The just launched Estée Lauder X Sabyasachi collaboration features 10 matte lipsticks in gilded cases

The just launched Estée Lauder X Sabyasachi collaboration features 10 matte lipsticks in gilded cases

For the Estée Lauder X Sabyasachi collaboration, the couturier curated the shades by drawing on individual threads from his aesthetic At first, it looks like a piece of jewellery. A gilded case with 24K gold-plated accents and the Bengal tiger embossed on top. Is it a pendant, a charm perhaps? Neither; what it is, is actually … Read more

Shah, Nadda arrive in Kolkata to discuss strategy for 2024 Lok Sabha polls

Shah, Nadda arrive in Kolkata to discuss strategy for 2024 Lok Sabha polls

Union Home Minister Amit Shah with BJP national President J.P. Nadda. File photo | Photo Credit: PTI Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president J.P. Nadda arrived here in the early hours of Tuesday, December 26, 2023 a party leader said. Also read | BJP devises micro-level plans to increase vote … Read more

Falguni and Shane Peacock show us around their flagship store in Kolkata, which is designed by Gauri Khan 

Falguni and Shane Peacock show us around their flagship store in Kolkata, which is designed by Gauri Khan 

Gauri Khan (centre) with Shane and Falguni Peacock Falguni Shane Peacock’s just launched flagship store in Kolkata is like a decadent box of confectionary. The facade feels like an intricately designed white fondant cake. Inside, a very edible looking replica of the Taj Mahal, fashioned out of tulle, feathers, handmade flowers and sponge, assembled atop … Read more

Gauri Khan shares designs secrets from her latest project, the Falguni Shane Peacock store in Kolkata 

Gauri Khan shares designs secrets from her latest project, the Falguni Shane Peacock store in Kolkata 

Gauri Khan (centre) with Shane and Falguni | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement For Gauri Khan, the little details matter. Which is probably why, two white urns, with 3D peacock motifs, are the source of much discussion at the Falguni Shane Peacock showroom in Kolkata. Gauri who has done the interiors for three of the FSP … Read more

Kolkata teenagers launch online platform for identifying youngsters’ mental health issues – ET HealthWorld

Kolkata teenagers launch online platform for identifying youngsters’ mental health issues – ET HealthWorld

Kolkata: Teenagers calling teenagers! As mental health issues continue to seep into our lives every day, the urgent need for an easily accessible data-rich platform for self-identifying triggers, symptoms and other facets becomes even more critical. Enter “Mentica”, a platform developed by a group of Kolkata teenagers to provide professional, well-researched, digitally safe and real-world … Read more

Five-day Durga Puja festival concludes in Kolkata with grand carnival on Red Road

Five-day Durga Puja festival concludes in Kolkata with grand carnival on Red Road

Goddess Durga idols at the puja carnival in Kolkata on Friday. | Photo Credit: PTI The Durga Puja festival in Kolkata concluded on Friday with a grand carnival on Red Road. About 100 big-budget Durga Puja committees participated in the event, with thousands gathering to watch the idols of goddess Durga being taken for immersion … Read more

Mamata returns to Kolkata, says foreign visit to attract investments to Bengal ‘very successful’

Mamata returns to Kolkata, says foreign visit to attract investments to Bengal ‘very successful’

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during a meeting with Lulu Group International Executive Director Ashraf Ali MA, in Dubai, UAE on September 22, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee returned to Kolkata on September 23 evening after a 12-day tour of Spain and the UAE, and said her trip … Read more

Kolkata’s iconic Peter Cat is on a list of the 150 Most Legendary Restaurants in the World. Here’s what to order

Kolkata’s iconic Peter Cat is on a list of the 150 Most Legendary Restaurants in the World. Here’s what to order

The familiar and comforting interiors at Peter Cat Over the weekend, Siddharth Kothari woke up to a message that made him smile. Iconic Peter Cat, one of the restaurants owned by his family, made it to a list of the 150 Most Legendary Restaurants in the World. The establishment, which opened its doors in Calcutta … Read more

North Bengal likely to get heavy rains till June 13; 2 killed in lightning strike in Kolkata

North Bengal likely to get heavy rains till June 13; 2 killed in lightning strike in Kolkata

A woman makes her way towards the destination during heavy rainfall, in Kolkata on Friday. | Photo Credit: ANI The sub-Himalayan districts of West Bengal are set to get a respite from the heatwave conditions with the likely advancement of the southwest monsoon, officials said on June 9. The southern districts of the State will … Read more

Between sips by Magandeep Singh: Looking at the bigger picture

Between sips by Magandeep Singh: Looking at the bigger picture

Over the past two decades and some, I have been invited to innumerable launches and have attended just as many. People in the writing space—and more recently, online influencers—are the first on any party list to be invited when a new place ups shutters. The idea is that when a new place opens, it needs … Read more