The Ghoshal family of Bakshara village in the district of Howrah, now settled in Khidirpur, originally flourished in the trade of salt from the pre colonial times of Bengal. Yet they indulged in ...

If you are looking for one spot in Kolkata that is a seat of faith, your search is likely to end at the Kalighat Temple with its long queues of devotees. Over 200 years since it got its present form, ...

Lightweight Java library to manage unzipping of large files and data in AWS S3 without knowing the size beforehand and without keeping it all in memory or writing to disk.

Mahalaya is just a couple of weeks away and preparations to welcome the Goddess back are picking up pace. Had it not been for the unseasonal downpour, the air was beginning to smell like autumn. But ...

One of the biggest festivals of Bengal, Durga Puja celebrates the return of the Goddess to her paternal place with her four children from Kailasha. While the rest of India may celebrate the ...

The Daw family mansion is spread over 8 bighas on the Hooghly, including a 5-bigha temple-cum-ghat in the middle The Daw family Rasbari on the Hooghly riverfront near Belur Math Telegraph picture In ...

Plus: WLAN chips to drop in price; ICANN approves ‘Net framework; and more. An appeals court has reversed a lower-court ruling that Microsoft must distribute a version of Java endorsed by Sun. But the ...