Pallab Bhattacharya

In an austerity measure, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has decided to halve the prize money for the champions and runners up of this year’s Indian Premier League competition beginning on March 29.

India finally issued a notification yesterday announcing the lifting of a five-month-old ban on onion export with effect from March 15.

Signs of normalcy returned to riot-hit areas of northeast Delhi yesterday with people venturing out of their homes to buy groceries and medicines from a few shops that were opened amid intensified patrolling by security personnel.

India’s Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has not yet issued any notification on lifting of the ban on general export of onion.

Popular actor Mosharraf Karim is set to play the role of the protagonist opposite actor and Trinamool Congress lawmaker Nusrat Jahan in the Kolkata-based film, Dictionary. West Bengal Science and Technology Minister Bratya Basu is the director of the film.

Australian batsman David Warner was reinstated as captain of the of IPL franchise Sunrisers Hyderabad yesterday for the upcoming season starting March 29, two years after he had to quit in the wake of ball-tampering row.

The recent economic slide notwithstanding, India is seen by the United States as the anchor of regional economic and security cooperation not only in South Asia but beyond it.

India yesterday decided to lift the ban on onion export to protect the interests of its farmers as prices in the domestic market are expected to fall sharply thanks to the bumper rabi crop.

Nine months after its meltdown in the national elections, India’s main opposition the Congress Party led by Sonia Gandhi, finds itself in fresh in-house churnings over the issue of top leadership.

Tapas Pal, celebrated film actor and former lawmaker of West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress, passed away in Mumbai, due to a cardiac arrest at the age of 61, according to reports.

The Indian Supreme Court’s order on February 13—making it mandatory for political parties to put on public domains like Facebook and Twitter the criminal cases that have been lodged against their candidates contesting elections, and to justify the giving of nominations to them once again—has moved the spotlight onto a major area of concern in the country’s electoral democracy: the growing criminalisation of politics.

It was billed as a battle between the politics of welfare and the politics of strident nationalism centred on a changed citizenship law, which critics see as divisive. In the end, the former emerged victorious. That is how the results of the Delhi legislative assembly election turned out to be.

Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal have agreed on the need to expeditiously finalise passenger and cargo protocols for implementation of the agreement to regulate the movement of passenger, personal and goods vehicles among the four countries.

The annual budget of a country is always accompanied by a build-up of expectations and suspense among the people.

A movement in support of a global campaign to restore the ancestral houses of legendary film directors Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen in Bangladesh, has started.

The signing of the tripartite peace agreement among different factions of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), the Indian government and the Assam authorities on January 28 has set the stage for an end to one of the longest-running insurgencies in the northeastern state of India.

The political standoff between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and those in opposition of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is set to intensify further in the coming weeks.

Kolkata is often described as a city of protests. Street marches against the amended citizenship law and proposed NRC almost every day for the last month have helped burnish that image of Kolkata.

Commerce secretaries of Bangladesh and India yesterday agreed to advance discussions on border haats and the proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), a mega trade deal between the two countries, during the Bangladesh-India CEO Forum in New Delhi yesterday.

Bangladesh is likely to decline India’s repeated pleas to jump start onion exports as the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh currently has enough stock of it and the new variety of the tuber is expected to reach domestic market soon.