It will be his 48-hour trip to India, not a big length of time, but he is expected to spend his second day in Kolkata. It’ll be an honor for the city, but more than that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s forthcoming Kolkata visit is yet another firm indication that the state is back in reckoning […]
Gitanjali’s retail foray
Move over gold. All that glitters is now more of diamond than gold. Over past decade or so diamond jewelry has carved out a niche for itself, and now the niche is expanding like never before. Brands like Nakshatra and Asmi now have pan-Indian presence, and the range spreads from economically priced to high priced. […]
Looking after heritage
Kolkata abounds in heritage buildings that dot the city landscape mostly in the north and central part. Many of them like the Writers Building, the GPO or the Corporation Building are in regular use, and though the interiors have been infringed upon without adequate planning, the outside at least retains the old grandeur. Yet there […]
Kidderpore Mall
More on mall in the city. The government owns more than 36 bighas of land at Kidderpore’s Orphangunge behind Alipore Zoo and by the side of Tolly’s Nullah. This is the only city market that the land and land reforms department of the government owns. And now it has decided to develop the market into […]
Trouble at Big Bazaar
The place looks like a mini-jungle of two-footed men and women – shout, jostle, furtive looks, nonchalance all combined for good measure. It’s the place where customers are helped, pushed away in a corner that comes on the right just as you get inside the main entrance at Big Bazaar, Hiland Park. This Sunday evening […]
Reliance paves the way
That the realty investment in Kolkata has taken an upswing is already acknowledged, what with large projects of all hues coming up allover the city and new ones debuting every other day. But it took Reliance’s first-move initiative that the dilapidated KMC markets at vantage points in the city are now looked at with renewed […]
Deep sea-port off Bengal
Yet another example of proactive stance of bureaucrats and politicians from Bengal in favor of industrialization is the way in which the proposed deep-sea port off the coast is gradually taking shape. If news’ in the papers are to be believed, there has been at initial stages considerable opposition to the project at the center. […]
Enter Rolta
It didn’t take long for Rolta India to decide its Kolkata center. Perhaps theirs is the quickest decision to set foot in Kolkata among major IT companies. Rolta was approached by the state’s IT minister in February last with the offer of land to locate a facility in Kolkata. Early this week Rolta has disclosed […]
Things to come
While politicians brag about their ‘people’ power, which in many cases is nothing other than protecting their turf, the businessmen, who have the ‘money’ power, go about doing their bit in perfect silence. The recent winning of the rights to make over Park Circus market by the Reliance group is an example. Reliance won the […]
Flying in India
Opening Floodgates..! [Image source] Who pioneered low-cost airlines in India?Because of whom is there a rush of air passengers in India? The answer to both is Captain GR Gopinath. Until he arrived with his Air Deccan in the Indian aviation sky, the pie of lucrative air traffic was firmly in the hands of a few, […]
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