja, a festival he describes as “cultural potpourri”. He says, “It’s celebrated all across India, but there is no other place to experience it better than West Bengal. As this was the grand finale, the atmosphere was one of joy, p...

Sayan Bose had travelled two hours from his home in Kolkata, India, for a day of documentary photography in Sangrampur, West Bengal. “I was roaming around the village, capturing the local people’s lifestyle, asking about their daily lives and jobs and struggles,” Bose says. “I got talking to a 17-year-old called Ariful Alam. He was a farmer at a large sunflower garden. He was youthful and fun-lovi...

The life imprisonment sentence imposed on the sole suspect in the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in the Indian city of Kolkata has disappointed analysts who have questioned the case and called for improvements in the healthcare industry. Advertisement They say other individuals apart from convicted hospital volunteer worker Sanjay Roy should have been questioned and that the medical fraternit...

An Indian police volunteer has been sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the hospital where she worked in Kolkata, a crime that sparked nationwide protests and widespread hospital strikes last year. The court rejected demands for the death penalty, saying it was not a “rarest-of-rare” crime. The woman’s body was found in a classroom at the state-run RG Kar medi...

An Indian police volunteer was convicted on Saturday of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at a hospital in the eastern city Kolkata, in the speedy trial of a crime that sparked national outrage over a lack of safety for women. Advertisement The woman’s body was found in a classroom at the state-run R G Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9. Other doctors stayed off work for weeks to de...

This month, we’re hunkering down with novels about homes and the family dramas that unfold within them, from a luxury bungalow in the Catskills to a historic mansion in Kolkata. Rental House: A Novel Weike Wang (Riverhead Books, 224 pp., $28, December 2024) The book cover for Rental House Weike Wang’s third book, Rental House, is a novel of contrasts. The married couple at its heart comes from two...

The Kolkata case is now beginning to resemble the infamous Nirbhaya case of December 2012, which involved the gang rape and fatal assault of a physiotherapy intern. The incident triggered massive nationwide protests, eventually bringing down the ruling national coalition led by the Congress Party. Banerjee is the leader of the All India Trinamool Congress Party (AITC), which controls the governmen...

The father of the trainee doctor murdered during a rest break at a Kolkata hospital has spoken of his daughter’s love of medicine and the way her family had worked to support her vocation. “We are a poor family and we raised her with a lot of hardship. She worked extremely hard to become a doctor. All she did was study, study, study,” he told the Guardian by telephone. “All our dreams have been sh...

A national taskforce of doctors has been set up by India's top court to look at how medical professionals can be protected following the rape and murder of a trainee female doctor in Kolkata. The Supreme Court has asked the panel to come up with guidelines for ensuring the safety of medical professionals and healthcare workers across the country. The rape and murder of the 31-year-old earlier this...

Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya of the Kolkata High Court asked government counsel to rename the pair on Thursday. “These names should be avoided and discontinued to avoid unnecessary controversy,” he said from the bench, according to the Hindustan Times newspaper. Government counsel Joyjit Choudhury told the judge that the state was “already thinking of renaming” the pair. 02:02 Uproar in India in...

“Vidi un’immagine della dea Kali con la lingua fuori e quella lingua divenne il logo dei Rolling Stones”: lo ha detto Mick Jagger durante una visita a Kolkata, in India. Il frontman, tornato nella capitale del Bengala Occidentale dopo dieci anni su invito di alcuni amici, ha raccontato che fu il fratello maggiore, che nel 1969 aveva già fatto vari viaggi in India, a mostrargli quell’immagine della...

BTS fans in India known as desimys do whatever they can to promote the boys. The kings of K-Pop are going on their mandatory military duty. While Seokjin and Jung Hoseok aka J-Hope have already left, the rest are expected to leave later in 2023. The septet has plans to get together as a group by middle or end of 2025. It will be possible only if everyone completes military service on time. Jungkoo...

До обращения за медицинской помощью 45-летний житель Колкаты по имени Арнаб Мукхерджи в течение трех месяцев страдал от сильных болей в животе. Однако когда в августе 2021 года он все-таки пришел в местную больницу, врачи не смогли поначалу обнаружить причину болей, сообщает The Daily Mail. Только после серии обследований Мукхерджи, размер живота которого за это время вырос в четыре раза, смогли п...

Житель индийского города Калькутта (Колката), 39-летний Гаурав Бинани рассказал, как у него получилось похудеть на 22 килограмма за 12 месяцев, сообщает «Лента.ру» со ссылкой на местное издание. Гаурав Бинани весил 80 килограммов при росте 160 сантиметров. Он решил сбросить вес после того, как решил заняться курсами самообороны и на первом же занятии понял, что ему тяжело тренироваться наравне с о...

Полицейское руководство индийского округа Мальда (Malda) вычло часть зарплаты у своего сотрудника Сунила Кумара (Sunil Kumar) за то, что он позволил своей караульной собаке вступить в связь с дворнягой и забеременеть, сообщает Reuters. Собака породы лабрадор родила десятерых щенков, однако долгое время не могла исполнять своих должностных обязанностей по охране сталелитейного завода в Мальде. Кром...