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New Bengal

For decades, West Bengal has lived on memory. The state that once led India in commerce, finance, manufacturing and intellectual life slowly ceded ground to Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, and even neighbouring Bangladesh in several labour-intensive sectors.

Ageing Alone

India is quietly approaching a demographic turning point that its political vocabulary has yet to fully acknowledge.

Guides, photographers at Konark UNESCO site must have ASI licence: HC

The Orissa High Court, refusing to interfere in the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, has issued direction saying those who "seek to operate as photographers or guides in Archeological Survey of India (ASI) protected monuments are liable to obtain licence from the ASI after participating in the prescribed selection process”.