After a well-appreciated screening at the Toronto International Film Festival in September,, which was shot in Calcutta last year, will have its first show in town on November 7.Directed by Australian filmmaker Claire McCarthy and starring Radha Mitchell, Joel Edgerton and Isabel Lucas,was shot in some of Calcutta’s iconic landmarks with a team of Indian actors that included Samrat Chakrabarti, Tilottoma...
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Singur cannot have a factory for the Rs 1-lakh Nano, the city too will not have a showroom for the Rs 63 lakh-plus Jaguars and Land Rovers.Calcutta is not on Tata Motors’s marketing radar as it plans to open showrooms for its premium British brands in six cities — Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Ludhiana and Pune — next year.“We are not looking at Calcutta. Not now, not in the near future,” said...
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Low-cost airline AirAsia on Friday launched a daily flight between Calcutta and Kuala Lumpur and is planning to start flights to several destinations in Thailand.“Next year we are planning to launch flights from Calcutta to Bangkok and Phuket,” said Kathleen Tan, the regional head (commercial) of AirAsia.The Kuala Lumpur-based airline has nine hubs in south-east Asia, including Bangkok and Phuket.Tan...
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Calcutta figures high on the list of Asian cities most vulnerable to climate change in a report to be released on Thursday byMega-Stress for Mega-Cities: A Climate Vulnerability Ranking of Major Coastal Cities in Asiathat outlines the threat to Calcutta posed particularly by sea-level rise, storm surges and the inability to cope with these.“Because of Calcutta’s location and size it is particularly...
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central intelligence bureau has alerted the city police to the possibility of Pakistani terrorists heading for Kashmir via Calcutta after sneaking in through the Bangladesh border.“We were told that terrorists will use Calcutta to reach Jammu and Kashmir,” said an officer of the city police’s Special Task Force (STF), which is in charge of keeping a watch on terrorist activities.The alert followed...
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(Top) Paramita Kundu and Joydeep Karmakar take aim at North Calcutta Rifle Club; (below) Mampi Das trains for the upcoming Asian Airgun Championship. Pictures by Sanat Kumar SinhaParamita Kundu spends six days a week designing jewellery for a retail chain. But on Sunday, she refuses to budge from her shooting range at North Calcutta Rifle Club. The 38-year-old has won five gold medals at the 42nd West...
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Subroto Cup returned to Bengal after a gap of nine years when Sports Authority of India (SAI) Centre, Calcutta defeated Government Central High Secondary School , Mizoram 1-0 in the under-17 final at the Ambedkar Stadium on Monday.It was a double delight for Bengal football as Calcutta’s Sukanta Nagar Vidyanikatan won the under-14 title on Sunday. Rangadih School, Purulia was the last school from Bengal...
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Calcutta will play a part in the polo diplomacy at Washington in the summer of 2010 only because it happens to house the world’s oldest existing club for the sport. A 147-year-old club that is eyeing a comeback, after decades of being out of the race, its hopes riding on the city’s GeNext.The Calcutta Polo Club, established in 1862 by two British soldiers, Captain Robert Stewart and Major General Joe...
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administration has done precious little to protect our fast-disappearing built heritage, but the word “heritage” itself is bandied about by everybody today. Part of the credit for turning heritage into an everyday word goes to Nisith Ranjan Ray, historian and former curator of the Victoria Memorial Hall.Calcutta’s barefoot historian P.T. Nair and Amalendu De, former head of the history department at...
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Victor Banerjee takes a tram ride to taste the city’s street food with daughter Keya.rolls and more — will be the star attraction of a National Geographic film on Indian street food, to be aired in January.A team from Mumbai recently scoured the streets of Calcutta — from Dacres Lane to China Town, Babughat to Kumartuli — with actor Victor Banerjee and his younger daughter Keya savouring the sweet-hot-tangy...
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