David Haring

Kolkata police have imposed strict prohibitory orders around EVM strongrooms following Trinamool's vote tampering claims and clashes with BJP workers. Security has been heightened with additional forces and sealed roads. The Election Commission vows to punish any disruption, emphasizing robust security at all counting centers statewide to ensure a peaceful electoral process.

Debutante author Sarojesh Mukerjee's biography on David Hare, The Life and Times of David Hare: First Secular Educationist of India, was unveiled in Kolkata. The book discusses Hare's role in developing academic institutions, curriculum, and vernaculars, along with his social reforms and pastoral care. The importance of Hare's legacy in the education system of British India, the establishment of Hindu College, and the re-definition of academia are highlighted. The book also emphasizes Hare's kindness, generosity, and merit-based scholarships. It explores Hare's involvement in running six schools in Kolkata, setting up Medical College and Calcutta School Books Society, and his practice of hygiene. The biography discusses Hare's tragic death from cholera possibly contracted from a sick student he visited. It sheds light on Hare's opposition to Christian conversion and non-inclusive practices in the court of law, inspiring societal reformation.

Be careful while parking your car.Going by Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) records, several illegal car parking lots have sprung up on major roads of the city.

Indian theatre and British theatre don't quite enjoy the same status in their respective countries. Britain has had a long, uninterrupted theatrical tradition, whereas, India's playwriting was interrupted for a period of several centuries before being revived, ironically, by the arrival of the British.

To augment revenue from car parking and prevent the harassment of motorists at the hands of unscrupulous parking attendants, the civic body has decided to invite open tenders for managing parking zones across the city.

Last year, director Imtiaz Ali acquiesced to the Central Board of Film Certification’s demand when he blurred the ‘Free Tibet’ flags that featured briefly in his Rockstar.

The machines that will decide the fate of 42 seats in Bengal are under constant watch in strongrooms, but security levels seem to vary.

Coming under pressure from Trinamool Congress heavyweights, the civic body is all set to rescind the move to invite open tenders from professional bodies for managing the city parking lots.

Kate Winslet says that she is thrilled to be nominated in the Best Actress category for ‘The Reader’ at the prestigious Academy Awards.

Three persons, including two brothers, were arrested from Peyarabagan slums for sneaking into David Hare Training College on Ballygunge Circular Road early on Saturday and stealing and and vandalizing the server room. The accused were identified as Biswajit Mondal (24), his brother, Meghnath (22) and Ashok Sarkar (24). Cops seized stolen music equipment, projectors, servers, sound mixing systems and cameras from Sarkar.

Helen Fielding, the English novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones in the novel, 'Bridget Jones’s Diary'...

The actor will play the role of Prime Minister Dawn Ellison in the four-part series written by David Hare of "Collateral" fame.

Kate Winslet has revealed that she had enjoyed her affair with a man almost twice her age when she was 15.

When two of Britain’s top billed playwrights come together to talk shop, you know you have to get in on the act.

Actress Hilary Swank will play the lead role of historian Deborah E Lipstadt in the true-story drama, "Denial".

An unidentified gang sneaked into David Hare Training College on Ballygunge Circular Road early Saturday and reportedly vandalized multiple rooms. Though the apparent motive was theft, the institute authorities claimed that given the targeted destruction of the server room, it looked like a deliberate attempt to sabotage an online examination scheduled from October 1. The college authorities have, however, decided to go ahead with the exam with no change in the timetable.

City police will continue to keep tight security in the run-up to May 16, the poll result day.

Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank will face off with a man accused of Holocaust denial in an adaptation of Deborah Lipstadt's book "History On Trial".

Actor Daniel Craig is heading to the small screen for the TV adaptation of Jonathan Franzen's hit novel "Purity".

Tricky as it may be to install an authentic Mumbai slum in central London, National Theatre has managed it, and even been lauded for it.

Leafing through your favourite books at 'boi para' might soon be a different experience altogether.

If the government's plans materialize, the state may get two new universities solely to conduct BEd and law courses from the 2013 session.

Zuri, a Class VIII student of Airport English High School, and her elder sister were inspired to take up swimming by aunt Rita Ghosh, who represented Bengal several times in waterpolo.

The schedule of the five-day DSC Jaipur Literature festival from January 20-24, 2012 is finally frozen and up for you to decide on the sessions that would be of interest.

Award-winning British actress Diana Rigg, who played a Bond Girl and even starred in the original "The Avengers" television series, passes away at 82, her agent announced on Thursday.

All 240 self-financing BEd colleges, six government BEd colleges and around 24 government-aided BEd colleges under one roof.

Helen Mirren has mourned the loss of British stage and film actor Antony Sher, who recently died on Thursday at the age of 72. According to People magazine, the 76-year-old Oscar winner, in a statement, shared an emotional tribute to Sher on Friday, "I am devastated to hear of the death of Antony Sher. The theater has lost a brilliant light. "

It’s been making headlines since the last one week and will continue to do so for a few more days, or so it seems, but for me the one-and-a-half-day experience at DSC Jaipur Literature Festival 2012 was in one word, fruitful.