West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced that the state has emerged as a "powerhouse of growth and opportunity," ...

Born Henri Groues, the clergyman Abbe Pierre was widely admired as a friend to the poverty-stricken and homeless ... Dozens of people have made accusations of sexual abuse against the French ...

A. Ramachandran's early works reflected engagement with urban anxiety and socio-political unrest. He later realised that art ...

In India, many kids who work in retail markets have good math skills: They can quickly perform a range of calculations to complete transactions. But as a new study shows, these kids often perform ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted in Parliament on Tuesday that his government has succeeded in lifting 25 crore people out of poverty in the last 10 years, provided tap water to 16 crore homes ...

Amidst the chaos, Instagram creator Roshni Bhattacharya aka @noodledoodlebyrb shares a hilariously accurate post, summarising the different types of people we spot at the International Kolkata Book ...

Talking about the daily hardships of street children, the Bengali film made it to the 97th Academy Awards’ Reminder List Born and raised in south Kolkata, Indira Dhar moved to Mumbai after marriage ...

President Trump has recently stated that the people of Gaza can be transferred to either Egypt or Jordan amid the destruction of the coastal sliver. Last week, Trump suggested cleaning out the ...

They found that the overall poverty rate among trans people stood at 29.4 percent — nearly twice the 15.7 percent poverty rate among cisgender straight people. Racial and gender disparities further ...

Enter any time in Asia/Kolkata and find the corresponding asia/kabul time using this Time Calculator. Asia/Kolkata is a UTC +05:30 timezone offset where as India Standard Time (IST) is a UTC +5:30 ...

Raghabendra Chattopadhyay of the Indian Institute of Management in Kolkata; Duflo, the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT; Alejandro J. Ganimian, a ...