Kolkata has long carried the reputation of being a city of libraries, laboratories, observatories and public debate. Its ...

Kolkata, the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, is regarded as an artistic and cultural hub. Kolkata's colonial past can be found on every corner, but it's the combinations of that history ...

Kolkata Knight Riders kept their playoffs hopes alive with a four-wicket victory over Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier ...

When I moved from California to Calcutta in 2011, I would joke that I had merely exchanged one Cal for another. It was not technically true. Calcutta, the bustling metropolis where I was born, once ...

KOLKATA, India — At least 14 people, including two children, died in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata late Tuesday when a fire blazed through a six-story hotel in a congested neighborhood, ...

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 ...