
Kolkata: A year into the rule of Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal has seen a sharp division among intellectuals who once backed the Trinamool Congress chief, with some feeling that she was 'autocratic' and 'intolerant of criticism', but most agreeing that she needed more time. Educationist Sunanda Sanyal, litterateur Mahasweta Devi, actor Kaushik Sen, writer Nabarun Bhattacharjee, Bengali poet Sankha Ghosh have been critical of the chief minister on various...

09:58 AM, May 20, 2012

Baroda beat Karnataka in Super Over Mumbai: Yusuf Pathan smashed a 5-ball 21, with two sixes and two fours, in the Super Over off Karnataka medium pacer Abhimanyu Mithun to power Baroda into the quarter-finals of Syed Mushtaq Ali Twenty20 tournament at the Brabourne Stadium here on Friday. Pathan's heroics enabled Baroda to rattle up 22 runs in six balls. They then restricted the opposition to a mere seven in...

11:34 AM, May 06, 2008