Amlan Ganguly is a visionary. This lawyer-turned-community activist is not only changing a neighborhood, but also changing the way its youngest residents envision their lives. In this character-driven ...

Kolkata: Six persons were arrested from Daspara slum adjoining condo complex Ekta Flora in Tangra for terrorising 452 ...

She had done so in her home in the "bustees" -- the dense Calcutta slums -- while Rosalie Giffoniello and I sat on two plastic chairs, the only chairs in the room. The room was no more than eight feet ...

Kolkata: A major fire broke out in a slum area on the eastern outskirts of Kolkata on Friday. No casualty was reported in incident the incident so far. According to fire department sources, at least ...

Kolkata: More than 450 families and over 2,500 residents of a decade-and-a-half-old condo housing have been living in fear ...

Residents of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) have criticised a sequence in The Avengers that features the city's slums. In the film, The Hulk's alter ego Dr. Bruce Banner, played by Mark Ruffalo, is seen ...

The opening scenes of "The Avengers" -- showing Hulk's alter ego Dr. Bruce Banner in hiding in Kolkata's slums helping cure lepers -- has faced some criticism in India. “Kolkata has a rich culture and ...