South African legend Jacques Kallis has been named the head coach of Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), replacing Trevor Bayliss.

Chris Cairns allegedly told the New Zealand players that he attempted to recruit to his match-fixing operation that the Indian Cricket League (ICL) was powerless to stop their actions.

Margaret Atwood and Stephen Fry are among the authors who will be attending the Jaipur Literature Festival.

Sumit Sen, Editor of The Times of India, Kolkata, passed away on Sunday night after a brave battle with cancer. He was 60.

Football legend Pele is scheduled to visit Kolkata as a special ambassador for an international football tournament next month.

Indian police claim rescue of a Bangladeshi teenage girl from human traffickers in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal last week, detain two.

But it does not need Economist Intelligence Unit’s ranking for anybody to know that Dhaka has been rotting, stinking and becoming more terrible to live in every year.

A journalist of an Indian Bangla daily goes missing near his home in Alipurduar district of West Bengal.

Alleging murder, a man files a complaint with police in Kolkata over his dead cat.

Residents of a village in West Bengal have performed Eid prayers before a “life size” replica of the historic Red Fort of New Delhi.

Hospital nurse cuts off a finger of newborn child in a government hospital of Dinajpur in West Bengal of India.

Former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly celebrates his birthday with fans.

Sister Nirmala, the nun who succeeded Mother Teresa as the head of a charity in the Indian city of Kolkata (Calcutta) dies aged 81.

The inaugural run of the historic Kolkata Dhaka Agartala bus route turns nightmarish when the bus could not even trundle out of Nabanna from where Chief Minster Mamata Banerjee was to flag it off in the presence of the deputy high commissioner of Bangladesh Zokey Ahad.

Legendary film director Satyajit Ray's wife Bijoya Ray passes away at a nursing home in Kolkata.

In a milestone cross-border transport service between Bangladesh and India, trial run of Kolkata-Dhaka-Agartala bus service has kicked off.

All players in the Indian cricket team will have to undergo a fitness test on June 06 at Kolkata before leaving for Bangladesh to play a Test and three one-day international matches.

A new traffic signal in Dhaka proves to be a disaster as the capital experiences a total breakdown of traffic control this week.

Kolkata, Bangalore and Mumbai share honours as students registered all time high scores in the class X and XII results conducted by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, led by a Kolkata boy who had a near-perfect 99.75 percent in the class XII exam.

Bangladesh’s top allrounder Shakib Al Hasan could not give his best with the bat and ball for Kolkata Knight Riders after playing only four matches in IPL 2015.