Mrinal Das

As Kolkata's summer arrives, terrariums are gaining popularity as a low-effort way to bring greenery indoors. These miniature, self-contained ecosystems offer a calming, therapeutic crafting experience, fitting perfectly into urban apartment living. They are also a sustainable choice, utilizing repurposed materials and thriving in the city's humid climate.

A Tripura State Rifles (TSR) jawan killed himself after shooting his girlfriend on Monday night in Durjoynagar area of Agartala.Tripura police recovered their bullet-riddled bodies after midnight.

Bijpur (North 24-Parganas) A 14-year-old-girl was slashed with a razor on a street in Bijpur, some 40km from Kolkata, for trying to fight off a gang of molesters on Sunday evening.

On his birth anniversary on May 14, the doyen of Bengali cinema, Mrinal Sen’s fans have some welcome news: the biopic on Mrinal Sen being directed by Srijit Mukherjee is almost complete.

This film is a psychological thrilling ride which takes you to the darkest corners of your mind, the shut down alleys of your soul and the graveyard of your heart.

Even with Ulfa hardliner Paresh Baruah remaining as elusive as ever, Prodyut Kumar Deka's is bringing the militant chief's alter ego to the silver screen in his latest Assamese film 'Samiran Barua Ahi Ase'.

LUCKNOW: The 'bandho' movement, aimed at creating environment awareness among masses, was launched at Lucknow zoo on Monday. People tied 'rakhis' to trees and took a pledge to protect them.

Young filmmaker Prodyut Kumar Deka has announced that he would make a new film on psychology of children in 2012.

Photographer Buddhadeb Das and teacher mrinal das have embarked on a 566km padyatra from Kolkata to Cuttack, commemorating the 125th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose as well as the return of Swami Vivekananda to India.

Piyush Chatterjee-directed short film 'Phobia' follows fear in every human being from different situations. It's just been released on YouTube and getting a lot of appreciation from the audience.

What is your biggest fear? Snakes? Height? Water? Do you experience extreme frights and aversions to an object or a situation, exposure to which can cause panic and paranoia? If you resonate with this, you’re not alone. Millions of people across the world harbour phobias of various kinds. And as it turns out, many films have tapped into this fear.

KOLKATA: While Trinamul may be satisfied, the new state committee of the BJP, announced in Kolkata on Thursday, does not augur well for party MP Tapan Sikdar and his followers.

Veteran actress Gita Sen, who, apart from working in husband Mrinal Sen’s movies, had also featured in Ritwick Ghatak ‘Nagarik’ and Shyam Benegal’s ‘Arohan’, passed away at her residence in Kolkata on Monday. She was 86 and is survived by her husband and son Kunal.

This is the latest in a string of bloody incidents on the cricket pitch that have claimed four lives in a month.

After a crowded weekend, truncated services of East-West Metro saw a thinner crowd on the first day of the week. While the number of joyriders, who had kept trains full since the commencement of the service on February 14, came down sharply.

A 33-year-old man from Murshidabad has turned out to be the first patient to undergo a heart transplant under Swasthya Sathi — the state government’s free health insurance scheme that provides an annual coverage of Rs 5 lakh each — at a city private hospital on July 10.

KOLKATA: Polls in 13 municipalities across West Bengal were held on Sunday amid the Opposition calling it a 'mockery of democracy' by the CPM election machinery and CPM state secretary Anil Biswas congratulating voters on 'peaceful polls and reaffirmation of their faiths' in the ruling Left Front.

Jolly Bose played the part of a senior executive pretty well something which helped her dupe youths with false job promises, say police.

Six actresses, who worked with Mrinal Sen, share the director's quirky traits