Keeping kids safe: Schools must get basics right

The most recent instance was the horrifying Ryan School incident in Gurgaon when a Class 2 boy was found in the toilet with a slit throat.

30 Oct 2017 12:13 AM

A ‘bridge’ to link high school & varsity helps

The learning outcomes of this entire exercise were abundantly clear.

22 Sep 2017 1:52 AM

Inflated marks: 100% and still galloping

The debate over grades, marks and points is definitely over — high marks are here to stay.

11 Jul 2017 6:41 AM

Libraries will never be obsolete

The way the world is headed and in view of the clash of religions, we need to protect our civilisation.

19 May 2017 12:30 AM

Some leaders, at least, make right noises

Yogi Adityanath has said many other curious things, but in this case he deserves to be supported.

28 Apr 2017 5:43 AM

One step forward, two steps back

It is our children who usually pay the price for the vagaries of politics.

07 Apr 2017 2:26 AM

It’s time we let our kids ‘tinker’

Tinkering, which is defined as an attempt to repair or improve something, is the most natural way of learning.

23 Jan 2017 4:23 AM

Mother House in Kolkata a ‘mini-Vatican’

The Mother House in Kolkata turned into a mini Vatican City on Sunday after Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, in Vatican City.

05 Sep 2016 7:02 AM

CPM rules out apology for land acquisition in Singur

Refusing to accept the Supreme Court verdict that the land acquisition in Singur was “illegal”, CPI(M) state secretary Surjya Kanta Mishra on Wednesday contested that the land was acquired as per the

01 Sep 2016 2:06 AM

6.8-quake strikes Myanmar; tremors felt in northeast, West Bengal, Bihar

Tremors were felt across West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and parts of Northeast India on Wednesday as an earthquake measuring 6.7 on the open-ended Richter scale hit Myanmar.

25 Aug 2016 1:50 AM

‘Voice of justice’ Mahasweta Devi dies

Eminent writer and social activist Mahasweta Devi, who served as the voice of the marginalised and oppressed, passed away on Thursday after prolonged illness. She was 90.

29 Jul 2016 6:19 AM

CPM sees worst defeat in 40 years

The CPI(M) headquarters at Alimuddin Street wore a deserted look on Thursday afternoon after the party suffered its worst defeat in past 40 years.

20 May 2016 5:26 AM

Left, Congress point fingers at each other

In what was viewed as a political master stroke before the Assembly polls turned into a major disappointment for both Left Front and Congress after its electoral alliance in West Bengal received a dru

20 May 2016 2:44 AM

West Bengal: 6-phase poll ends with 84 per cent voting

A month-long six-phase West Bengal Assembly election, which had started on April 4, was brought to an end on Thursday with the sixth and final phase polling.

06 May 2016 5:48 AM

78.25 per cent vote in 5th phase of West Bengal poll

The fifth phase of the six-phase Assembly elections, in 53 constituencies across the districts of South 24 Parganas, Kolkata South and Hooghly, was concluded peacefully on Saturday.

01 May 2016 2:33 AM

West Bengal: 9 poll violence cases, 186 arrests

01 May 2016 1:38 AM

Rahul Gandhi, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee share stage in unity show

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi and former West Bengal Chief Minister and CPI(M) leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee being garlanded by Congress- CPI(M) Candidate Deepa Dasmunshi and others at a joint election campaign rally in Kolkata. (Photo: PTI)

28 Apr 2016 7:22 AM

78 per cent turnout in phase 4 of West Bengal polls

26 Apr 2016 1:07 AM

BJP demands arrest of Trinamul Congress leaders

The BJP and CPI(M) on Sunday lodged separate complaints against the Trinamul Congress at the cyber crime department of Kolkata police and demanded the arrest of TMC spokesperson Derek O’Brien for tryi

25 Apr 2016 1:56 AM

‘CPM won’t succumb to politics of terror’

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Saturday asserted that his party would not “succumb to the politics of terror” by ruling Trinamul Congress and called upon Left workers to put up “greater r

24 Apr 2016 5:38 AM