Organiser Satadru Dutta has been detained over mismanagement after Kolkata's Salt Lake stadium chaos. Lionel Messi’s GOAT India Tour 2025, a three-day fan-focused visit, officially started in Kolkata on 13 December.

The Sept. 5 feast of St. Teresa of Kolkata — better known as Mother Teresa — was celebrated in a simple and somber manner at the Missionaries of Charity motherhouse in Kolkata, India, with hundreds of Christians and non-Christians thronging to her tomb ...

KOLKATA, India — At least 14 people, including two children, died in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata late Tuesday when a fire blazed through a six-story hotel in a congested neighborhood, authorities said. The fire was reported around 8:15 p.m ...

When I moved from California to Calcutta in 2011, I would joke that I had merely exchanged one Cal for another. It was not technically true. Calcutta, the bustling metropolis where I was born, once the First City of the British Raj, had already ...

Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) is a relatively young city, an amalgamation of villages (including one named Kalikata) formed after the English landed on the swampy shores of the Ganges in Bengal in the late 17th century. By the turn of the 19th century, the ...

Engineers and engineering students attend a protest against the rape and killing of a trainee doctor at a government hospital, in Kolkata, India, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Bikas Das The gruesome rape and murder of a 31-year-old resident ...

Global partnerships, cutting-edge programmes and a modernised campus are enabling IIM Calcutta to build a leadership pipeline for rapidly changing markets

In 1911, the British announced at the Delhi Durbar that India’s capital would shift from Calcutta (Kolkata) to Delhi, a city steeped in centuries of Mughal history. The move reflected rising nationalist unrest in Bengal during the Independence movement,