Editor’s Note: This story complements the Culinary Journeys TV series, airing monthly on CNN International. This month we follow Indian chef Gaggan Anand back to ...

For Barbara Voss, consul general of Germany in Kolkata, celebrating Christmas away from home has been about exploring the ...

On January 5, 2025, Korean Market 2.0 took place at the Park Street Patio in Kolkata, building on the success of the inaugural event in June 2024. The festival highlighted the growing fascination with ...

There was a time when December in Kolkata meant stacks of greeting cards piled at shops. Families would walk into New Market ...

Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) is a relatively young city, an amalgamation of villages (including one named Kalikata) formed after the English landed on the swampy shores of the Ganges in Bengal in the ...

Kolkata woke up to another horrific fire this morning. This time in a five-storey market complex. Several people are dead. The victims, mostly labourers working in the market, were sleeping. Once ...

The big clock, situated right at the top of the iconic New Market clock tower, that has seen some 100 years of shopping ...

Kolkata: Of eight major cities in India, Kolkata has emerged as the most affordable housing market, with only Ahmedabad being ...

Fresh-water fish is an important staple in West Bengali cuisine. At Kolkata's Lake Market, fishmongers sell a wide variety of locally caught species, including carp, cat fish and prawns. No chairs ...

Editor’s Note: This story complements the Culinary Journeys TV series, airing monthly on CNN International. This month we follow Indian chef Gaggan Anand back to ...