The Sept. 5 feast of St. Teresa of Kolkata — better known as Mother Teresa — was celebrated in a simple and somber manner at the Missionaries of Charity motherhouse in Kolkata, India, with hundreds of ...

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 ...

Messi’s GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) India Tour 2025 kicked off amid chaos on 13 December as fans at the Salt Lake stadium in ...

Engineers and engineering students attend a protest against the rape and killing of a trainee doctor at a government hospital, in Kolkata, India, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Bikas Das ...

NEW DELHI — Calcutta reverted to its indigenous name of Kolkata on Saturday, joining a growing number of Indian cities trying to shrug off their colonial legacy by bringing back their old monikers.