Dipawali Mitra & AgenciesKolkata/New Delhi: The three minority MPs from Murshidabad now with Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI), who have refused to be a part of BJP or NDA bloc, will meet PM Narendra Modi over breakfast on Friday.On Thursday, Abu Taher Khan, Khalilur Rahaman and Yusuf Pathan met Union home minister Amit Shah,…
Kolkata: Wading into the escalating controversy over remarks made about Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose by Rajya Sabha MP Ananta Maharaj, veteran BJP neta Tathagata Roy has launched an attack on his own party’s Bengal leadership. Questioning whether BJP’s central leadership was even aware of the matter, Roy warned that continuous insults to one of Bengal’s…
Kolkata: Mysuru-based NR Group, the maker of Cycle Pure Agarbathi, is looking to partner with more Durga Puja pandals across Kolkata and its suburbs this year. The brand was a usual sight across hoardings at puja pandals in the city, but has seen a reduction in brand presence since Covid. That is set to change….
Arup Das was caught in Assam while boarding a train to Delhi Kolkata: CBI arrested absconding suspect Arup Das on Thursday in connection with the 2021 murder of BJP activist Abhijit Sarkar during post-poll violence in Kolkata’s Kankurgachi area.Das was caught in Assam while boarding a train to Delhi. Officials said he had been hiding…
Photo for representative purposes Kolkata: Emami Agrotech Limited (EAL), the branded foods arm of the Rs 30,000-crore Emami Group, is entering India’s snack market. EAL has launched a new brand, WeMe, to tap into the high-margin snacking segment, estimated at Rs 1 lakh crore and growing at a 10% CAGR.Emami Group director Aditya Agarwal said…
A forest stretch in purulia Kolkata: The rich yet largely undocumented landscapes of Garhpanchokot in Purulia will become the centre of a unique biodiversity documentation initiative as Naturemates Nature Club hosts the 3rd Biodiversity Meet from Sept 11 to Sept 13. The event aims to bring together naturalists, researchers and local communities to identify, document…
There was something deliciously familiar in the recent post by Padma Lakshmi from a dhaba somewhere between Delhi and Jaipur. While tucking into a plate of chaat and a vegetable paratha, the former supermodel, food writer, and TV host rated the latter as “highly mediocre.” It was the pickle, she said, that saved the day….
Have you noticed how a simple conversation about coffee can turn into a highly political, complex and polarising debate? Something that will test your understanding of geopolitics, environmental stress, economics, even gut health and cholesterol.There was a time when a cup of coffee usually came with three possibilities: black, cappuccino or filter kaapi. But clearly,…
At a super chic cafe somewhere in Bandra, we walked in for a late-ish breakfast and stayed until late lunch. I was tempted to blame it on tardy service, but a quick glance around revealed that every other table had been occupied for hours. And no one was complaining.We were all grazing on the usual…
The other day, over some spaghetti aglio olio brightened with lemon zest and a light-as-air lemon cake baked by a friend, we got talking about the one ingredient that has transformed his kitchen: GI-tagged Italian lemons. Evidently, they have become something of a culinary flex for adventurous home chefs, restaurateurs, bakers and mixologists serving spritzy…
