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By end 2023, rail journey time for passengers between Kolkata and the three Barak valley districts of Assam via Dhaka, Bangladesh may be reduced to 15/16 hours only, if things run according to plan. A Kolkata-Agartala journey would take only around 10 hours, according to Railway authorities.

The strategy of the vice chancellor of Vishwa Bharati University, Bidyut Chakraborty, has crossed the line of decency. Chakraborty who has, for more than six months, been tirelessly working to evict Amartya Sen from the premises of Shantiniketan on April 20 shoot off yet another notice to Sen asking him to “vacate or face eviction”, in case he fails to vacate the 13 decimal plot of land by May 6. Nonetheless Sen on his part is determined to challenge the VU action in court. Chakraborty hardening his stance has made the intellectuals and academics to believe that VC should not have done this without endorsement of Narendra Modi who is the Chancellor of VU.

The Bharatiya Janata Party in Tamil Nadu has renewed its vows with the principal opposition party in the state, the AIADMK, with certain concessions from both sides. One, the BJP’s K Annamalai will put his ego on hold and for that, the AIADMK will consider Annamalai an equal partner and not a maverick like he was taken till yesterday.

India’s integration into the global value chains and favourable container pricing trends are making the country an ideal choice as an attractive ‘China plus one’ alternative.

Dr. Ranajit Guha, the most globally known Indian historian who introduced a new approach to history writing through his ‘subaltern studies’, passed away on April 28, less than a month before the Renaissance man was due to touch his 100th year on May 23. He was intellectually active till the end. Since 1999, he spent his last 23 years in his villa in Vienna, Austria.

On April 12, when Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar walked into 10, Rajaji Marg, residence of Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge in Delhi to discuss ways to bring opposition parties together, it marked the end of a long wait for the seasoned politician.

New Delhi: Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on Saturday declared himself innocent and asserted that he will not resign from his post.

New Delhi: Buyoed by two back to back victories, Delhi Capitals on Friday excuded confidence of keeping the winning momentum going when they take on Sunrisers Hyderabad in their next match at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, here on Saturday.

New Delhi: Newly-appointed Indian Hockey Chief Coach Craig Fulton has his task cut out and that is to prepare the team for the FIH Pro league and Asian Games. "There is lots of hockey in the next few months in the build-up to the Asian Games," he said on his arrival here on Friday morning.

Rajbanshis are in the news for the wrong reasons. Ahead of the rural polls in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress and BJP have stepped up their outreach in Kaliagunj after two lives both from Rajbanshi community were snuffed out, a teenage girl was allegedly gangraped and then killed and a youth fell to a bullet allegedly fired from the gun of a policeman.