On day one, around 50 people, mostly from the slums of Ward 61 of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, turned up ...

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a missionary who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and was feted across the world as “the saint of the Calcutta slums,” during her spring vacation before moving on to graduate school.

Mother Teresa was an Anglo-Indian nun who carried out most of her missionary work in India. We explore her life and history.

"Reclaim the Night" protests against patriarchal surveillance and unsafe nights for women, demanding justice and systemic ...

KOLKATA: A major fire broke out at a slum located at Topsia in eastern Kolkata on Friday, leaving several shanties totally gutted and the families residing there homeless. No casualty has been ...

It was October of the year 1981. I was fresh at JNU, feeling slightly homesick. This was before automatic inter-state dialing ...

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Amid the raging controversy over illegal Bangladeshi immigrants making it to the voters’ list of Delhi, the Delhi police launched a crackdown on rackets involved in the trafficking of Bangladeshi ...